Senior Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer
Rome
- Organization: FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Location: Rome
- Grade: Senior level - P-5, International Professional - Internationally recruited position
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Occupational Groups:
- Medical Practitioners
- Humanitarian Aid and Coordination
- Emergency Aid and Response
- Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DD&R)
- Office of Emergencies and Resilience, OER
- Closing Date: Closed
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The length of appointment for internal FAO candidates will be established in accordance with applicable policies pertaining to the extension of appointments
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• FAO is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, background and culture
• FAO does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
• The incumbent may be re-assigned to different activities and/or duty stations depending on the evolving needs of the Organization.
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Organizational Setting
The Food and Agriculture Organization is the specialized Agency of the United Nations leading international efforts to defeat hunger. FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to high-quality food.
FAO's Office of Emergencies and Resilience leads the Organization’s efforts to support member countries in their endeavours to save agricultural livelihoods of people and communities and enhance their resilience in the face of disasters, crises and conflicts. The Organization strives to secure sustainable development gains while ensuring that all interventions to support agriculture and food systems are risk-informed and sustainably productive. Food crisis contexts require a well-organized, highly prioritized, and well-resourced humanitarian and resilience programme to play a meaningful role in the relevant fora at national, regional and global levels. To claim its rightful place and to contribute meaningfully to relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in food crises contexts, timeliness and speed in generating quality information and analysis together with agility in processes, partnerships, and delivery are central. In short, prevention and mitigation of disasters, whether related to natural hazards, plant and animal pests and diseases and/or conflict, together with being prepared and able to respond when disasters hit, require structured and agile system that is able to carry out effective processes of risk assessment and risk management.
The Office of Emergencies and Resilience (OER) is composed of three main clusters. These are:
1) Overall Leadership and Management of OER, including the Global Food Security Cluster and the Global Network Against Food Crises;
2) Programme Quality and Management, including the Strategic Positioning team, the Evidence for Programming team, the Programme and Results team and the Enabling Environment team;
3) Programme Implementation including the Country Support team, the Global Support team and the Resource Mobilisation and communication team.
Reporting Lines
The Senior Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer reports to the Deputy Director, OER.
Support to implementation of FAO's resilience agenda at global, regional, subregional and/or country level.
Leadership and technical policy expertise for the planning, development and implementation of the Programmes of work, projects, products, services in accordance with FAO’s Strategic Objectives.
• Plans, manages, or leads highly specialized or multidisciplinary teams, leads, coordinates, and/or participates on Organization-wide committees, and provides technical leadership on inter-agency committees, networks and international working groups;
• Contributes to and/or coordinates the planning, budgeting, implementation and reporting of the divisional programme of work, team plans, the supporting policy, tools, standards and systems frameworks and collaborates with the Strategic Objective (SO) Coordinator in (i) the conceptualization of the SO programme; (ii) the supervision and evaluation of the SO contributors; (iii) the identification of resources; (iv) the development of networks and partnerships; (v) the implementation of advocacy and communication activities;
• Oversees and/or provides expert technical assistance to divisional teams focusing on (i) humanitarian Policy, inter-agency collaboration and mobilisation of emergency resources (ii) response, food chain crisis, special operations, level 3 emergency preparedness, early warning and support to transition, and/or (iii) programming, integrating resilience into FAO planning at all levels, and the delivery of related products and services;
• Coordinates FAO interdivisional emergency needs assessment activities and related missions including food and nutrition security assessments and analyses, the coordination of in-country early warning alerts and further coordination with all partners;
• Promotes best practices and provides technical support/services and operational coaching to the Decentralized Office network, designates Division-wide geographical focal points to facilitate emergency programming, resource mobilisation and integration of emergency and development work in countries in collaboration with Regional Offices, and provides capacity during critical phases of emergencies;
• Oversees ongoing operational emergency and recovery projects and programmes and related capacity development in countries and regional and subregional offices;
• Represents FAO on international committees and develops and maintains partnerships and inter-agency collaboration in support of FAO's corporate co-leadership of the global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) and with a range of other partners such as the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, World Food Programme (WFP,) the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other humanitarian groups involved in emergency and recovery activities;
• Coordinates the monitoring and promoting of resource mobilisation activities including corporate appeals, donor macro grants and Central Emergency Revolving Fund (CERF)/Special Fund for Emergency Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA) submissions and collaboration with countries and Regional Offices (Ros) to facilitate resource mobilisation through project and programme formulation;
• Oversees knowledge management activities including the maintenance and updating of FAO emergency information systems, crisis communications, information and advocacy, as well as providing up-to-date information for reporting, audits, evaluations and inputs to FAO governing body documents;
• Performs other duties.
• Leads initiatives to support Country Offices in systematizing the use of contextual analysis for the development of programmes across the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus;
• Coordinates support to Country Offices for the formulation of at scale, high quality, needs and risk-informed programmes and strategies;
• Implements and strengthens a programming support model ensuring complementary roles with regional and subregional emergency and resilience teams, in close partnership with the relevant technical streams;
• Coordinates actions to support strengthening of Country Offices capacities to link analysis, programming and MEAL in an interactive way and to develop tools and approaches to demonstrate emergency and resilience programmes measurable impacts;
• Develops and promotes joint OER-technical streams signature products, on a number of key thematic priorities;
• Promotes collaborative work to intensify joint programmes informed and enhanced by coordinated analysis, with Rome-based Agencies and other UN agencies and partners, through the Global Network Against Food Crises;
• Oversees emergency and resilience programme knowledge management and related capacity development activities, ensuring the development of related materials, online tools and information kits;
• Develops and promotes policy advice and guidance promoting evidence-based programming across the humanitarian, development and peace nexus, closely working with partners and other UN agencies;
• Provides strategic guidance on the investment in employee growth, ensuring diversity, gender balance and engagement of youth.
CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING
• Advanced university degree in agriculture, food security, economics, natural resources, rural development, business administration and management, international relations or other field related to the work of the Organization;
• Ten years of relevant experience in public and/or private sectors related to programming, planning and technical cooperation in food and agriculture, including experience in developing countries, especially in countries that are vulnerable to disaster or other emergency risks;
• Working knowledge of English and limited knowledge of another FAO official language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish).
• Results Focus
• Leading, Engaging and Empowering
• Communication
• Partnering and Advocating
• Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement
• Strategic Thinking
• Work experience in more than one location or area of work, particularly in field positions is essential;
• Demonstrated experience in change management process and in supporting countries in capacity development activities;
• Demonstrated experience in rehabilitation and humanitarian policies development, programme formulation and implementation;
• Extent of relevant experience at international level in formulating policy and programming managing field operations;
• Depth of experience in identifying and preparing programme strategies and policy position on humanitarian and transition contexts, at both global and country levels;
• Experience in response management and surge support coordination.
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