Early Recovery & Livelihoods Cluster Coordinator

Volunteering Crisis & Emergency Response

Overview

Coordinate early recovery and livelihoods efforts for crisis recovery.

You have:

• Minimum 5 years working at the national and/or international level in large organizations with dispersed operations and/or in the public and private sector.
• Experience working within the UN system, preferably in an operational UN Agency or other international development organization.
• Desirable experience in humanitarian response and recovery operations (complex emergencies and/or natural disasters).
• Able and willing to live and work in harsh and potentially hazardous conditions, involving physical hardship and little comfort.
• Cultural awareness and stamina required to adapt to the working environment in North East Nigeria.

Contract

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Early Recovery is an essential component of the humanitarian crisis response. Early Recovery addresses recovery needs during the humanitarian phase, using humanitarian mechanisms in accordance with development principles. It is an integrated, inclusive, and coordinated approach to gradually turn the dividends of humanitarian action into sustainable crisis recovery, resilience building and development opportunities. Emergency relief addresses peoples’ survival and basic well-being. Early Recovery restores people’s capacities and supports communities’ first steps to recover from the crisis. The Global Cluster for Early Recovery (GCER) advocates for humanitarian actors to integrate approaches into their humanitarian work, where possible, that will mitigate the impact of a future crisis on a community, and to work closer to development actors. The prevailing insecurity conditions have resulted in more than 1,8 million people internally displaced in six states of the North East, including more than 191,000 Nigerian refugees who crossed the border to neighboring Cameroon, Chad, and Niger thereby placing considerable pressure on available means of livelihoods in the region. T

An estimated 4.6 million people are food insecure and an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Level 3 is expected in the Northeastern states under current state of emergency and insecurity. The provision of social services, particularly health services and education, has been affected.

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Early Recovery Coordinator or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UN Volunteer Early Recovery & Livelihoods Cluster Coordinator will:

• In close collaboration with the representative of the Ministry of Return, Reconstruction and Recovery (MRRR) of Borno state, ensure effective coordination of all relevant actors by: a. Regularly convening partners for coordination and information exchanges b. Regularly updating an information database and platform ensuring the capturing and sharing of information on interventions by all relevant actors c. Ensuring that all partner interventions and service delivery are driven by the Response Plan and strategic priorities identified in conjunction with the MRRR. d. Developing mechanisms to eliminate duplication of service delivery. e. Ensure appropriate links with national and local authorities, State institutions, local civil society and other relevant actors in support of coordination and information exchange. f. Promote early recovery and livelihoods efforts to strengthen the capacity of the national authorities and civil society, including staff and cluster partners

• Lead and / or support the development of strategies and implementation plans for reconstruction and recovery by: a. Developing sectoral plans, objectives and indicators that directly support return, recovery and reconstruction of the North East. b. Identifying and establishing contact with all relevant stakeholders, including representatives of affected populations and ensure utilization of participatory and community-based approaches in sectoral needs assessments, analysis, planning, monitoring and response c. Applying and adhering to common standards and guidelines. d. Clarifying funding requirements, helping to set priorities, and agreeing cluster contributions to the HC’s overall humanitarian funding proposals.

Professionalism

Communication

Teamwork

Planning and Organization

Accountability

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Judgment/Decision-making

working at the national and/or international level in large organizations with dispersed operations and/or in the public and private sector; • working within the UN system, preferably in an operational UN Agency or other international development organization; • humanitarian response and recovery operations (complex emergencies and/or natural disasters) is desirable.

Nigeria a unique country and North East Nigeria is a unique (humanitarian) operation. It provides for an interesting and enriching environment, but also requires a mature level of cultural awareness, as well as more stamina and commitment than elsewhere to make life comfortable and affordable. Therefore, flexibility and the ability and willingness to live and work in harsh and potentially hazardous conditions, involving physical hardship and little comfort, are essential. In Maiduguri, which is the duty ststaion, there are UN accessed hotels and also the humanitarian hub.

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