Humanitarian Information Management Assistant

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 fulfilling 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.
In the East Asia and Pacific Region, UNICEF works to uphold the rights of all children. This means the rights of every child, irrespective of their nationality, gender, religion or ethnicity, to:

• survival – to basic healthcare, peace and security;
• development – to a good education, a loving home and adequate nutrition;
• protection – from abuse, neglect, trafficking, child labour and other forms of exploitation; and
• participation – to express opinions, be listened to and take part in making any decisions that affect them

Recognizing children, adolescents and youth have a right to participate in decisions that affect their lives, a right to a healthy and safe environment, and a right to protection from harm, UNICEF is calling for governments and businesses to address the climate crisis through reduction in greenhouse emissions, increased investment in children’s awareness and climate literacy, and by engaging young people in environmental and climate related policy making.

East Asia and the Pacific is the region most affected by disasters worldwide and with the most weather-related child displacements in absolute numbers globally. Climate-exacerbated weather events have increased six-fold in East Asia and the Pacific over the past 50 years. In 2023, the region experienced large-scale storms, floods, droughts, wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, as well as human-induced emergencies such as armed conflict. Children are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of these events as the closure of child-critical services – including education, health, social protection and child protection – puts their health, well-being and futures at risk.

UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO) works with 14 country offices, government counterparts, UN agencies and partners to ensure effective emergency preparedness and response for children facing humanitarian crises across the region. The Regional Office provides technical expertise to strengthen systems for child-sensitive and child-inclusive humanitarian action in line with the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action and to enhance regional capacity for child-centered disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.

Under the direct supervision of the Regional Emergency Specialist and with guidance from relevant Humanitarian Action and Disaster Risk Reduction team members, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Regularly monitor news and other information channels to keep the team informed on up-coming risks and ongoing emergency events, and update the existing list of risk monitoring information sources.
• Provide support to follow-up with UNICEF Country Offices to collect inputs and draft monthly internal Regional Humanitarian Updates.
• Provide support to monitor the status of Country Office inputs in the Emergency Prepared-ness Platform (EPP) and to update the EPP action tracker.
• Provide support to follow-up with Country Offices and Regional Office colleagues to collect inputs for the mid-year and end-year Regional Situation Reports, emergency appeals and project proposals.
• Participate in meetings or calls and assist in preparing notes for Regional Office actions and follow-up.
• Support the preparation of briefing notes and presentations to be used by the Humanitarian-an Action and DRR team for internal/external briefings.
• In collaboration with the Regional Adolescent Development and Participation team, explore opportunities to engage with the Young Person’s Action Team (YPAT) and other youth networks on the experiences and challenges for young people displaced by climate change, disasters and conflict.
• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of how UNICEF works on humanitarian action globally and within the region by completing key AGORA courses on UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Children in humanitarian action, emergency procedures and disaster risk reduction; and reading relevant reports and publications.
• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and taking active part in UNV activities (for in-stance in events that mark International Volunteer Day).
• Provide annual and end of assignment self- reports on UN Volunteer actions, results and opportunities.
• Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.