REINTEGRATION ASSISTANT - Conflict-Sensitive & Humanitarian-Intersection Reintegration (UG)

Call for Applications: Reintegration Assistant – Conflict-Sensitive & Humanitarian-Intersection Reintegration (UG)
Job Identification 17901
Apply Before 01/09/2026, 12:00 PM
Contract Type Special Short term ungraded (Up to 9 months)
Initial Contract Duration 3
Vacancy Type Call for Applications
Recruiting Type General Service
Grade UG

Job Description
BACKGROUND
Cameroon’s reintegration landscape is shaped by overlapping displacement crises and fragile community environments. In the Far North, years of Boko Haram/ISWAP violence have created large-scale internal displacement and placed intense pressure on host communities, while in the North-West and South-West, the ongoing conflict continues to uproot families and erode social cohesion. In the East and Adamawa, refugee inflows combine with internal mobility, adding pressure to already stretched local services.

Within this context, the EU-funded RRR programme supports the voluntary return of Cameroonians from abroad. Many returnees reintegrate into the same areas where IDPs, ex-associates, refugees, and crisis-affected populations are seeking assistance. Without careful planning, reintegration support risks reinforcing vulnerabilities, creating perceptions of inequity, or fuelling tensions between population groups. Reintegration programming must therefore consider contextual risks, including insecurity, limited services, fragile markets, and the potential need for relocation of vulnerable cases.

A growing concern is the way Cameroon’s crises are perceived or invoked in asylum procedures abroad. Understanding how migrants describe conflict and humanitarian conditions during asylum claims is essential for shaping responsible communication, preventing misuse of crisis narratives, and ensuring migrants receive accurate information on reintegration realities.

The RRR programme therefore requires a dedicated approach for conflict-sensitive, protection-aware, and humanitarian-informed reintegration. This includes clear guidance for delivering reintegration assistance in crisis-affected areas, pathways for engaging diverse affected groups (returnees, IDPs, ex-associates, host communities), tools to prevent harm, and recommendations to strengthen social cohesion.

PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
The Reintegration Assistant (Conflict-Sensitive & Humanitarian Intersection Reintegration) will:
- Analyse how reintegration under RRR interacts with crisis contexts, humanitarian caseloads (IDPs, refugees), ex-associates and host communities.
- Assess risks and opportunities of reintegration in crisis-affected areas (Far North, NW/SW, East).
- Develop Conflict- and Humanitarian-Sensitive Reintegration Guidelines, including Do-No-Harm, social cohesion, and equitable support frameworks.
- Identify intervention pathways targeting different affected groups.
- Examine the feasibility of voluntary relocation for returnees from high-risk zones.
- Analyse how Cameroonian asylum seekers abroad use crisis narratives and produce communication recommendations for the RRR awareness strategy.
Produce a consolidated analytical report and practical tools to guide the implementation of conflict-sensitive reintegration under RRR.

Responsibilities
A. Conflict & Humanitarian Context Analysis
- Conduct a contextual analysis of reintegration environments across the Far North, NW/SW, and East regions.
- Map humanitarian actors, DDRR structures, protection actors, clusters, INGOs, and local authorities.
- Identify tension risks between:
- Returnees and idps;
- Returnees and ex-associates;
- Returnees and refugee-hosting communities;
- Return