Job categories Health, Programme Management
Vacancy code VA/2024/B5011/28840
Level ICS-9
Department/office GPO, NYPO, UN Technology Support Services
Duty station New York**, United States of America
Contract type International ICA
Contract level IICA-1
Duration Open-ended (subject to good performance, availability of funds, organizational requirements and project duration)
Application period 06-Sep-2024 to 22-Sep-2024
Applications to vacancies must be received before midnight Copenhagen time (CET) on the closing date of the announcement.
Functional Responsibilities
The incumbent will report to the Humanitarian Operations Specialist under the overall direction of the Anticipatory Action Lead in the Programme Unit of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) secretariat.
The incumbent will be responsible for the following duties but not limited to:
- Support the development of new anticipatory action frameworks (action plan, crisis timeline, trigger mechanism based on predictive data analytics, etc.), contribute specific expertise and dedicated knowledge to the revision and improvement of existing frameworks, and provide expertise through research, analysis, presentation and facilitation. ensuring that frameworks align with OCHA’s criteria and objectives and that triggers are based on rigorous data analysis.
- Provides expertise and knowledge to monitor specific Anticipatory Action frameworks, including whether trigger conditions have been met based on data analysis, and facilitates the activation of Anticipatory Action frameworks when agreed triggers have been reached. This includes the development or review of CERF applications (projects and budgets), ensuring that activities are anticipatory in nature and in line with CERF’s life-saving criteria, and ensuring that projects can be approved immediately and money disbursed quickly.
- Contributes specific deliverables to the learning workstreams for specific anticipatory action frameworks, including surveys, data analysis, evaluations, process learning and monitoring.
- Provides guidance and develops specific deliverables (e.g., frameworks, templates, guidance, data analyses, monitoring tools) for OCHA’s early action work and leads on selected workstreams, such as cholera or El Niño/La Niña
- Conducts data analyses underpinning CERF’s work on anticipatory and early action, contributing to the decision-making on pre-agreed financing and funding allocations.
- Contributes their Anticipatory Action expertise and knowledge to OCHA’s overall Anticipatory Action workstream, including disaster risk financing and the development of policy, standards, reports, data analysis, background papers, presentations.
- Perform other duties as may be reasonably required and in line with the incumbent’s scope of services above.
Work implies frequent collaboration with the following:
- Personnel at all levels within OCHA/UNOPS in New York, Geneva, country and regional offices as needed
- Counterparts in other UN agencies, NGOs and research institutions
- Work potentially includes travel to countries with humanitarian contexts or for surge support, workshops, seminars, trainings, etc.
Education/Experience/Language requirements
*FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY
*CANDIDATES WITH NO UNITED NATIONS OR UNOPS EXPERIENCE ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY a. Education (Level and area of required and/or preferred education)
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) preferably in international relations, humanitarian affairs, diplomacy, public health, medicine, engineering, or a similar field.
- A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) in combination with two additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
b. Work Experience
Required
- At least two (2) years of experience working on humanitarian action is required.
- Direct experience with humanitarian anticipatory action is required
Desirable:(The following experiences are optional, candidates who do not have it are welcome to apply)
- Experience with humanitarian pooled funds is desirable.
- Experience working in the health sector and/or disaster risk financing is desirable
- Experience in collaborating or interacting with different types of humanitarian stakeholders (NGOs, UN agencies, Governments, etc.) is desirable
c. Languages
- Fluency in English (reading, writing, speaking) is required.
- Fluency in French is desirable.