Protection Associate

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HIAS

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 0-2 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: KES 79,875 KES / monthly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Location: Kenya
GBV / VAWG
POSITION SUMMARY:
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.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
  • 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)
  • Ensure regular client follow-up on legal cases, providing timely feedback on case status, court processes, referrals, and outcomes, and adjusting case plans as circumstances evolve.
  • Facilitate safe and confidential referrals between legal services and other protection subsectors, ensuring continuity of care and coordinated response.
  • Provide legal services through Huduma Mtaani and other outreach/service delivery points, integrating legal screening into broader protection case identification and tracking.
  • Conduct border and detention monitoring, documenting legal protection risks, and initiating individual or group case management interventions where rights violations are identified.
  • Maintain accurate legal case documentation and case notes within the data management system, ensuring compliance with data protection and ethical standards.
  • Provide technical guidance and supervision to protection monitors, ensuring they identify, refer, and document legal protection cases correctly using standardized tools.
  • Review, analyze, and validate protection monitoring reports to identify emerging legal protection trends and translate findings into case referrals, advocacy priorities, and program adjustments.
  • Develop legal protection training curricula and deliver capacity-building sessions for protection monitors, community structures, and partners on legal rights, referral pathways, and case management principles.

Reporting
  • 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 & 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.
  • Knowledge in PSEA and Anti-Fraud.

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