ПРООН в Україні шукає Field Associate (UNOCHA)

Agency: UNOCHA
Vacancy End Date (Midnight New York, USA): 16/07/2019
Duty Station: Luhansk, Ukraine
Education & Work Experience: C-HS Graduate or Equivalent – 7 year(s) experience, G-Bachelor’s Level Degree – 4 year(s) experience
Contract Duration: 1 Year with possibility for extension

Background
The Field Associate (FA) works under the overall supervision of the Field Coordination Officer of the OCHA Office in Luhansk. This position provides the essential interface between the UN system, members of the NGO community, local and national disaster management authorities.

Duties and Responsibilities
Summary of Functions:
1.Provide support to OCHA Office in Luhansk in preparedness and emergency response:
Preparedness:
•Support a constant information flow between the relevant authorities and OCHA Office in Luhansk on conflict/disaster related information;
•Support coordination of humanitarian assistance by national and international partners;
•Provide support to NGOs, the UN and national and local authorities in strengthening their disaster response capacity by:
•Support mapping of emergency response preparedness capacities;
•Support inter-agency information management platform for emergency response preparedness;
•Support development of common operational data for preparedness and response;
•Monitor early warning indicators and assist in preparation qualitative/quantitative reports;
•Support preparation and update of situation reports following any new development and emergency situations;
•Support collecting of standardized and qualitative information from individual agency by cluster approach;
•Coordinate training needs identification of staff members;
•Support circulation of relevant early warning information amongst NGOs and UN partners.

Emergency Response:
•Support the dissemination of relevant information to the in-country Humanitarian partners and authorities, as appropriate;
•Ensure support for all other administrative and substantive processes required for successful fulfilment of OCHA mandate in Ukraine.

2. Supports building efficient strategic partnerships and advocacy effort with all relevant stakeholders by:
•Identifying and developing opportunities for successful networking and partnership building with the national and regional authorities, NGOs/lNGOs on the ground;
•Raising awareness among NGOs, the UN, national and local authorities in the matters related to advocacy and strengthening their emergency response capacity;
•Support in establishing partnerships with other humanitarian agencies in the assigned region;
•Assist in strengthening of the local level networks to gather information from the field, including from local communities and partners;
•Ensure assistance for all other operational processes required for successful fulfilment of UNOCHA mandate in Ukraine.

3. Administrative/field support functions focusing on achievement of the following results:
•Ensure supervision of travel services and provision of support to personnel during field missions;
•Supervision of staff travel and vehicle fleet management, including managing vehicle registration coordination;
•Collection of data and other information relevant to OCHA and report to the supervisor accordingly;
•Gather and process information on humanitarian needs and responses;
•In coordination with humanitarian partners, assist in provision of assistance in the areas of information and coordination management;
•Keep regular contacts with local authorities, humanitarian partners as requested by supervisor;
•Support interoperability and data exchange within UN agencies and NGOs;
•Perform any other duties as assigned by the Supervisor.

4. Supports facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing through:
•Identification, documenting and drafting of best practices and lessons learned;
•Briefing/debriefing of staff members on issues relating to area of work;
•Sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.

Impact of Results:
The key results have an impact on the success of preparedness and emergency response of the humanitarian community in Ukraine within specific areas of coordination and information sharing. In particular, the key results have an impact on the design, operation and programming of joint inter-agency preparedness and emergency response activities, establishing strategic partnerships and advocacy effort with relevant stakeholders.

Competencies:

Functional Competencies:
•Professionalism;
•Communication;
•Teamwork;
•Planning & Organizing;
•Accountability.

Core Competencies:
•Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity;
•Demonstrating corporate knowledge and sound judgment;
•Self-development, initiative-taking;
•Acting as a team player and facilitating team work;
•Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others;
•Promoting learning and knowledge management/sharing is the responsibility of each staff member;
•Informed and transparent decision making.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:
•Secondary Education. Undergraduate university degree in Political Science, International Relations, Administration, Philology/Linguistics or other related field is desired but is not a requirement.

Experience:
•7 years (with secondary education) or 4 years (with Bachelor degree) of progressively responsible experience in office management, administration, support in coordination or other related field is required;
•Familiarity with UN system and the field of humanitarian affairs is an asset;
•Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc) is required;

Language Requirements:
•Fluent written and spoken English, Ukrainian and Russian.

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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: July 16, 2019