Internal and external advertisement: Emergency Specialist, P-3, TA (364 days), Nairobi, ESARO (post # 125083)

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.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 111,152 USD and 145,545 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, a safe environment

The Humanitarian Action, Resilience and Peace Building (HARP) Section of UNICEF’s East and Southern Africa Office (ESARO) seeks to strengthen country capacity for timely, effective and reliable programming in humanitarian action, peacebuilding and resilience. HARP's work bridges the divide between Humanitarian Action and Development by strengthening preparedness to multiple environmental hazards and conflict related risks so as to minimize the impacts these have on children.

HARP works closely with other programme and operations sections to ultimately ensure that lives are saved, and the rights of children and women are protected as defined in the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs) which is aligned with internationally accepted standards. HARP recognizes the importance of working with all sections to address underlying causes of vulnerability to disasters, fragility and conflict through support in response to humanitarian crises and through regular programming.

The work of HARP builds on systems that support humanitarian action with the overall aim to achieve faster scaling up of responses in major emergencies including early identification of priorities and strategies, rapid deployment of qualified staff and clear accountabilities for the response. Recognizing the importance of the lifesaving role that early action plays, HARP works with COs and other Inter Agency partners to further strengthen Government and agency dedicated capacities for disaster management identifying and measuring specific and measurable performance targets both for humanitarian preparedness and response.

How can you make a difference?

The Emergency Specialist will provide support to Level 3 (L3) Corporate Emergency Activation procedure (CEAP) Scale-up for the Horn of Africa drought crisis presents an increasing need to mobilize dedicated support to the drought-affected countries of Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia, and Great Lakes countries (Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, and Uganda).

Technical support to COs for humanitarian planning/HACs, preparedness planning:

• Provide technical reviews and recommendations to Country office HAC plans and Country Programme Documents
• Support in the development of preparedness planning and update of EPP and data readiness.

Support regional management for L2 and L3 EMTs

• Contribute to monthly updates and analysis of results[DM1]
• Support L3 country offices with advocacy and resource mobilization activities through monthly or quarterly dissemination of call to action
• Plan and organize all Technical Emergency Team meetings
• Liaise with EMOPS to ensure support for all COs and ensure smooth two-way flow of information and analysis
• Provide technical support on core cross cutting and programmatic support to country offices in crisis

Quality assurance and strengthened capacity building for humanitarian reporting in the region:

• Support capacity building for Country Offices for EPR through development and delivering of country-specific and multi-country remote and onsite support to share good practice for
  • Reporting and knowledge management in humanitarian settings.
  • Regional donor reporting requirements for humanitarian funding.
• Draft and edit donor reports for the section and HARP contributions to ESARO regional reports.
• Support the preparation, documentation, reporting and follow-up of the emergency team meetings within the RO, including Emergency Management Team, Humanitarian Action Group, Humanitarian Network Meeting, and weekly section meetings.
• Support in the review of HAC narrative, HPM/IM dashboards and other documents in terms of coherence, editing and clarity in general.

Improved knowledge management and section planning for HARP

• Oversee knowledge management for the section and provide support to COs as needed.
• Support analysis and information sharing on humanitarian action by consolidating information on various humanitarian contexts, priority humanitarian needs, UNICEF and partners’ ongoing response and priority resource needs and support the development and editing of communications products for internal and external dissemination.
• Support the preparation of regional office work planning exercises, mid-year review, and end-of-year review reporting.

Enhanced support for the UNICEF/UNHCR collaborative relationship

• Support the collaborative work with UNHCR, including ESARO’s Collaboration Framework, and particularly for Ethiopia CO and Rwanda CO as part of the Blueprint Initiative.
• Support on the operationalization and roll-out of the new Collaboration framework in the region

Enhanced advocacy and research support provided to the Emergency Specialists

• Co-leads on the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa region with a focus on country office support, development of relevant documents that include briefing notes, talking points, research, and presentations for high-level meetings.

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

Education:

• Advanced university degree (or equivalent) in the areas of policy, social sciences, development, international affairs, communications.

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.
• Experience in: Reporting, communications and advocacy in humanitarian/emergency issues or contexts; Developing and managing Knowledge Management platforms; Developing and presenting trainings.
• Excellent organization skills, attention to detail; written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work independently and respond to feedback in a timely and professional manner
• Experience in report writing and communications within the UN common system highly desirable.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in both written and spoken English, knowledge of another UN language is a strong asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, 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 from programme countries are encouraged to apply.

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.

Eligible UNICEF International Professional (IP) Staff Members on fixed-term, continuing or permanent contracts applying to a Temporary Appointment, which is dedicated to L3 (or L2) Response, may be able to retain a lien and their fixed-term entitlements. The conditions of the temporary assignment will vary depending on the status of their post and their current tour of duty, and relocation entitlements may be limited as per the relevant policies.