Associate Humanitarian Affairs Officer
hace 5 meses
Duties and Responsibilities Under the direct supervision of OCHA ROLAC, Coordination Unit, Humanitarian Affairs Officer (P4), working closely with the rest of the OCHA team to facilitate effective Humanitarian Coordination. Within the presented operational context, the AHAO will help strengthen humanitarian coordination, disaster preparedness, and response at the regional level. Activities include supporting and providing technical advice to regional humanitarian coordination platforms and humanitarian partners on humanitarian affairs and coordination, bolster response readiness capacity, and coordinate emergency response, as needed, ensuring appropriate capacity to plan for and respond to humanitarian issues including proper contingency planning and coordination. The Associate Humanitarian Affairs Officer will be responsible for the following duties: 1.
Coordination Monitor and analyze the dynamic humanitarian situation and its operational challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Support and facilitate OCHA-led humanitarian coordination meetings in Panama. Assisting in organizing workgroups, meetings, conferences, consultations, etc. and following up the coordination meetings' decisions and action points with correspondent stakeholders.
Support the coordination officers in establishing partnerships with other humanitarian agencies to plan and monitor complex humanitarian and emergency assistance programs, helping to compile latest findings and lessons learned. Support the promotion and incorporation of themes related to cross-cutting issues including gender, protection and accountability to affected people in preparedness actions and humanitarian responses. Collaborate during response deployments in support of humanitarian operations. Keep abreast of the latest developments, help liaise with other humanitarian organizations, donors, and government counterparts.
2. Information Management Assist in the establishment and maintenance of contacts with other humanitarian partners, relevant government counterparts etc. Actively participate in the production of information products on the humanitarian situation. Actively promote, use and support partners in the use of the system developed by OCHA ROLAC (345W) to map partners presence and track their response activities.
Assist in establishing appropriate monitoring and reporting mechanisms, ensuring timely dissemination through the multiple existing channels. Support in uploading, updating, and maintenance of work files on shared drives and online libraries. 3. Advocacy Contribute and/or prepare humanitarian overviews and context analyses.
Support advocacy efforts concerning humanitarian priority issues. Provide information and advice on a range of humanitarian issues. Contribute to the preparation of various advocacy messages, talking points, presentations. 4.
Humanitarian Financing Support the monitoring of the humanitarian financing trends in the LAC region, using existing mechanisms and tools. 5. Other duties Perform other duties and assigned responsibilities around the areas of this Term of Reference as recommended by supervisor and according to identified priorities as context changes Competencies Core - Level 1 Achieve Results: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline Think Innovatively: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements Learn Continuously: Open-minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback Adapt with Agility: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible Act with Determination: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident Engage and Partner: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination Cross-Functional & Technical competencies: Engagement & Effectiveness - Crisis and Fragility Policy and Engagement: Humanitarian-Development Peace (HDP) Nexus. Engagement & Effectiveness - Crisis management / Country Management Support: Humanitarian assessment capacity.
**Business Management
- Project Management**: Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and control resources, procedures, and protocols to achieve specific goals. Business Direction & Strategy - Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop effective strategies and prioritized plans in line with OCHA's objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, potential risks, and opportunities, linking the vision to reality on the ground, and creating tangible solutions. Ability to leverage learning from a variety of sources to anticipate and respond to future trends; to demonstrate foresight to model what future developments and possible ways forward look like for OCHA. Business Management - Mutual Accountability Framework: Ability to manage programmes
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