United Nations Children's Fund
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UNICEF invests in the institutional and technical capacity of local actors (authorities, CSOs, communities and private sector), to better address the needs of children affected by humanitarian crisis and to prepare national and sub-national actors for future humanitarian responses. UNICEF commits to localizing its humanitarian response by recognizing, respecting and strengthening the leadership and coordination of humanitarian action by national and local authorities, CSOs, and communities. UNICEF achieves localization by supporting participation, leadership and capacity-strengthening of local partners in humanitarian action, including in coordination mechanisms, engaging in principled partnership, adopting comprehensive risk management and, where possible, supporting multi-year agreements and funding.
Support the rollout and scale up of localization interventions and processes across MENA:
Support the rollout and scale up of localization interventions and processes across MENA:
- Support the operationalization of UNICEF technical note on localization in humanitarian action, the
- strategic document for the localization agenda
- Support country offices to identify opportunities for strategic engagement with local actors, as well as
- barriers that may hinder their engagement with UNICEF
- In conjunction with other sections, lead the development of localized surge capacity (e.g. local-level
- emergency response teams/roster of local first responders) to complement other institutional
- mechanisms and ensure faster response to children’s needs during crisis
- With supply team, explore local supply and logistics preparedness including arrangements to promote
- local production and local procurements
- Contribute to the documentation of country case studies on the operationalization of the localization
- agenda
- Work closely with cluster coordinators to identify and support opportunities to connect local CSOs with
- cluster coordination at national and sub-national level
Act as focal point for inclusion within the Humanitarian team:
- Support Country offices in ensuring a) inclusive needs assessments, planning and monitoring, b) inclusive
- and safe access to information and services and c) children at risk of exclusion, including children with
- disabilities, across all genders, ages, and nationalities, including refugees and internally displaced –
- participate in the design of programmes and in the decisions that affect their lives
- Liaise with RO sections to support inclusive preparedness and response
Lead advocacy, networking and capacity building efforts on AAP, localization and inclusion in humanitarianaction
- Facilitate capacity building to strengthen the knowledge of, and commitment to AAP/CE approaches forUNICEF and partner staff
- Develop context-specific capacity building materials by contextualizing global and national tools and
- support capacity strengthening on inclusive and localized humanitarian response.
- In collaboration with Planning and Reports teams, facilitate AAP inclusive monitoring and reporting
- efforts across MENA
- Identify opportunities to integrate AAP into existing training and tailor content to specific audiences.
- Facilitate staff capacity strengthening (including orientation sessions) on localization, and disseminate
- global and regional guidance
- Support and coordinate operationalization of UNICEF local partners capacity institutional strengthening
- guidance to facilitate local actors’ ability to respond to results for children.
- Collaborate with internal, regional and global partners to update, harmonize, link and coordinate
- activities, tools and processes designed to enhance communication and community engagement in
- humanitarian response including use of multiple media and communication platforms
- Maintain and strengthen partnerships and stakeholder engagement through networking and proactiv
- collaboration and engagement with strategic partners including NGOs, including the organization of
- marginalized groups – women, children, displaced and stateless people, refugees, people with
- disabilities, and people of all genders and sexualities, local authorities, community and religious leaders
- and others to promote accountability to affected population.
Partner and coordinate with relevant stakeholders on AAP and localisation in humanitarian action:
- Explore and enhance opportunities for inter-agency collaboration on AAP.
- Serve as the primary focal point with headquarters, participate in monthly AAP Technical Group meeting,
- support preparations of the bi-annual Steering Group meeting for MENARO
- Lead regular AAP and Localization meetings with all COs in the region
- Liaise with other relevant colleagues in Regional Offices to ensure coherence and consistence in
- operationalizing UNICEF AAP global strategy in close collaboration with headquarters (EMOPS Geneva,
- AAP lead)
- Liaise with other relevant colleagues in Regional Offices to ensure coherence and consistence in
- operationalizing UNICEF Localization approach in close collaboration with headquarters (EMOPS HPS
- lead)
- Coordinate with other cross-cutting/people-centred specialists and focal points e.g. PSEA, gender,
- disability inclusion etc., and harmonize training, approaches, and advocacy
- Represent UNICEF at inter-agency Working Groups, clusters and other relevant fora in formulating and
- articulating AAP/CE and Localization plans and outcomes and in disseminating key results and lessons
- learnt
- Identify and build partnerships with global/regional institutional pools of expertise who could contribute
- to advancing AAP and Localization agendas
- Explore and enhance opportunities for Inter-Agency collaboration on localization, and support clusters
- to increasingly integrate localization in humanitarian action
Lead on evidence generation, innovation and knowledge management:
- Support Country Offices (remotely or on the ground) in conducting inclusive needs assessment to
- understand community information needs, communications preferences, community dynamics, social
- norms, cultural beliefs, superstitions and other anthropological factors that could impact programmes
- Support Country Offices in ensuring systematic collection and analysis of key community feedback data
- through integration of core AAP questions in cluster assessments, surveys and other data collection tools
- and activities and their inclusion in IMEP, ensuring it is routinely disaggregated by age, sex, and disability
- Support the analysis and dissemination of community perception surveys of UNICEF and quality of
UNICEF supported programmes:
- Facilitate the implementation and documentation of innovative practices, approaches and latest
- technology on multiple media and social/digital platforms and networks that are appropriate/available
- for the humanitarian context and audience (e.g. U-Report)
- Institutionalize/share best practices and knowledge, including for the VoC pilot, through the MENA
- compendium of AAP practices with global/regional/national/local partners and stakeholders to build
- capacity of partners and disseminate these products to key audiences including donors and national and
- global partners
- Coordinate the documentation of good practices and lessons learnt, on the different components of the
- localization approach
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Education:
Education:
- Advanced University degree in one of the following fields: social and behavioral sciences, anthropology, psychology, international relations or other related disciplines. Preferably a combination of management, administration and relevant technical fields.
Work Experience:
- Eight years of progressively responsible professional work experience at national and international levels in Humanitarian programme/project development.
- Work experience in complex emergencies is required.
- Demonstrable field experience in developing and implementing evidence-based AAP strategies and interventions in humanitarian contexts.
- Experience in designing and facilitating participatory capacity-building sessions at different levels with diverse, multicultural teams. Professional field experience in strategic engagement with local actors, on the operationalization of a comprehensive localization agenda.
- Demonstrable field experience in advancing inclusive emergency preparedness and response.
Language Proficiency:
- Fluency in English and fluency of another official UN language (Arabic and/or French) is required.
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