HIAS Kenya is seeking a Protection Associate to provide comprehensive protection services to vulnerable refugee populations. This role supports HIAS’s protection programs through assessments, case management, referrals, and follow-up to ensure timely and appropriate services for clients in need. The position strengthens HIAS’s overall protection response by promoting and protecting the rights of the most vulnerable refugees, asylum seekers, and other forcibly displaced persons.
Essential Functions
- Legal Protection Case Management: Provide legal protection services using a protection case management approach, ensuring client-centered, rights-based, and survivor-informed legal assistance.
- Assessments: Conduct legal-focused protection assessments during intake to identify legal risks, documentation gaps, detention concerns, custody issues, and access-to-justice barriers.
- Case Handling: Open, manage, and follow up legal protection cases according to HIAS SOPs, ensuring clear case objectives, informed consent, confidentiality, and safe information sharing.
- Planning: Develop legal case plans with clients, outlining legal actions, referral needs, timelines, and risk mitigation measures.
- Counseling & Representation: Provide legal counseling and information on matters including child custody, protection for survivors of violence, civil documentation, asylum procedures, and arrest or detention cases.
- Follow-up & Referrals: Ensure regular client follow-up and facilitate safe, confidential referrals between legal services and other protection subsectors.
- Outreach: Provide legal services through Huduma Mtaani and other outreach points, integrating legal screening into broader protection case identification.
- Monitoring: Conduct border and detention monitoring to document risks and initiate individual or group case management interventions.
- Technical Guidance: Supervise protection monitors, ensuring they identify and document legal protection cases correctly using standardized tools.
- Capacity Building: Develop training curricula and deliver sessions for protection monitors, community structures, and partners on legal rights and referral pathways.
- Advocacy & Coordination: Participate in inter-agency coordination forums and contribute case data to support advocacy efforts aimed at improving the legal environment for refugees.
- Reporting: Prepare accurate weekly and monthly activity reports highlighting protection trends, challenges, and service gaps; monitor trends through data analysis for psychosocial panels.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Law.
- Must be an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
- Minimum of 1-2 years’ previous job experience related to refugee protection.
- Demonstrated experience working directly with refugees.
- Good knowledge of human rights and protection mainstreaming principles.
- Knowledge of Accountability to Affected Population (AAP), PSEA, and Anti-Fraud.
Remuneration
- Gross salary: KES 79,875 per month.
