Programme Officer (Joint Resilience Programme Coordination), NOB, Temporary Appointment (TA),364 days, Dhusamareeb /Galkayo (open to Somali Nationals Only)

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, in every single place, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

For each youngster, Safety

Somalia is vulnerable to frequent and recurrent Climatic shocks, together with flooding and drought. For a majority of communities within the nation that depend upon agricultural or pastoralist livelihoods, this may have a direct and detrimental affect on meals and vitamin safety.

These shocks can result in lack of family earnings, and to adverse coping methods that will change patterns of meals acquisition and consumption or erode productive property and human capital – for instance, as youngsters are pulled out of faculty and households undergo diminished financial entry to wash water and well being companies. Shocks can even have an effect on meals techniques, constraining market availability of meals gadgets and driving up costs and decreasing labour alternatives in each city and rural areas.

Investing in local weather resilient livelihoods and local weather resilient programme shouldn’t be solely an vital defence towards these recurrent meals safety threats in Somalia however can also be important to empower weak populations to interrupt the cycle of poverty, starvation, and malnutrition.

Since 2018, the Joint Resilient Motion Technique (JRA) is being applied by the United Nations World Meals Programme (WFP), the United Nations Kids’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Meals and Agriculture Group of the United Nations (FAO). It’s supposed to insulate households from the quick affect of the frequent shocks in Somalia and the related family meals and money earnings deficits and adverse coping methods, which undermine growth beneficial properties and signify a important barrier to enabling households to construct resilience. The last word goal of the JRA is to cut back the humanitarian caseload.

How will you make a distinction?

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Act because the technical coordination and resilience knowledgeable focus for the Joint Resilience Programme, KFW funded and applied collectively by UNICEF, and WFP. 
2. As a technical knowledgeable, present well timed and efficient knowledgeable recommendation, steerage and enter on programme technique, planning, implementation, state of affairs evaluation and analysis and human sources. Work throughout UNICEF and WFP sections on implementation of built-in options all through the programme cycle. Present technical and operational assist by way of all phases of programming to make sure integration, coherence, and harmonization of the programme.
3. Coordinate with PME and Sections for them to offer e high quality of resilience and local weather change programming by way of assortment of proof and information to arrange them to spotlight resilience challenges, greatest practices, and identification of latest alternatives. Guarantee gender and safety lens is mainstreamed by way of praxis.   
4. Undertake common on-site monitoring of JRP actions. Be sure that all goal villages are visited commonly and undertake direct supervision. Additionally coordinate with M & E focus to offer technical assist when required.
5. Construct and preserve strategic broader partnerships on resilience and guarantee coordination of our work throughout sectors and with related companions/Authorities. Observe up on suggestions from technical specialists on implementation progress, challenges, greatest practices, and identification of latest alternatives are shared and mentioned.
6. Manage and report on companion and stakeholder coordination, battle sensitivity, Assist Diversion, and group engagement. Function as a focus for linkage of JRP programmes with different programmes equivalent to JPLG and Baxnaano. Play a key position in facilitating cross sectoral coordination amongst cooperating companions (Well being, vitamin, training, livelihoods, security nets) and different key authorities stakeholders of the undertaking.  
7. Assist information administration, compilation, and overview of cross sectorial discipline information and thru coordination of discipline analysis. Doc classes learnt to recommendation heading in the right direction correction of interventions as and when wanted. Assist inside observe up on technical suggestions and particular request from donor.
8. Put together correct and well timed reporting and studying, contributing to a information base that informs choice making for WFP, UNICEF, and different stakeholders for steady enchancment.
9. Manage JRP technical working teams at FMS/district degree and different overview conferences and analysis workouts in session with Resilience Specialist, Programme Managers, different UN businesses and authorities companions.
10. Observe up JRP exercise workplans, budgets and monitoring information; present the required data and evaluation for donor stories; coordinate undertaking actions with UNICEF and WFP the place needed together with joint monitoring discipline missions; present joint coaching and proposals to the Cooperating Companions; and facilitate the hyperlink and alternate with the road ministries at technical degree.
11. Perform different associated duties as required by the Resilience Specialist in assist of the programme.

Outcomes/anticipated outputs.

As an lively staff member, environment friendly, well timed, responsive, client-friendly, and high-quality assist rendered to UNICEF and WFP and its beneficiaries within the accomplishment of her/his capabilities, together with:

• Joint resilience programme is efficiently applied, and monetary sources are adequately utilized in step with undertaking workplans and donor necessities.
• Guarantee environment friendly, common, and documented coordination and observe up on agreed actions with companions of the Joint resilience Programme inside and out of doors UNICEF.
• Construct environment friendly relationship with authorities to make sure agreed workplan is applied.
• Contribute to UNICEF and WFP cross sectoral resilience and peace constructing and local weather change programmes technique and Humanitarian Improvement Nexus. 
• Emergency and Programme UNICEF WFP staff supported in shaping resilience absorption and adaptation programming.
• Be sure that danger mitigation measures are put in place by way of a eager eye for any risk of diversion, advocate quick course correction as wanted.
• Efficient observe up suggestion with respective technical sections. 
• Donor reporting deadline are well timed and coordinated with the sections.
• Age, Gender and Range (AGD) perspective is systematically utilized, built-in, and documented in all actions all through the task.

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have…

• A primary College Diploma in Social Sciences, Worldwide Relations, Neighborhood Improvement or one other related discipline.
• A minimal of [two years] of related skilled expertise is requires.
• Creating nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset.
• Sturdy grants and undertaking administration expertise, together with reporting.
• Expertise working with a KFW grant is an asset.
• Expertise in proposal growth is an asset.
• Understanding of the socio-political context of Somalia could be a bonus.
• Sturdy Coordination Expertise and communication expertise, together with a capability to construct rapport with people and teams and preserve an efficient community of people throughout organizational departments, businesses, and governments.
• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

For each Little one, you show…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin the whole lot we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness(3)Drive to realize outcomes for affect(4)Innovates and embraces change(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity(6)Thinks and acts strategically(7)Works collaboratively with others.

Through the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

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Remarks:

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