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The position of Head of the Global Emergency Response Unit is located in the Humanitarian Response Division (HRD), based in Geneva. Under the overall guidance of the Director of HRD, the incumbent reports to the Deputy Director and provides substantive leadership in supporting Regional and Country Offices for their humanitarian emergency responses according to UNFPA’s Emergency Policy and Procedures and other relevant policies and frameworks.
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The overall purpose of the Humanitarian Response Division (HRD) is to facilitate the delivery of the UNFPA’s mandate by leading emergency response and supporting humanitarian preparedness actions in increasingly complex humanitarian situations, within globally agreed frameworks (2030 Agenda, Grand Bargain Commitments, Sendai Framework, etc.). The HRD leads in leveraging and increasing the effectiveness, efficiency, and capacity of UNFPA staff and partners to scale up UNFPA’s role as a key global humanitarian leader. Through the Inter-Agency Standing Committee for Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (IASC) and other associated entities, the HRD acts as a point of convergence on humanitarian activities, including policy, coordination, programming, advocacy, capacity development, resource mobilization, innovation, partnerships, technical guidance and, crucially, thematic integration, ensuring complementarity between humanitarian and development action within the organization.
HRD advocates among humanitarian agencies to include sexual and reproductive health and rights needs and sexual and gender-based violence prevention and response needs and humanitarian concerns and specific needs of women, adolescents and young people into the overall humanitarian preparedness and response frameworks. The HRD facilitates the development of UNFPA capacities to prepare and respond to the emergencies and to ensure the Agency is well equipped to deal with the context of fragility and disaster risk reduction.
The Head of the Global Emergency Response Unit (GERU) is responsible for supporting the overall leadership of HRD’s emergency interventions and management of the Global Emergency Response Unit under the overall guidance of the Director of HRD and daily supervision of the Deputy Director and contributing to UNFPA’s strategic goals through the management of an emergency preparedness and response portfolio. The GERU provides a field focused, service oriented, steering and convening role focusing on forward looking preparedness and ensures a swift, coordinated, and integrated humanitarian emergency response.
The incumbent will work in close collaboration with other units in HRD and HQ, the Regional and Country Offices and other UNFPA entities. The incumbent has supervisory responsibilities.
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Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of other UN languages is an asset.
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This position offers an attractive remuneration package including a competitive net salary plus health insurance and other benefits as applicable.
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