- Serves as a senior policy officer; advise on overall policy direction on specific issues; and, more generally, reviews and provides advise on a diverse range of policy issues related to safeguarding humanitarian principles and ensuring the effective delivery of humanitarian assistance and the linkages with other related areas (e.g. human rights);
- Prepares policy position papers for review;
- Monitors, analyses and reports on humanitarian developments, disaster relief/management programmes or emergency situations in assigned country/area; develops and maintains a “watch list” of countries with potential for humanitarian crisis;
- Leads and/or participates in large, complex projects, to include disaster assessment or other missions; coordinates international humanitarian/emergency assistance for complex emergency/disaster situations; ensures necessary support (e.g. staff, funding, specialized equipment, supplies, etc.); prepares situation reports to the international community, appraising of the situation to date and specifying unmet requirements of stricken countries;
- Assists in the production of appeals for international assistance; ensures the proper use and spending of donor contributions channelled through OCHA;
- Assists member states in capacity-building for handling emergency situations; developments country-specific indicators for countries of concern in collaboration with the area experts and ensures the subsequent monitoring of these indicators; recommends actions based on the analysis of pertinent information;
- Initiates and coordinates activities related to technical cooperation and technical assistance projects in disaster response and disaster response preparedness; formulates project proposals and relevant project documents; provides technical support to field work; reviews and clears project reports for submissions to governments;
- Analyzes and assists in introducing new technologies for disaster warning/management;
- Organizes and prepares studies on humanitarian, emergency relief and related issues; organizes follow-up work, including interagency technical review meetings to support policy development work and decision making on important issues; and ensures the implementation of recommendations emanating from relevant studies;
- Assists or leads, as appropriate, in the preparation of OCHA reports, studies, background papers, policy guidelines, correspondence, presentations, background papers, parliamentary documents, etc.; with respect to the latter, takes the lead in providing support and information to relevant councils or other entities on specific issues;
- Partners with other humanitarian agencies to plan and evaluate complex humanitarian and emergency assistance programmes; helps ensure that latest findings, lessons learned, policy guidelines, etc. are incorporated into these activities, including gender-related considerations;
- Establishes and maintains contacts with government officials, other UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, diplomatic missions, media, etc.; ensures appropriate mechanisms to facilitate collaboration and exchange of information both in and outside the UN system, including on early warning and contingency planning, etc.;
- Serves as the primary focal point on specific topics or policy-related issues; keeps abreast of latest developments, liaises with other humanitarian organizations, donors, etc., ensures appropriate monitoring and reporting mechanisms; provides information and advice on a range of related issues;
- Organizes and participates in work groups, meetings, conferences, consultations with other agencies and partners in humanitarian and emergency relief-related matters;
- May participate in planning and preparation of unit budget and work program;
- Provides leadership and work direction to assigned work team, and/or mentors and supervises the work of new/junior officers; and
- Performs any other duties as required.
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent degree) in political science, social science, public administration, international studies, economics, engineering, earth sciences or a related field. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian affairs, emergency preparedness, crisis/emergency relief management, rehabilitation, development, or related field, is required.
- Experience in drafting and reviewing high-level official correspondence and briefing materials for senior officials is required.
- Experience working in the office of a senior public official or similar is required.
- Experience working in a humanitarian field operation is desirable.
- Experience of working in a United Nations Special Political Mission or Peacekeeping Operation is desirable.
- English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the position advertised, fluency English is required. Knowledge of another UN official language is desirable.
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