Hardship Level (not applicable for homebase

A (least hardshi

Family

Internship

20241101

November 13, 2024

Background information/Organizational Context
Thailand is not a signatory to the 1951 Convention/1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and does not have a domestic protection framework in place for asylum seekers and refugees. Consequently, urban refugees and asylumseekers who reside outside of camps do not have a legal right to stay in Thailand are treated as illegal migrants, placing them at risk of arrest and detention.
In the absence of a national asylum system in Thailand, UNHCR Thailand provides various protection services to meet the needs of urban refugees and asylumseekers through the provision of emergency/lifesaving health care, legal and social counseling, psychosocial support, supporting access to education (including Thai language classe, financial and other material support to refugees and asylumseekers, including in detention. To that end, the Protection Intern will be tasked with providing weekly protection counselling to persons of concern as well as supporting the protection unit in a variety of tasks, including data entry, filing and archiving documentation and the referral of cases to appropriate services.
The Protection Intern is expected to work from the UNHCR office in Bangkok or other locations within Bangkok.

Duties and Responsibilities:
The candidate will be part of the Protection Unit, under the overall supervision of the Protection Officer and direct supervision of the Associate Protection Officer.

Primary scope of assignment:
• Support data entry project in the registration/proGres database, including filing of individual documents in online storage platforms; document review and classification; translation or medical, civil registration and other documents from Thai to English; extraction and analysis of large data sets using Excel application.
• Provide weekly protection counselling to urban refugees and asylumseekers in person at the Bangkok Refugee Centre with guidance from the Protection Unit;
• Refer refugees and asylumseekers to UNHCR protection colleagues or to partner organizations to provide appropriate protection services;
• Support Protection Unit in carrying out Communication with Communities activities;
• Perform other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications and Experience:
• The candidate must be a recent graduate (those persons who completed their studies within one year of applyinor current student in a graduate/undergraduate school programme from a university or higher education facility accredited by UNESCO. The candidate must have completed at least two years of undergraduate studies in a field relevant or of interest to the work of the Organization.
• Strong skills with Excel and other Microsoft applications, as well as Kobo Toolbox are highly desirable.
• Knowledge of refugee law, international human rights law, and domestic immigration law is desirable.
• Previous experience in humanitarian work is desirable.
• Excellent knowledge of English and Thai (reading and writin.

Standard Job Description

Required Languages

Thai

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Additional Qualifications

Skills

Education

Certifications

Other information

This position doesn’t require a functional clearance

HomeBased

No