Humanitarian Affairs Officer, NOB, Brasilia, Brazil

Contract

This is a NO-2 contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. More about NO-2 contracts.

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, results

UNICEF’s response to the needs of children and families in humanitarian contexts as the migration and the Yanomami crisis, or emergencies like heavy rains and floods, focuses on ensuring access to essential services and programmes in a coordinated manner with the government, the civil society organizations and other UN agencies. UNICEF aims at strengthening the capacity of actors responsible for providing quality protection, education, health/nutrition, water and sanitation services (including Government, non-governmental and community organizations), social policy, as well as providing communication for development messages and activities, ensuring accountability to affected populations, so that they are fully equipped to assist children on the move and their families. UNICEF advocates for the rights and voices of children and women as an integral component of the response.

The Northern states of Amazonas, Pará and Roraima in Brazil is hosting over 50,000 Venezuelan migrants and refugees (29% of whom are children) were severely impacted by the pandemic, with overstretched social services, restricted resources and precarious health systems capacities. The Yanomami indigenous crisis added pressure to public systems in Roraima and demand support and monitoring of the situation.

How can you make a difference?

Under the direct supervision of the Emergency Manager, overall guidance of the Deputy Representative and technical support of the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, implement country office emergency preparedness and response. The Humanitarian Affairs Officer will be responsible for the technical contribution to the development, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the disaster risk reduction and humanitarian interventions to advance the survival and well-being of children and mothers and affected communities in emergency situations.

Key expected results:

1. Timely and thorough monitoring and analysis of emergency-prone situations and contribution to early warning and enhancing emergency preparedness.

2. Effective data collection and analysis regarding ongoing emergency responses, timely inputs provided to guide the operations. Supports constant flow of information and communication crucial for the planning and implementation of emergencies responses.

3. Contribute to emergency response plans elaboration, revision and to updating the Emergency Preparedness Platform. Emergency preparedness and response plans address gender-age issues.

4. Provide technical support to zone offices involved in the migration response and other emergencies in the field of humanitarian performance monitoring, enabling them to increasingly engage in and lead monitoring and evaluation processes.

5. Lead on Multi-partner Inter-sectoral rapid needs assessment with Focus on Children (ISNAC), coordinating with the Community Mobilization with Adolescent Participation Strategy (CMAPS) for data collection and feedback to communities.

6. In the event of an emergency, prompt support is provided to execute initial accurate information collection on the nature and scope of the emergency, and provide technical support to zone offices to establish facts and needs, coordinate rapid assessment, and determine priorities for appropriate intervention by UNICEF.

7. Contribute to the R4V platform coordination with focus on providing children and adolescents centered data and updated situation analysis.

8. Contribute to staff training in emergencies preparedness and response to enhance the country office emergency response capacities, including use of AAP mechanisms in emergencies.

9. Substantive input and assistance are provided in the implementation of emergency plans of action, workplans, emergency appeals, advocacy and mobilization of donors.

10. Lessons learnt from UNICEF's emergency operations experience are collected and analyzed for adoption of the best practices and contribute to system strengthening strategies. Contribute with evidence to identify longer-term requirements of the emergency operation/interventions.

11. Contributions provided for all documents and reports related to the office’s Emergency Preparedness and Response (eg. annual COAR, donors reports, CER, CSIs), as well as for the Situation Analysis and the Country Programme Document.

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

• University degree in one of the following fields: social sciences, development planning, planning, evaluation, survey implementation, advanced statistical research or relevant field.
• Two years of relevant professional work experience in programme development and implementation including humanitarian performance monitoring and evaluation activities at the national and/or international levels, in emergency programme/project development, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation or administration.
• At least one year of field work experience in emergency programming, including preparedness planning.
• Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme preferred.
• Training/experience in emergency response management highly desirable.
• Fluent in Portuguese and Proficient in English is required. Knowledge of Spanish will be considered 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’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable male candidates are encouraged to apply.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. 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 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.