Humanitarian Affairs Officer

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Mission and objectives

OCHA's mission is to coordinate the global emergency response to save lives and protect people in humanitarian crises. OCHA advocates for effective and principled humanitarian action by all, for all.

Context

This UNV assignment is part of UNOCHA's efforts to support the humanitarian community's response in Yemen, which is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.

Task description

-Support the overall management of all monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities planned for YHF funded projects; -Prepare and participate in regular OCHA field visits to project sites to monitor implementation of YHF-funded projects, ensuring that implementation is in line with the project proposal and the grant agreement; -Support YHF monitoring modalities such as Third Party Monitoring, Remote Call Monitoring for YHF projects as required; -Participate in the review of documentation submitted by organizations interested in participating through the YHF Eligibility Process and in drafting reports on the partner’s capacity, following up with the partner on additional documents or information required and responding to queries as necessary; -Provide substantial assistance in the management of grants of implementing partners of the Humanitarian Pooled Fund, including reporting, revisions, -Support, as necessary, the HFU with the review and revision process of project proposals through consultation with cluster leads and other technical partners and advise NGOs on recommended revisions, assisting partners in revision drafting if required; -Support the HFU with the review and revision process of project proposals through consultation with cluster leads and other technical partners and advise NGOs on recommended revisions, assisting partners in revision drafting if required; -Attend cluster meeting and other humanitarian coordination fora as required in order to support awareness-raising and training on the HPF’s goals and objectives, grant management and eligibility procedures, monitoring and reporting, and grants management system; -Support the collection of information and preparation of information products on the YHF such as dashboards, newsletters and/or interim and annual reports by contacting humanitarian partners or analyzing available project data as required; -Support and participate in lessons learned exercises; -Plan, support and organize capacity building activities for national NGOs; -Represent the HFU at the hub level. -Be assigned any other duties as determined by the supervisor.