Humanitarian Specialist

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The UN Women MCO is in an advantageous position in the region with regard to its coordination role as lead of the Pacific Humanitarian and Protection Cluster (PHPC) which provides ample opportunity for consolidating its envisaged role of triple mandate (normative, operation and coordination) as per the Strategic Note (2023-2027).

Reporting to the Climate Action and Humanitarian Specialist, the Humanitarian Specialist will manage the development of Humanitarian programmes, provide capacity building to Country Offices (CO) and Multi Country Offices (MCO), establish, and strengthen partnerships, and develop relevant knowledge products on gender, protection, and humanitarian response.

Duties and Responsibilities:
Manage the development of programmes on humanitarian action:

Manage the development of regional programme documents on humanitarian action;
Provide technical inputs to programme proposals from country offices/ Fiji Multi Country office.
Provide advice on contextualizing/ localizing programme documents, country strategies, and knowledge products;
Coordinate proper monitoring and reporting for humanitarian action in collaboration with programme teams.

Provide capacity building support to the Country Office Programme Presence teams and partners:

Provide technical and policy support to the multi-country office in Fiji and country office programme presence teams in developing and strengthening projects/ programmes;
Implement and monitor capacity building initiatives;
Provide technical support to partners on implementation of gender-responsive humanitarian action.

Establish and strengthen strategic partnerships with stakeholders, regional/ international actors and development partners:

Build and maintain alliances and strategic partnerships for the advancement, disaster preparedness and humanitarian action;
Build and maintain close liaisons with relevant donors and other actors supporting efforts towards humanitarian action, as delegated;
Contribute inputs to updates and briefs on regional/country development situation to be used by stakeholders, CO and HQ;
Maintain close contact with relevant staff in UN Women HQ.
Manage the resource mobilization strategy for humanitarian action in the region
Participate in the implementation, monitoring and periodic updating of the resource mobilization strategy on humanitarian action in the region;
Provide technical support to field-based presences in the region in mobilizing resources for the implementation of humanitarian action;
Research and analyze information on donors.

Manage the design of humanitarian action in the region and the development of relevant knowledge products:

Provide inputs to policy recommendations and guidance to strategic planning and positioning on humanitarian action;
Research and develop analytical reports, research papers, briefing notes, background papers, summaries, correspondence, and knowledge products on humanitarian action;
Identify promising practices, technical expertise in humanitarian action.

Manage the advocacy of humanitarian action through inter-agency coordination:

Work closely with PHPC partners and provide advice to regional/ national bodies and interagency groups that influence national policies related to humanitarian action;
Participate and contribute inputs to the regional Humanitarian Protection Cluster and Pacific Humanitarian Team meetings when required;
Coordinate specific efforts in mainstreaming gender and protection in disaster preparedness, response and recovery efforts of other clusters and relevant working groups;
Advocate for the engagement and participation of local organizations and civil society networks in humanitarian coordination mechanisms.

Manage advocacy and communication efforts of humanitarian action:

During emergency response, develop and implement communication and advocacy messages and contribute inputs to strategies on key gender and protection concerns;
Develop information, education and communication (IEC) materials, press releases, situation reports, alerts and contribute gender and protection-related inputs to documents prepared by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Manage knowledge building and sharing for humanitarian action:

Identify and disseminate lessons learnt and good practices in collaboration with country offices;
Ensure technical skills and knowledge are shared within and among the staff at the Fiji MCO and programme presence in the Country Offices.

Required Skills and Experience:
Education and Certification:

Master’s degree or equivalent in Human Rights, Gender, International Relations, International Development, International Law or other Social Science fields is required.
A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
A project/programme management certification (such as PMP®, PRINCE2®, or MSP®) would be an added advantage.

Experience:

At least 5 years (with Master’s degree), or minimum of 7 years (with Bachelor’s degree) of progressively responsible work experience in in designing and managing humanitarian programmes, with a particular focus on gender and protection in emergencies.
Technical experience in inter-agency coordination, preferably protection cluster coordination, and/or ProCap/GenCap in a natural disaster setting.
Experience in policy analysis and strategic planning.
Experience working with, and building partnerships with governments, donors and civil society organizations internationally and in the field.
Experience working with the UN is an asset.
Experience working in the region is an asset.
Knowledge of the Pacific is an asset.
Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.
Experience in the use of a modern web-based ERP System, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable.

Languages:

Fluency in English is required.
Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable (French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish).

Source: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=115002

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