Fishery and Aquaculture Specialist - Resilience and Response specialist for the Emergency Response Roster
Home Based - May require travel
- Organization: FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Location: Home Based - May require travel
- Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
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Occupational Groups:
- Environment
- Medical Practitioners
- Humanitarian Aid and Coordination
- Agriculture and Forestry
- Maritime
- Fisheries
- Disaster Management (Preparedness, Resilience, Response and Recovery)
- Emergency Aid and Response
- Climate Change
- Water Resource Management
- Sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources
- EMERGENCY AND REHABILITATION DIVISION, TCE
- Closing Date: Closed
The scope of this Call of Expressions of Interest is to build a Roster of qualified personnel (internal or external to FAO) for ready deployment in case of L3 emergencies.
Organizational Setting The Emergency and Rehabilitation Division 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. TCE ensures humanitarian policy coordination and knowledge, liaison with the Inter-Agency 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. TCE supports food and nutrition security assessment and early warning activities related to emergency and humanitarian analysis and responses. TCE 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 (SO5)”.
Reporting Lines The Fishery and Aquaculture Specialist will report to the FAO Representative (FAOR), under the functional guidance of the Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer, TCE and the technical guidance of the (Sub) Regional Fishery and Aquaculture officer(s) and the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. Any boat-related work must be supervised by the Fishing Operations and Technology Branch (FIAO) of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department.
Technical Focus Support post-disaster needs and damage assessments, identify and design feasible opportunities for FAO interventions in the fisheries and/or aquaculture sector, and develop fishery and aquaculture resilience and response project ideas and proposals, under the resilience programme of FAO’s Strategic Programme 5. For longer duration recruitment, technical focus may include implementing the FAO fishery and aquaculture resilience and response programme.
Key Results Information gathered on the damage, needs and existing capacity of the fishery and aquaculture (sub) sectors, possible areas of interventions and resource requirements identified and concept note(s) and fully-fledged proposals developed.
Tasks and responsibilities
CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING
Minimum Requirements
FAO Core Competencies
Technical/Functional Skills
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