UNFPA: Protection Consultant

JOB DESCRIPTION

Background:

UNFPA has been implementing its 7th Country Programme in Türkiye covering 2021- 2025. UNFPA Türkiye Country Office, for fifty years, has been working on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and rights including promoting mother and child health, empowering young people fulfill their potential, promoting gender equality, combating against gender based violence (GBV) and enhancing collection, use, and dissemination of development data in collaboration with state institutions, non-governmental organizations, private sector and universities.

Since 2011 UNFPA Türkiye Country Office has been also supporting the humanitarian response efforts of Türkiye on promoting SRH and mitigating the risks of GBV as well as response to GBV in Türkiye.

Türkiye continues to be the host of the largest number of refugees in the world. Although significant progress has been made to ensure the protection of refugees in Türkiye, particularly some vulnerable groups have continued to struggle with protection risks and access to basic rights and services, as highlighted in the current United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) and the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP).

In line with UNFPA’s mandate and global and regional frameworks, UNFPA Türkiye supports the provision of inclusive and survivor-centered health and protection services to the refugees in vulnerable situations, regardless of their nationality, age, sex, legal or health status, or occupation. This includes refugees living with HIV, individuals engaged in harmful or informal economies, and those further marginalized due to diverse and intersecting vulnerabilities that increase their risk of gender-based violence (GBV) and limit their access to essential services.

UNFPA Türkiye has been supporting protection services; tailored protection information and follow-up, legal counselling, individual and group psychosocial support by trained psychologists, and GBV-focused case management by social service professionals through refugee support service units that serve Syrians under temporary protection, non-Syrians who are international protection applicants or status holders, and other refugees with different legal statuses.

These refugee support service units focus on GBV survivors and those at risk of GBV, including people affected by conflict-related sexual violence, early and forced marriage, human trafficking, or stigma linked to health status or social circumstances.

UNFPA continues to support three refugee support service units and one mobile team during June 2025 – May 2026 period. To strengthen coordination, ensure quality of programme implementation, and support capacity building of service providers UNFPA Türkiye plans to recruit a Protection Consultant to support the project.

Job Purpose:

Overall the consultant will be responsible for providing technical support to; sustain and improve protection service delivery, strengthen service provider/hotline/outreach capacities, high-quality donor reporting and proposals preparations, and operationalize field modalities while embedding Accountability to Affected Population (AAP)/Complaint and Feedback Mechanisms (CFM), safeguarding, data protection, and “do no harm” principles to the relevant frameworks.

How you can make a difference:

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person”s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan ), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices.

These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover…