Overview
The Humanitarian Affairs Officer will be responsible for all aspects of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle, including needs assessment, analysis, and response planning, with a focus on response monitoring and analysis.
Key Responsibilities
- Works on all aspects of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) - including needs assessment/analysis and response planning, to inform collective and strategic humanitarian decision-making—with a particular emphasis on response monitoring and analysis.
- Supports the development of guidance and tools, the collection of learning and good practice, and the provision of field support on the humanitarian programme cycle, including needs assessment/analysis and response planning, with a particular emphasis on response monitoring and analysis.
- Deploys, as required, to support humanitarian programme cycle work in the field, as well as on humanitarian surge and support missions, as requested, as part of OCHA's surge capacity, in particular to support humanitarian response monitoring and analysis.
- Monitors, analyzes and reports on humanitarian developments, disaster relief/management or emergency situations on coordinated needs assessments, needs and response analysis, planning and other aspects of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC).
- Organizes and prepares studies, analysis and reporting on humanitarian, emergency relief and related issues; organizes follow-up work, including interagency technical review meetings to support global policy development work and decision-making.
- Partners with other humanitarian agencies to plan and evaluate humanitarian and emergency assistance programmes and help ensure that latest findings, lessons learned, policy guidelines, etc. are incorporated into these activities, including for emergency anticipatory action, emergency response preparedness, and response planning.
- Assists in the coordination of international humanitarian/emergency assistance for complex emergency/disaster situations, including support to response preparedness, needs assessments and analysis, response monitoring and analysis and response planning; ensures the proper use and spending of donor contributions channeled through OCHA.
- Establishes and maintains contacts with government officials, other UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, diplomatic missions, media, etc.
- Participates in large, complex projects to include disaster assessment or other missions; assists in the coordination of international humanitarian/emergency assistance for complex emergency/disaster situations and in ensuring the necessary support (e.g. staff, funding, specialized equipment, supplies, etc.); in particular on needs assessment and analysis to feed into response planning.
- Supports the production of the annual Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) liaising with OCHA country offices and partners as requested, supports the advancement of Anticipatory Action (AA) in the HPC, including through updates to normative guidance.
- Reviews and provides advice on policy issues related to safeguarding humanitarian principles and ensuring the effective delivery of humanitarian assistance including on inclusion and accountability issues. Supports the design and policy development for software platforms related to response monitoring, analysis and other aspects of the HPC.
- Organizes participates and/or facilitates work groups, meetings, workshops and trainings including consulting internally and with partners on learning needs, capacity requirements and lessons learnt related to humanitarian and emergency relief-related matters falling under the humanitarian program cycle, in particular with respect to humanitarian response monitoring and analysis.
- Provides guidance to, and may supervise, new/junior staff.
- Performs other duties as required.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian affairs, emergency preparedness, crisis/emergency relief management, rehabilitation, development, or other related area is required.
- Experience implementing the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) in a country context or supporting country offices in implementing the HPC is required.
- At least two (2) years of field experience in the last five (5) years in response monitoring and analysis is desirable.
- Experience in contingency planning and needs assessment is desirable.
- Experience in a humanitarian context within the UN common system or in a comparable international organization is desirable.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in political science, social science, public administration, international studies, economics, engineering, earth sciences or a related field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
