Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer

Organizational Setting

The Regional Team for Resilience, Emergency and Rehabilitation for West Africa (REOWA), within the Subregional Office coordinates and serves as liaison between the different FAO country offices in West Africa/Sahel and the Dakar-based humanitarian aid network of the subregion. REOWA also provides strategic resilience assistance to FAO's country representations in the subregion. REOWA allows FAO to liaise and coordinate with the large humanitarian and resilience community based in Dakar, including the Subregional Offices of the United Nations' agencies based in Dakar, the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for the Sahel, the International Federation of the Red Cross, Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET) donors and subregional institutions such as the Permanent Interstate Committee of the Sahel Drought Control (CILSS), the permanent secretariat of the G5 Sahel (G5 Sahel). REOWA covers the 15 Members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in addition to Chad, Cameroon and Mauritania.

In line with FAO's Strategic Programme 5 (SP5) "To increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises" and FAO's Regional Initiative 3 (RI3) "Building Resilience in Africa's Drylands", REOWA is supporting FAO programme on strengthening the resilience vulnerable communities' livelihoods through better prevention and mitigation approaches, better preparedness and better response to recurrent food, nutrition and pastoral crises and through the promotion of information sharing for informed decisions and actions.

Reporting Lines

The Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer reports to the Senior Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer, Head of the Subregional Team for Resilience in West Africa and the Sahel (REOWA) and works under the overall guidance of the Subregional Coordinator, (SFW), in close collaboration with the FAO's Regional Office for Africa (RAF), the FAO Country Representations in the Sahel and West Africa, technical divisions, OER, NSAG and partners.

Technical Focus

Support to implementation of FAO's resilience agenda at global, regional, subregional and/or country level.

Key Results

Technical and policy expertise to support the planning, development and implementation of programmes, projects, products and services in accordance with FAO’s Strategic Objectives.

Key Functions

• Plans and leads components of multidisciplinary teams, coordinates, and/or participates in Organization-wide committees, and provides technical expertise on international committees and working groups;

• Develops and updates the supporting approach, methodology, tools, systems/databases, policies and/or standards to support programme delivery and specific objectives, services and outputs of Division teams focusing on (i) humanitarian policy, interagency collaboration and mobilization of emergency resources; (ii) response, food chain crisis, special operations, level 3 emergency preparedness, early warning and support to transition; (iii) and/or programming to integrate resilience into FAO planning at all levels;

• Develops position papers, proposals and/or policy briefs to support humanitarian policy development, coordination and liaison with international partners such as the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), NGOs and other humanitarian groups involved in emergency and recovery activities;

• Undertakes FAO emergency needs assessment activities and missions, conducts food and nutrition security assessments and analysis, coordinates in-country early warning alerts and further coordination with all partners;

• Provides technical support to ongoing operational emergency and recovery projects and programmes and related capacity development in countries, and regional and subregional offices supported with Standard Operating Procedures, surge mechanisms and Level-3 capable response systems;

• Promotes best practices and provides technical support/services to Decentralized Offices, in collaboration with Regional Offices, to facilitate emergency programming, resource mobilization and integration of emergency and development work in countries, as well as to provide capacity during critical phases of emergencies;

• Monitors, promotes and coordinates resource mobilization activities including corporate appeals, donor macro grants, CERF/SFERA submissions, annual appeals and midyear reviews, as well as collaborates with countries and Regional Offices to facilitate resource mobilization through project and programme formulation;

• Maintains and updates FAO emergency information systems, crisis communications, information and advocacy, as well as providing up-to-date information for reporting, audits, evaluations and inputs to FAO governing body documents;

• Performs other related duties as required.

Specific Functions

• Coordinates the pastoralism GLONET project (GCP/SFW/516/EC), monitors the implementation, including financial execution, of the project and support FAO Country Offices and stakeholders on project results achievement;

• Provides support for the representation of project to the donor and maintains and facilitates transparent and regular communication with partners of the project;

• Ensures the coordination of the project and respects for internal deadlines approved according to the Implementation plans developed by the Project Managers in each country;

• Ensures and supports the integrated implementation of the project activities and consistency between different countries and global GLONET project by coordinating the multicountry project team;

• Supports the development of the Feed Balance Sheet in coordination with CILSS and AGRHYMET (Agriculture, Hydrology, Meteorology) Regional Center in West Africa and the Sahel and its integration into the Cadre Harmonise;

• Coordinates with ongoing programmes at G5 Sahel level (PIP Pastoralism) for which FAO is lead agency, CILSS (PRAPS1 and 2), ECOWAS (PREDIP);

• Provides technical support, assistance, back-stopping, reviews of documents, procurement requests and facilitates the implementation of pastoralism, animal health and production and conflict sensitive projects in West Africa and Sahel that support SFW, ECOWAS and the Regional Animal Health Centre;

• Provides technical support in formulating integrated policies supporting pastoralism and conflict mitigation, programmes, concept notes, frameworks, action plans, etc., in West Africa and Sahel including reviewing reports for technical competence;

• Supports the preparation and/or implementation of livestock, animal health and production, farmer field school, or pastoralist trainings in West Africa and Sahel;

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CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimum Requirements

• Advanced university degree in agriculture, food security, economics, natural resources, rural development, business administration and management, international relations or other field related to the work of the Organization;

• Seven years of relevant experience in public and/or private sectors related to programming, planning and technical cooperation in food and agriculture, including experience in developing countries, especially in countries that are vulnerable to disaster or other emergency risks;

• Working knowledge of English and French.

Competencies

• Results Focus

• Teamwork

• Communication

• Building Effective Relationships

• Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

Technical/Functional Skills

• Work experience in more than one location or area of work, particularly in field positions is desirable;

• Extent and relevance of experience at international level in formulating policy and programming managing field operations;

• Extent and relevance of experience in identifying and preparing programme strategies and policy position on humanitarian and transition contexts, at both global and country levels;

• Extent of knowledge of international humanitarian architecture, including agencies, NGOs, and other partners;

• Extent and relevance of experience in needs assessments, cluster coordination, UN consolidated appeal process and/or emergency operations for Level 3 emergencies;

• Extent and relevance of experience in rehabilitation and humanitarian policies development, programme formulation and implementation;

• Experience in response management and surge support coordination.