Operations Specialist

The Operations Specialist reports to the Senior Regional Resilience Officer (Team Leader), under the overall guidance of the Assistant Director-General/Regional Representative for Africa and the Regional Programme Leader, and the functional guidance of the Office of Emergencies and Resilience (OER) as the Programme Priorities teams in RAF, in consultants with the relevant technical officers in the regional level.

Technical Focus:

The Operations Specialist coordinates, monitors, and controls functions in support of FAO’s Operational services. He/she is expected to act as the primary escalation point for all technical issues raised within the project execution. He/she is further expected to contribute to timely and efficient project operations.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Handle day-to-day operational aspects of emergency response and resilience projects and programmes in accordance with the project management cycle from initiation phase to operational and financial closure.
• Organize the travel and arrival of all deployed/mission personnel in support of Subregional and Country Offices in RAF Region.
• Participate in needs and disaster assessments, including interagency assessments and processes.
• Participate in the design of emergency and resilience projects and programmes, including the preparation and presentation of project proposals and fully-fledged project documents.
• Ensure technical clearance is obtained from the relevant technical unit for all project proposals, project documents and technical specifications.
• Provide operational support to the implementation emergency and resilience projects and programmes, including budgetary management and monitoring expenditures.
• Produce various proposals, programme/project documents, briefs, financial/donor reports and final statements, etc.
• Support Country Offices to liaise with other government, UN, cluster/sector, NGO and donor partners at the appropriate level to ensure the best preparation and implementation of emergency and resilience activities.
• Prepare and participates in meetings and international fora related to humanitarian relief matters.
• Formulate correspondence with recipient governments and donors.
• Provide operational support and promote capacity development to Country Offices.
• Monitor and provide support to resource mobilization activities.
• Report against the regional and country programme dashboard.
• Maintain and updates information systems and databases, as applicable.
• Undertake travel to ensure adequate operational support is provided to the implementation of emergency and resilience projects and programmes, including Surge SupportSpe;
• Perform other duties as required.

Candidates Will Be Assessed Against The Following:

Minimum Requirements:

• University degree in agriculture, economics, international relations, public or business administration, finance, accounting, economics, social sciences or another field related to the FAO mandate
• 5 years of relevant experience in project management especially in the agricultural sector
• Working knowledge (proficient – level C) of English and limited knowledge (intermediate – level B) of another FAO official language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish)

Source: https://jobs.fao.org/careersection/fao_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=2500494