External Outreach :Emergency Specialist (Coordinator) -P3/NOC, Rapid Response Rosters, Eastern and Southern Africa Region

Contract

This is a P-3 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 5 years of experience, depending on education. More about P-3 contracts and their salaries.

Seeking external candidates only

Contract Type: Temporary Appointment (TA) or Consultancy

Duration: 3 months to 364 days

Location: Countries based in Eastern and Southern Africa

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

Since two years, countries in the ESA region have experienced an alarming increase in the number of new, or re-emerging humanitarian emergencies, including public health (including Ebola, Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, wild poliovirus, and Cholera), armed conflicts and natural disasters emergencies.

UNICEF ESAR has prioritized the critical need to support countries to rapidly scale up capacity to prevent, mitigate, and manage ongoing and anticipated emergencies as well as to enhance capacity for preparedness and response to these emergencies.

Purpose

The purpose of this external announcement is to attract suitable Emergency Specialist (Coordinator) candidates interested in working in any of the countries within UNICEF's East and Southern Africa region to respond to emergencies for the next 36 months.

The countries within each region are listed on the following website: Where we work | UNICEF

How can you make a difference?

Key activities & duties

Emergency Preparedness and response:

• Support CO to adopt adequate emergency preparedness and response measures through the development and updating of EPP, country contingency plans, and follow up on compliance of CO with the implementation of agreed MPAs.
• Dissemination/review of regional early warning.
• Coordination of emergency preparedness and response between ESARO sections and contribute to regional and cross boarder coordination foras for emergency situations including the regional Inter-Agency Standing Committee (RIASCO) and, SADC platforms.
• Provides advice to the country office in the implementation of emergency preparedness measures in the field to strengthen preparedness and response mechanisms in the country faced with impending emergencies.

• Develops and maintains databases on country/regional information and ensures the flow of information and communication crucial for the planning and implementation of emergency preparedness and response management.

• Provide dedicated support to the preparation, documentation, and follow-up of emergency management mechanism within the RO including Emergency Management Team, Humanitarian Action Group, and other mechanisms as required.

• Plans, organizes, and conducts training for CO staff capacity building in emergencies preparedness and response. Assists in developing and conducting emergency training courses. Provides training and/or briefing, as required.

  Emergency and resilience Project

• Participates in the implementation of plans of action and work plans for emergency and resilience projects.

• Support Risk informed programming, resilience, and Humanitarian development nexus regional work and support for CO based on programmatic needs, and regional resilience priorities. This can include also an analysis of key risks

• Lead reporting and preparation of briefing including maintenance of corporate action point from regional emergency coordination fora as well as for donor reporting.

• Coordinate with ESARO program sections and management to mobilize donor response and recovery/rehabilitation-related funding, including annual or multi-annual humanitarian appeals and documents (e.g., pitch documents, HAC, ...).
• Maintains coordination, communication, consultation, and liaison with regional bodies, UN agencies, NGOs, donors.
• In coordination with senior resilience specialist, participates in humanitarian and resilience-related forum and keeps management informed of all humanitarian developments in the country in terms of policies, strategy, situation developments, potential threats and opportunities/issues in partnership.

Key Expected Results

• Support and contribute to effective and strategic coordination of support to Country Offices undertaking humanitarian action. Provide dedicated support to the preparation, documentation, and follow-up of emergency management mechanism within the RO including Emergency Management Team, Humanitarian Action Team, and other mechanism as required.
• Support the preparation of all regional reports, donor reports, advocacy materials, briefing notes, budget reviews, regional analyses, and regional office work planning exercises.
• Provide technical and quality assurance to Southern African sub region planning, coordination and reporting
• Support resource mobilization for humanitarian action by consolidating information on various humanitarian contexts, priority humanitarian needs, UNICEF and partners' ongoing response and priority resource needs, and develop clear communication products for internal and external dissemination.

• Support Risk informed programming, resilience, and Humanitarian development nexus regional work and support for CO based on programmatic needs, and regional resilience priorities. This can include also an analysis of key risks and monitor emerging humanitarian trends and potential socio-political instability in the region and proposed programmatic adaptation guided by the resilience specialist in HARP.

• Support triggering of early action in response to early warning information and support Country Offices in undertaking enhanced preparedness actions.

• Ensure UNICEF representation in key technical-level inter-agency fora related to emergency preparedness and response. Support management engagement with high-level mechanisms by ensuring appropriate analysis is available.
• Support country-specific, regional, and inter-agency preparedness processes by tracking progress, providing support to implementation of key actions and engagement with inter-agency processes at the regional level.
• Support quality assurance and monitoring of preparedness and humanitarian response planning and implementation including analysis of humanitarian performance monitoring data and situation reports.

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

Education-

• • Advanced University degree in International Relations, Public Administration/Public Policy, Humanitarian Affairs, Development, Social Sciences, or a related technical field.

Work Experience-

• • Five years professional work experience at national and international levels in humanitarian response. Preferred experience in preparedness, complex emergencies, including experience in early recovery in the East and southern Africa region.
  • Excellent written reporting skills.
  • Developing country work experience required, emergency experience in the Southern Africa region /Horn of Africa ‘is highly desirable.
  • Specialized training/experience in emergency response management is required.

Language Requirement:-

• Fluency in verbal and written English and/or French (depending on the country office's official language). Knowledge of another UN language or a local language is an asset

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: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)

• Works Collaboratively with others (1)

• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)

• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)

• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)

• Drive to achieve impactful results (1)

• Manages ambiguity and complexity(1)

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.

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:

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

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.