Operations and Management Support Specialist

The Office of Emergencies and Resilience, OER is responsible for ensuring FAO’s efforts to support countries and partners in preparing for and effectively responding to food and agricultural threats and crises. It is responsible for coordinating the development and maintenance of corporate tools and standards to enable Decentralized Offices to assist member countries to prepare for, and respond to emergencies. OER ensures humanitarian policy coordination and knowledge, liaison with the InterAgency Standing Committee as well as with humanitarian resource partners, co-leadership with World Food Programme of the global Food Security Cluster, organizational preparedness, surge capacity and response to large-scale emergencies. OER supports food and nutrition security assessment and early warning activities related to emergency and humanitarian analysis and responses. OER plays a major role in the development and leadership of the Organization’s programme to increase the resilience of livelihoods to food and agriculture threats and crises.
Under the general oversight of the Director, Office of Emergencies and Resilience and the direct supervision of the OER Management Support and Compliance Team Leader, the Specialist reports to the Programme Officer, OER
Support the implementation of FAO’s resilience agenda at a global, regional, sub regional and/or country level.
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Candidates Will Be Assessed Against The Following:
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