Senior Operations Officer

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), based on its Statute of 1950, the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and subsequent resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, is mandated to provide international protection, assistance, and solutions to refugees and other categories of persons such as returnees and internally displaced people. UNHCR’s Mandate is also to prevent and reduce statelessness. The “Global Compact on Refugees” (GCR) affirmed in 2018 by the United Nations General Assembly and its annexed “Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework” (CRRF) highlight the need to promote the self-reliance of refugees and the need for interventions targeting and benefitting simultaneously refugees and host populations. The CRRF specifically highlights the role of the private sector in refugee hosting areas as an effective and sustainable provider of services, the main creator of jobs, opportunities, and growth facilitator. 

As, about 114 million people are today forcibly displaced worldwide and as protracted refugee situations present unprecedented development challenges, IFC and UNHCR have set up a Joint Initiative aiming at enabling sustainable private sector solutions, including through IFC investment transactions and advisory projects, in forced displacement contexts. This approach will target and benefit both the forcibly displaced and their host communities. 
 
The Joint Initiative’s overarching goals are two-fold:  

Duties and Accountabilities:

Contribute decisively to the implementation of the IFC-UNHCR Joint Initiative. This will include the following activities:

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