National Humanitarian Affairs Officer

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Mission and objectives

OCHA is part of the United Nations Secretariat responsible for bringing together humanitarian actors to ensure a coherent response to emergencies. OCHA's mission is to coordinate the global emergency response to save lives and protect people in humanitarian crisis advocating for effective and principled humanitarian action by all and for all. OCHA core functions are: Coordination: Coordinate humanitarian response to expand the reach of humanitarian action, improve prioritization and reduce duplication, ensuring that assistance and protection reach the people who need it most. Advocacy: Raise awareness of forgotten crises, promote respect for international humanitarian law (IHL), bring the voices of crisis-affected people to the forefront, and help people obtain access to humanitarian assistance. Policy: Support setting the agenda for humanitarian sector reform and effectiveness in response to a shifting global landscape, new global frameworks, and increased capacities of national Governments and local actors. Humanitarian Financing: Mobilize and engage the full range of financing instruments, mechanisms, and partners to ensure that growing humanitarian needs are met and the large array of global humanitarian financing mechanisms are complementary among themselves and coherent with development funding. Information Management: Provide information management services to the humanitarian community to inform a rapid, effective, and principled response. OCHA’s country office in Myanmar was established in 2008 to respond to cyclone Nargis. The overall aim of the office is to assist humanitarian action undertaken by the Humanitarian Country Team, which comprises UN agencies, international and national non-governmental organizations, and observers (i.e. Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, donors). OCHA Myanmar has a network of sub-offices around the country.

Context

Non-Family Duty Station

Task description

1. Supports the monitoring and consolidation of information on the humanitarian access situation and drafts regular updates/reports focusing on the following: • Monitor the humanitarian access situation in the country, as well as gathering and consolidating humanitarian information on access challenges from different sources and stakeholders. • Record access constraints in the OCHA Access Monitoring and Reporting Framework (AMRF). • Provide trend analysis on the access environment based on the AMRF. • Support the the timely production of OCHA Myanmar humanitarian reporting and advocacy products, including but not limited to:  Monthly Access Dashboard  Quarterly Access Analytical Report  Daily Operational Update  Country Office Internal Report  Input to Regional Office (ROAP) Weekly Snapshot  Humanitarian Flash Updates (as required)  Themed advocacy products for OCHA’s digital platforms as determined by the Senior Management • Draft regular access reports/humanitarian updates on Myanmar as required for internal and external use and ensure briefings are available on the country’s access environment, as appropriate; • Support drafting of speaking points and advocacy messaging for senior management as requested • Participate in relevant meetings and workshops, and ensure consolidated information, data and analysis are provided. 2. Ensures facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge management focusing on achievement of the following results: • Identification and synthesis of best practice and lessons learned on principled humanitarian access and protection of humanitarian space. • Support to training initiatives on principled humanitarian access as appropriate, including building the capacity of OCHA field staff and NGO partners. Results/Expected Outputs The key result is to support effective communications and dissemination of information on humanitarian access issues in Myanmar. Accurate analysis and presentation of information enhances understanding of humanitarian issues and concerns. The information provided facilitates decision making of management and the humanitarian community. Key outputs are as follows: - • Access constraints in the Access Monitoring and Reporting Framework are recorded in a timely and accurate manner • Access inputs to access products, daily operational updates, internal reports and inputs to ROAP regional Snapshots are timely, relevant and triangulated