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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
  • 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

  • Conduct an assessment of the damage and loss caused by the disaster on the fisheries and aquaculture sectors following FAO’s guidelines, in collaboration and coordination with other damage and needs assessments.
  • Identify rehabilitation priorities in the sector and, with donors and government develop project concepts to address these issues.
  • Ensure that assessments give sufficient emphasis on (remaining or) existing capacities (as damage, capacity and needs assessments)
  • Provide guidance to FAO project national consultants for field level activities.
  • Support the work of the National advisor (fisheries and aquaculture).
  • Review available relevant studies and reports, as well as consult with relevant stakeholders from the fisheries and/or aquaculture sector to ensure deep understanding of the challenges facing the fisheries and/or aquaculture sector, explore and discuss improvement opportunities and discuss lessons learned.
  • Assess feasibility and requirements of possible fishery and/or aquaculture-related resilience and response interventions.
  • Facilitate consultative workshops to discuss and enrich preliminary findings.
  • Meet with relevant officials, explore and identify possible capacity building interventions at the technical and institutional levels.
  • Draft concept note and/or fully fledged project proposal(s) for FAO interventions in the sector addressing the technical and in-kind support needs and marketing.
  • For longer duration recruitment, key functions may include implementing the FAO fishery and aquaculture emergency rehabilitation programme.
  • Carry out other related duties as required or requested by the FAOR.

 

 

 

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

 

 

Minimum Requirements

  • Advanced degree in fisheries and/or aquaculture studies.
  • Seven years relevant experience
  • Working knowledge of English; limited knowledge of a second official language of the Organization would be an asset, according to the country of assignment.

 

FAO Core Competencies

  • Results Focus
  • Teamwork
  • Communication
  • Building Effective Relationships
  • Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

 

Technical/Functional Skills

  • Demonstrated experience of fishery and aquaculture post disaster needs assessments and emergency response.
  • Excellent managerial and coordination skills.
  • Demonstrated experience of field projects.
  • Extensive experience in, financial planning and budgeting.

 

 

 

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