Emergency Specialist
hace 3 días
**Job no**: 572885
**Contract type**: Temporary Appointment
**Duty Station**: Panama City
**Level**: P-3
**Location**: Panama
**Categories**: Emergency
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**For every child, **_RIGHTS_**
**Purpose for the job**:
Under the supervision of the Regional Emergency Adviser, dotted management line with relevant COs and technical assistance from LACRO emergency and corporate alliance specialists, the position’s purpose is to support COs in enhancing child-centered shock-responsive systems in the Caribbean region. The incumbent, based in Panama City, with periodic travels to relevant COs, will:
- Lead the work with CDEMA and other subregional key stakeholders: Provide strategic guidance and technical support and enhance the partnership with CDEMA and other relevant stakeholders (e.g., CEPREDENAC), to strengthen subregional child-centered emergency preparedness and response in the Caribbean.
- Guide and support the work of the COs with National Disaster Offices (NDOs): Strengthen collaboration networks and procedures for enhancing inter-sectorial coordination for child-centered emergency preparedness and response.
- Guide and support the work of the COs with Line Ministries: Enhance national preparedness for more shock-responsive systems in Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, Child Protection and Social Protection with line ministries.
- Lead the work with the private sector and other partners, at regional and sub-regional level: Develop existing and new partnerships to boost collaboration, knowledge and resources sharing, capacity building, resource mobilization, and policy influence, at subregional and country levels.
**How can you make a difference?**
Under the supervision and the general guidance of LACRO’s Regional Emergency Advisor and the COs’ Representatives, the incumbent will work with LACRO’s teams and the COs teams in Belize, Jamaica, Eastern Caribbean Area (ECA), Guyana/Suriname, Dominican Republic and Cuba, to advance on the national preparedness agenda in the Caribbean region. When relevant, the incumbent can support COs’ actions related to non-CPD countries under their coverage.
1. **Lead** **the work with CDEMA and other subregional key stakeholders**:Provide strategic guidance and technical support and enhance the partnership with CDEMA and other relevant stakeholders (e.g., CEPREDENAC), to strengthen subregional child-centered emergency preparedness and response in the Caribbean. In particular:
1.1. **Lead the technical collaboration between CDEMA and Belize, Jamaica, ECA, and Guyana/ Suriname COs, **enhancing their leadership and capacity to boost child-centered EPR at regional and national level, by supporting:
1.1.1. the implementation and audit of the **Comprehensive Disaster** **Management** (CDM) framework
1.1.2. the **high-level coordination platforms **and mechanisms, e.g., the Caribbean Development Partners Group for Disaster Management (CPDG-DM), ii to monitor hazards and impact analysis.
1.1.3. the activation of the **CDEMA Regional Response Mechanism **(RRM), including the civil
- military coordination, mobilizing UNICEF support and private sector engagement whenever required.
1.2. **Collaborate with the humanitarian learning centres and academia **(e.g., the CDEMA’s **Regional Training Center, **the UWI, INTEC, UNESCO) in the definition, development and roll-out of child
- centred EPR trainings, to produce studies and evidence for child-focused humanitarian action and advocacy at different levels, including for the operationalization of the CDEMA’s Regional Protocol for the Integrated Protection of Children and Adolescents in Emergency and Disaster Situations.,.
1.3. Support **technical and strategic alliances with UNETT, UNCT, and key partners **in the Caribbean (e.g., IFRC, Red Cross Societies, Caritas, and other relevant NGOs and CBOs), to build a joint/ multi
- country EPR programmes implementation, involving joint early warning systems, supplies & logistics strategies, joint information management (e.g., for data readiness, and through platforms such as the Caribbean Risk Information System, GeoCRIS or CCRI-DRM), capitalizing on joint advocacy and networking, resource and human resources sharing.
2. **Guide and support **the work of the COs with Natio
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