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Position Title: TA Emergency Specialist, P-3, 9Months, Bangui, CAR (SURGE)
Vacancy No: E-VN-2014-000531
Duty Station: Bangui
Country: CAR
Region: WCARO
Job Level:
Position#: TAEMESPP3
Application Close: 13-Mar-14
Contract Type: Temp/Short-term Staff
Background Information:
For 60 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and
territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The
world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports
child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education
for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence,
exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary
contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
Purpose of the Position
The crisis in CAR is a humanitarian catastrophe. Over 2.4m people require humanitarian
assistance and 700,000 people are internally displaced. Even pre-crisis, child survival indicators
were among the worst in the world. While
progress has been made in greater field presence and delivery, the key
indicator for effective scale up of UNICEF’s humanitarian outreach in CAR
July-December 2014 is in children and women assisted through CCC-based
response. The operational platform to
enable this is UNICEF’s field presence in Bouar, Bossangoa, Kaga Bandao and
Bambari. Multiple humanitarian
coordination platforms at internal
levels (Emergency Task Force, Bangui IDP response, Vulnerable Populations
monitoring teams, etc.) and external (Inter-Cluster, HCT, etc.) obligate strong
capacities to enable UNICEF and wider humanitarian country team results. Moreover, strong field support and
coordination capacities are need to enable delivery and flexibility in the way
that the CAR-CO assesses and responds to the emergency needs of children in
line with the CCCs.
Key Expected Results
Since November, UNICEF has employed an L3 Emergency Specialist, based in
Bangui. This function has been essential
in supporting the Bangui (IDP) and field level response including support to
day to day emergency coordination. This
function is to be sustained through 31 December 2014 with focus to three key
accountabilities:
1. Active support for Field Office-level humanitarian action: the 3 UNICEF
Field Offices in Bossangoa, Kaga Bandoro and Bambari, the extended mobile team
presence in Bouar and ad hoc ‘antennas’ in very vulnerable and isolated areas
such as Ndele, Birao or Bangassou. These
need to be supported from the CO level in order to ensure adequate and timely
response. This includes real time monitoring of the humanitarian situation of
women and children, ensuring the presence of technical staff, identifying new
partnerships and other innovative ways to deliver and respond to the needs of
the most vulnerable populations, and communicating on humanitarian alerts and
gaps to the wider humanitarian community.
This function includes elements of Field Operations support in the
development of essential planning and tracking tools for humanitarian delivery
at the Bangui level.
2. Active guidance and support for Mobile teams: the mobile team approach
in CAR is based on a dedicated team (program & operation multi-hats)
focusing to a standard set of activities, starting by the assessment of needs
for most vulnerable women and children across CCC sectors, support to the
monitoring of field responses, identification of new partners, strengthening of
community level partnerships and capacity building of partners for continuity
of services/alternative service delivery. Mobile team mission plans are
prepared by the Emergency Unit in coordination with the Emergency Task Force
that includes Section Chiefs.
3. Inter-agency assessment and response missions: The CO will continue to
engage on a day to day basis with key UN humanitarian partners including WFP,
OCHA and UNHCR in addition to a number of international NGO partners
undertaking multi-sector emergency response across the country. Such a commitment to ensure high quality
standards requires enhanced coordination capacities supported by information
management and dissemination in coordination with external communications
section.
Required support:
This position will enable the CO to ensure the effective monitoring and
support for field teams, to lead and coordinate humanitarian field assignments,
to maintain active reporting and information management and quality assurance
for related field operational support. A
strengthened CO management team including newly surge and newly recruited staff
affords opportunity to deliver results but will require strong emergency
coordination skills, reinforced through the proposed Emergency Field Specialist
function.
Key Deliverables:
Reporting to the Emergency Chief and in support of the Emergency Task
Force, the Emergency Field Coordinator will:
1. Undertake day to day coordination and follow up with field offices and
mobile team missions with emphasis to support on assessment, monitoring,
partnerships, operational support and reporting.
2. Undertake field and mobile team leadership duties as assigned.
3. Monitor and support the strategic review of field response as the basis
for regular Emergency Task Force oversight
4. Support inter-agency planning and coordination at field and Bangui
levels
5. In consultation with office sections, develop and coordinate integrated
monitoring system in areas of emergency response, supply, funding and HR as the basis for
weekly reports to the Emergency Task Force
6. Closely collaborate with the Operations Section to ensure timely
delivery of emergency supply items, financial transactions and support,
continuity of field staff presence, and ICT assistance.
7. Facilitate external communications and related advocacy activities in
consultation with External Communications section and field-based staff.
8. Any other tasks as assigned.
Qualifications of Successful Candidate
Education:
Advanced degree in International Development, Humanitarian Assistance,
Social Sciences and or related areas. *A first university degree with a
relevant combination of academic qualifications and experience may be accepted
in lieu of advanced university degree.*
Working Experience:
Minimum 5 years of relevant working experience in humanitarian action in
Africa. Experience in West or Central
Africa an asset.
Language: Fluent in French. English as a
second language
Competencies of Successful Candidate
i) Core Values
Commitment
Diversity and Inclusion
Integrity
ii) Core Competencies
Communication
Drive for Result
Working With People
iii) Functional Competencies
Applying Technical Expertise
Following Instructions and Procedures
Planning and Organizing
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and
encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious
and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to
become a part of our organisation.
How to Apply:
If you are qualified and interested in discussing this engagement in more
detail,
please submit your resume in confidence to the website on the link below:
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