Emergency Officer, P-2, EMOPS, NYHQ, USA #126089 (Temporary Assignment, 364 days)

Contract

This is a P-2 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 2 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 108,633 USD and 147,551 USD.

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up.

For every child, hope

The position is situated in the Office of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS), within the Director’s Office Planning Unit and under the Emergency Specialist (Reporting/Global Appeals Manager).

UNICEF’s Office of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS) coordinates the Organization’s global support to humanitarian action, enabling country offices to scale up their emergency preparedness and response, effectively deliver humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable and protect children from violence, abuse, and exploitation.

The position will support the EMOPS Director’s Office, specifically in the areas of data management, communications as well as in delivering on its corporate reporting accountabilities. Under the supervision of and in regular consultation with the supervisor, support reports and data visualization in support to the delivery of humanitarian Action annual reports, ensuring end to end process for the development of UNICEF’s Global Humanitarian Action for Children appeal, as well as regular data aggregation of country humanitarian responses throughout the year for better accountability and fundraising through UNICEF’s humanitarian appeal (Humanitarian Action for Children) and for National Committee, donor, partner, and other external audiences.

How can you make a difference?

The incumbent is critical for generating clear and concise information on UNICEF’s humanitarian action at the global level. This will strengthen its efficiency and effectiveness by better measuring the scope of UNICEF’s response, and what results have been achieved – and gaps remain – with funding to date.

P****urpose of the job:

(a) assist in coordination, data consolidation and analysis in support of UNICEF’s Global Humanitarian Action for Children appeal.

(b) regularly generate global aggregation of data to inform UNICEF’s ongoing performance in humanitarian action, which is currently only completed once annually for the launch of the Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) appeal.

(c) support the development of corporate humanitarian reports, including the Humanitarian Annual Results report (HARR) and the Humanitarian Action Snapshot (HAS), among others.

(d) support allocation, tracking and utilization analysis of global humanitarian thematic funding for corporate reporting and resource mobilization.

(e) support development of additional products for use by EMOPS and UNICEF management for high level events, as well as for /resource mobilization and advocacy with donors.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

1. Assist in the coordination and ensure end to end process for the development of UNICEF’s Global Humanitarian Action for Children appeal and the global aggregation of data (programme results and targets; financial) across humanitarian appeal countries (at the time of humanitarian appeal launch and throughout the year);
2. Assist in the development of corporate reporting products, specifically support the review, the analysis, the computation, quality assurance and fact checking of humanitarian data / indicators for Humanitarian Annual Results report (HARR) and the Humanitarian Action Snapshot (HAS);
3. Lead the management and enhancement of the HAC and eSitRep platform, the GHTF real-time dashboard, and other tools and system to monitor on performance on Humanitarian action;
4. Produce and maintain documents for regular tracking and reporting on Global Humanitarian Thematic Funding (GHTF).
5. Support the Director's Office as needed.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• First university degree in one of the following fields: social sciences, public administration, law, public health, nutrition, international relations, business administration, communication or other related disciplines.
• A minimum of two years of relevant professional experience at the national and/or international levels in programme/project development, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation or administration.
• Developing country work experience is desirable.
• Training/experience in emergency response management is highly desirable.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.