Historique
- Advocate for access to basic services, especially water, sanitation, education and health for vulnerable communities, including the collection, analysis and dissemination of information to humanitarian partners, and negotiation of access;
- Support the government efforts and humanitarian organizations in relocation of internally displaced and return;
- Coordinate the implementation of humanitarian response in Somalia with UN agencies and programmes, national and international NGOs and local authorities/communities as appropriate, with focus on strengthening the cluster approach;
- Enhance a protective environment that respects the human rights of all, including IDPs, returnees and minority clans.
Devoirs et responsabilités
- Information Collection in support of Humanitarian Analysis and Response;
- Information Sharing;
- Development of coordination and cooperation mechanisms among stakeholders;
- Monitoring and Reporting;
- Facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing.
- Review incoming field reports, prepare summaries of field activities and flag important issues to senior management;
- Actively participate in the Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP), and CAP Mid-Year Review and End-year Review processes;
- Gather and verify information on issues affecting the humanitarian situation, emphasizing opportunities for response;
- Supports regional analysis and interface with the AIM working group to extract key action points that need follow up from assessments undertaken and the humanitarian Dashboard.
- Pro-actively share information with OCHA and relevant stakeholders on pertinent issues;
- Identify key pieces of information that will assist with organizational decision-making with a particular focus on improving humanitarian response.
- Support existing coordination mechanisms and assist in the establishment of new field coordination wherever required;
- Establish relationships with key stakeholders, including non-traditional humanitarian actors, in areas of operation to ensure humanitarian information flow from OCHA to partners and vice versa and ensure their participation in operations;
- Provide proper monitoring and reporting focusing on achievement of the following:
- Support the collection of field information to monitor and improve ongoing response, coordination activities and information products;
- Prepare succinct reports on the key humanitarian issues in the districts and workings with district level partners provide analysis on response gaps and advocacy issues.
- Identification of sources of information related to coordination;
- Identification and synthesis of best practices and lessons learnt directly linked to country policy goals;
- Sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
Compétences
- Identifies and communicates relevant information for a variety of audiences for advocating OCHA’s priorities
- Researches linkages across programme activities to identify critical points of integration;
- Monitors specific stages of projects/programme implementation.
- Maintains an established network of contacts for general information sharing and to remain up-to-date on partnership related issues;
- Analyzes and selects materials for strengthening strategic alliances with partners and stakeholders.
- Generates new ideas and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things;
- Documents and analyses innovative strategies/best practices/new approaches.
- Collects, researches and analyzes information on resource mobilization and utilization, drafts reports and documents and maintains information/databases on potential and actual donors and donor funded projects.
- Generates new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things;
- Documents and analyses innovative strategies and new approaches.
- Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principles of a professional discipline or technical specialty relating to the position;
- Strives to keep job knowledge up-to-date through self-directed study and other means of learning;
- Demonstrates good knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments;
- Demonstrates in-depth understanding and knowledge of the current guidelines and project management tools and utilizes these regularly in work assignments;
- Ability to research, analyze, evaluate and synthesize information;
- Ability to express clearly and concisely, ideas and concepts in written and oral form;
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- Identifies and communicates relevant information for advocacy for OCHA’s goals for a variety of audiences;
- Maintains a functioning network of contacts in the media and civil society, to promote a better understanding of OCHA’s priorities and to support advocacy efforts.
- Researches potential solutions to internal and external client needs and reports back in a timely, succinct and appropriate fashion;
- Organizes and prioritizes work schedule to meet client needs and deadlines;
- Establishes, builds and sustains effective relationships within the work unit and with internal and external clients.
- Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity
- Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment
- Self-development, initiative-taking
- Acting as a team player and facilitating team work
- Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively
- Creating synergies through self-control
- Managing conflict
- Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others. Promoting learning and knowledge management/sharing are the responsibility of each staff member.
- Informed and transparent decision making
Qualifications et expériences requises
- Master’s Degree or equivalent in political science, sociology, law or international relations or related field;
- A first level university degree with a combination of relevant academic qualifications and experience or other related field may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree with 2 years of experience.
- Professional experience, preferably in complex emergency and inter-agency contexts, dealing with relief and transitional issues;
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc) and experience in handling of web based management systems.
- Proficiency in both oral and written English;
- Knowledge of Somali is a requirement.