HIAS Kenya seeks 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.
Key Responsibilities
Provide legal protection services using a protection case management approach, ensuring client-centered, rights-based, and survivor-informed legal assistance for refugees, asylum seekers, and other forcibly displaced persons.
Conduct legal-focused protection assessments as part of case intake to identify legal risks, documentation gaps, detention concerns, custody issues, and access-to-justice barriers.
Open, manage, and follow up legal protection cases in accordance with HIAS Protection Case Management SOPs, ensuring clear case objectives, informed consent, confidentiality, and safe information sharing.
Develop legal case plans in collaboration with clients, outlining legal actions, referral needs, timelines, responsible actors, and risk mitigation measures, and regularly review progress.
Provide legal counseling, information, and representation (where applicable) on child custody, violence against women/girls/men/boys, civil documentation, asylum procedures, and arrest/detention cases.
Ensure regular client follow-up on legal cases, providing timely feedback and adjusting case plans as circumstances evolve.
Facilitate safe and confidential referrals between legal services and other protection subsectors.
Provide legal services through outreach service delivery points, integrating legal screening into broader protection case identification.
Conduct border and detention monitoring, documenting legal protection risks and initiating interventions where rights violations are identified.
Maintain accurate legal case documentation within the data management system, ensuring compliance with data protection and ethical standards.
Provide technical guidance and supervision to protection monitors.
Review, analyze, and validate protection monitoring reports to identify emerging legal trends and translate findings into advocacy priorities.
Develop legal protection training curricula and deliver capacity-building sessions for partners and community structures.
Participate in inter-agency legal and protection coordination forums.
Support community-based legal protection interventions and assist in resource mobilization efforts through technical inputs and impact narratives.
Facilitate stakeholder training on refugee protection.
Reporting Duties
Prepare accurate weekly and monthly activity reports highlighting protection trends, challenges, and service gaps.
Monitor legal protection trends through data analysis and prepare summaries for presentation in psychosocial panels.
Produce monthly analyses on emerging protection issues to inform programming, referrals, and community awareness activities.
Qualifications and Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in law and an advocate to 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).
Knowledge in PSEA (Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) and Anti-Fraud.
Remuneration
Gross salary: KES 79,875 per month.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online via the HIAS recruitment portal at hias.hrmdirect.com.
