UNRWA, the largest United Nations operation in the Middle East with over 30,000 staff working across five areas of operation, is looking for highly committed personnel wishing to make a change. If you are looking for a rewarding opportunity to make a tangible difference for one of the most vulnerable communities in the world, UNRWA would like to hear from you. The incumbent reports to the Protection Team Leader, Lebanon Field Office

Lead Protection Monitoring and Analysis: • Reviews and strengthen the Field's protection monitoring methodology, ensuring alignment with global best practices and UNRWA protection standards. • Oversees the planning, implementation, and follow-up of protection monitoring activities, in coordination with area teams, ensuring consistent data collection, verification, visualization, and trend analysis. • Manages and improves protection data tools and systems to ensure they are fit for capturing emerging risks, with a focus on legislative, policy, and structural barriers affecting Palestine refugees. • Produces risk assessments, vulnerability profiles, and protection trend reports to inform programming and advocacy efforts. Support Strategic Advocacy and External Engagement: • Drafts protection advocacy strategy for Lebanon field, in consultation with key stakeholders, including programmes. • Leads on the production of protection advocacy materials, including briefing notes, talking points, key messages, and analysis for the Front Office and external stakeholders. • Monitors political developments, public discourse, and media coverage relevant to protection risks, and identify advocacy opportunities in line with UNRWA's protection and humanitarian strategies. • Drafts and leads on Agency reporting to international human rights mechanisms, donors, and the UN system on protection-related issues, violations, and refugee access to services, and other requests for inputs as needed. • Conducts analysis and drafts related reports, briefs, talking points and advocacy messages on protection trends and context in Lebanon related to Palestine refugees, including in relation to specific thematic issues, policies and the law. • Supports to senior field management in carrying out protection advocacy interventions with relevant interlocutors, including by maintaining a record of interventions, drafting written interventions, note-taking at high-level meetings, and tracking and monitoring advocacy interventions over time, developing a knowledge management platform and issue tracker. • Supports field protection teams and UNRWA senior management in developing networks and contacts for the purposes of engaging in external advocacy initiatives. Coordinate Sector and Internal Protection Efforts: • Participate in protection sector coordination and maintain active engagement with relevant stakeholders and working groups, ensuring coherence and complementarity of protection efforts in the field. • Supports the implementation of the UNRWA advocacy framework and monitor progress against protection-related indicators. • Facilitates information-sharing and coordination across UNRWA programmes to support integrated protection responses and mainstreaming of protection principles. • Undertakes quarterly integrated assessments of all UNRWA installations according to protection, humanitarian principles and CP/GBV standards. Contribute to Protection Reporting: • Oversees the preparation of regular internal and external protection reports, including quarterly protection updates, situation reports, and thematic analysis. • Ensures that all reporting outputs are accurate, timely, and evidence-based, using visual tools such as dashboards, graphs, and presentations where relevant. • Contributes to the drafting of annual, mid-term, and ad hoc reports, as required. Context-Specific Functions in Lebanon: • Monitors and analyse the impact of legal frameworks, national policies, circulars, memos and other government on the rights of Palestine refugees in Lebanon, particularly regarding civil tion, movement restrictions, and access to services. • Identifies and escalates emerging protection risks linked to contextual dynamics, including displacement, armed violence, and socioeconomic vulnerability. • Ensures that UNRWA protection programming and responses are informed by realtime, field-based evidence and reflect the voices and needs of affected communities. • Supports emergency preparedness and response efforts as needed, including through supporting the drafting of situational reports, ng violations of rights, and impact of emergencies on the rights and wellbeing of Palestine refugees.