Humanitarian Affairs Officer/Assessment Coordinator,
Sana'a, Yemen
OCHA - Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Closing date: Wednesday, 2 May 2018
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Responsibilities
Within delegated authority, the Humanitarian Affairs Officer/Assessment Coordinator will be responsible for the following duties:
• Facilitate and lead efforts to harmonize a common approach to assessment and monitoring. Support, maintain and lead the assessment working group and can plan and manage the rollout of inter/multi-cluster needs assessments in complex humanitarian context.
• Organizes and prepares studies on humanitarian, emergency relief and related issues.
• Organizes follow-up work, including interagency technical review meetings to support policy development work and decision-making on important issues
• Drafts and prepares regular situation papers/reports highlighting relevant operational factors affecting the humanitarian situation and response efforts.
• Prepares or contributes to the preparation of various written reports, documents and communications, e.g. drafts sections of studies, background papers, policy guidelines,parliamentary documents, briefings, case studies, presentations, correspondence, talking points, etc.
• Provides support and guidance on needs assessment design to ensure high quality data capture in humanitarian crisis. Manages, develops and provides platforms and tools that support data collection such as KoBo Toolbox and Open Data Kit. Support MIRA, inter-cluster data collection, trainings and analysis activities including humanitarian needs overview, secondary data reviews, preliminary scenario definitions.
• Ensures appropriate monitoring and reporting mechanisms; provides information and advice on a range of related issues.
• Reviews and provides advice on policy issues related to safeguarding humanitarian principles and ensuring the effective delivery of humanitarian assistance.
• 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 gender- related considerations.
• Provides substantial support to sector / cluster working groups as required and facilitate exchange on cross cutting issues.
• Establishes and maintains contacts with government officials, other UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, diplomatic missions, media, etc.
• Supports advocacy initiatives on issues impacting humanitarian needs and response efforts through the collection of information, liaison with humanitarian partners, government officials, the media, etc.
• Provides training and building capacity of partners in the areas of multi-cluster needs assessment, MIRA, sampling in humanitarian need assessment..
• Undertakes and provides support to technical assistance and other field missions, e.g. participates in field trips to undertake in-depth reviews of specific country work mechanisms.
• Organizes and participates in working groups, meetings, conferences, consultations with other agencies and partners on humanitarian and emergency relief-related matters.
• Performs other duties as required.
• Facilitate and lead efforts to harmonize a common approach to assessment and monitoring. Support, maintain and lead the assessment working group and can plan and manage the rollout of inter/multi-cluster needs assessments in complex humanitarian context.
• Organizes and prepares studies on humanitarian, emergency relief and related issues.
• Organizes follow-up work, including interagency technical review meetings to support policy development work and decision-making on important issues
• Drafts and prepares regular situation papers/reports highlighting relevant operational factors affecting the humanitarian situation and response efforts.
• Prepares or contributes to the preparation of various written reports, documents and communications, e.g. drafts sections of studies, background papers, policy guidelines,parliamentary documents, briefings, case studies, presentations, correspondence, talking points, etc.
• Provides support and guidance on needs assessment design to ensure high quality data capture in humanitarian crisis. Manages, develops and provides platforms and tools that support data collection such as KoBo Toolbox and Open Data Kit. Support MIRA, inter-cluster data collection, trainings and analysis activities including humanitarian needs overview, secondary data reviews, preliminary scenario definitions.
• Ensures appropriate monitoring and reporting mechanisms; provides information and advice on a range of related issues.
• Reviews and provides advice on policy issues related to safeguarding humanitarian principles and ensuring the effective delivery of humanitarian assistance.
• 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 gender- related considerations.
• Provides substantial support to sector / cluster working groups as required and facilitate exchange on cross cutting issues.
• Establishes and maintains contacts with government officials, other UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, diplomatic missions, media, etc.
• Supports advocacy initiatives on issues impacting humanitarian needs and response efforts through the collection of information, liaison with humanitarian partners, government officials, the media, etc.
• Provides training and building capacity of partners in the areas of multi-cluster needs assessment, MIRA, sampling in humanitarian need assessment..
• Undertakes and provides support to technical assistance and other field missions, e.g. participates in field trips to undertake in-depth reviews of specific country work mechanisms.
• Organizes and participates in working groups, meetings, conferences, consultations with other agencies and partners on humanitarian and emergency relief-related matters.
• Performs other duties as required.