UN Jobs – Researcher – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

UN Jobs – Researcher – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Job Title:   Researcher

Organisation: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

 

About UNHCR:

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a UN agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country. UNHCR was created in 1950 to address the refugee crisis that resulted from World War II. The 1951 Refugee Convention established the scope and legal framework of the agency’s work, which initially focused on Europeans uprooted by the war. Beginning in the late 1950s, displacement caused by other conflicts, from the Hungarian Uprising to the decolonization of Africa and Asia, broadened the scope of UNHCR’s operations. Commensurate with the 1967 Protocol to the Refugee Convention, which expanded the geographic and temporal scope of refugee assistance, UNHCR operated across the world, with the bulk of its activities in developing countries.

 

Job Summary:  The purpose of consultancy is to assess and document the protracted refugee situation in Uganda, a member of the Great Lakes Region where both risk of statelessness arising from long exile and potential for durable solutions have been pre-identified.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Conduct qualitative interviews (key-informant, focus group discussions where feasible) on matters of citizenship, civil registration, immigration status, statelessness, and refugee/forced displacement matter with refugees, government officials at central and local level, civil society and other key-stakeholders in line with the research toolkit and methodology developed.
• Conduct initial analysis of the information collected during principally qualitative data collection and presenting in an adequate manner.
• Administer survey questions to refugees and other persons of concern to UNHCR.
• Perform any other duties as assigned

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal applicant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Researcher job should hold a Bachelor’s degree in law, social sciences or related field. Required.
• At least 10 years’ experience working in research, data collection or related field is required.
• Research expertise and experience in the Great Lakes region – and of Uganda as a country of asylum is required.
• Knowledge of the relevant international and regional frameworks pertaining to refugees’ rights and obligations, rights of refugees and statelessness is required.
• Experience in conducting key informant interviews and facilitating focus group discussions and qualitative data collection is required.
• Analytical Thinking
• Innovation and Creativity
• Technological Awareness
• Ability to conduct initial analysis of the data collected and present the preliminary findings in a well-articulated and coherent manner in English to the Senior Research Consultant is required.
• Understanding on issues related to data ownership, data confidentiality and data protection and data requirement is required.
• Analytical skills and experience with relevant qualitative data analysis tools and processes is required.
• Good command of data protection principles and practices, ability to apply organization-specific policies is required.
• Strong communication skills with strong interpersonal and negotiation skills are required.

 

Desirable

• Fluency in Kiswahili or Juba Arabic desirable
• Furthermore, experience in data collection, storage, and processing, including experience with Kobo Toolbox and tablet-based data collection is desirable.
• Experience in collection of quantitative data is desirable

 

How to Apply:

All candidates who wish to join the United Nations in this capacity should apply online at the link below.

 

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Deadline: 19^th August 2021

 

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