Registration and Identity Management Officer at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Duties

• Design, implement and monitor a registration/enrolment, identity management and digital identity strategies for populations of concern in compliance with global and regional protection and inclusion objectives and priorities, ensuring that registration standards are met and appropriate methodologies and technologies are implemented. 
• Provide technical support to staff on planned registration, identity management and digital identity activities. 
• Respond to field requests for technical support and capacity building in emergency and ongoing displacement situations, including development of registration, identity management and digital identity strategies, logistical planning, budgeting and resource management.
• Develop and disseminate operational guidance, instructions and capacity-development initiatives, in accordance with policy and guidance disseminated by the Data Service in Headquarters. 
• Design appropriate procedures and systems for assurance of quality registration data, and conduct regular data quality and audit checks to monitor the accuracy of data collected, as well as a tool for identification and prevention of fraud.
• Provide post-deployment support and maintenance of the UNHCR refugee systems applications as required. 
• Assist the country team to establish and strengthen internal capacity and/or that of government counterparts to manage registration and maintain population data. 
• Liaise with Digital Identity and Registration Section of the Global Data Service as necessary to facilitate registration, identity management and digital identity activities in the region/ country.
• Advocate with and support government authorities to establish and strengthen fair and efficient registration and digital identification procedures and systems and that POCs¿ identity documents or credentials are recognised for the purposes of accessing humanitarian, public and private sector services 
• Establish linkages with key partners to implement appropriate case and data management approaches for efficient, accountable and standardized targeting and delivery of assistance and other programming and protection needs.
• Support the operationalization and negotiation with government and UN partners related to interoperability of external systems with UNHCR refugee registration and identity management systems. 
• In close coordination and collaboration with relevant entities at the country, regional and headquarters level promote the inclusion of refugees and asylum-seekers into host States¿ population registers and digital identity systems and the registration of birth, marriages, deaths and other vital events of forcibly displaced persons in the host Government¿s civil registry. This can include promoting the inclusion of POCs in national development programs related to strengthening Civil Registration and Vital Statistics systems, national population register or digital identification systems. 
• Support the collection of reliable data and the availability of effective analysis relating to POCs¿ registration, identity management and digital identification at global, regional and country levels (as appropriate) including for the purposes of strategy development and monitoring and evaluation. 
• Monitor, document and report on registration activities at the regional/ country level, and report on the impact of support interventions to the management of operations. 

For positions in country operations only:

• Promote the prioritisation of registration, identity management and digital identity in operations across the country during the Annual Programme Review and emergency response.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Years of Experience / Degree Level

• For P3 6 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 5 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 4 years relevant experience with Doctorate degree