Overview
The Humanitarian Affairs Associate provides programme support for the Coordination Unit, including supporting coordination meetings, engagement with partners, emergency response preparedness, and knowledge building.
Tasks Summary
- Provide coordination support functions to OCHA Pakistan, the government, donors, and humanitarian actors.
- Ensure information collection, analysis, and sharing in support of Humanitarian Analysis and Response.
- Support Emergency Response Preparedness, Emergency Response, Coordination Architecture, and Reporting.
- Support knowledge building and sharing (including taking minutes, developing concept notes, and talking points).
- Support communication plan, media coverage, and digital footprint anchored on strong analytical and writing skills.
Experience Requirements
- Minimum of 7 years (with a high school diploma) or 4 years (with a bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience with UN/ International Organization/ Government/ civil-society engagement is required.
- Progressive experience in large humanitarian organizations such as the United Nations, Large NGOs, etc., in humanitarian coordination, Inter-sector/cluster coordination, emergency response preparedness/contingency planning, emergency response, needs assessments/analysis/report writing, and project coordination or field operations is desired.
- Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.), database packages, and web-based management systems such as ERP is required.
- Demonstrated experience in developing a humanitarian response plan, preparedness plan, and capacity building within the UN System, including the humanitarian programme cycle and Sector/ Cluster System, is desired.
- Demonstrated experience in humanitarian coordination and the application of humanitarian policies, needs assessment, and cluster coordination.
- Experience in building and maintaining effective partner networks and partnerships in the humanitarian or development sector is desirable.
- Experience in conducting needs assessments and drafting programmatic/assessment/mission reports is desirable.
Qualification Requirements
- Secondary education (high school) is required.
- OR A first university degree (Bachelor's) in International Relations / International Development, Political Science, Social Sciences, Humanitarian Affairs / Disaster Management, Public Administration / Public Policy, Geography / Environmental Studies, Peace & Conflict Studies, or Media & Community Studies, or related field will be given due consideration, but is not a requirement.
