Overview
Support UNICEF Pacific’s humanitarian and Disaster Risk Financing (DRF) agenda by contributing to the operationalization, coordination, and country-level alignment of financing mechanisms. The role focuses on strengthening linkages between risk analytics, financing triggers, and money-out systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in the coordination and operational follow-up of regional DRF mechanisms, including PCRIC Replica insurance, contingent grant mechanisms, and anticipatory action protocols.
- Support the documentation and analysis of trigger mechanisms, expected outflows, and country-specific use cases.
- Contribute to internal briefings and summaries on DRF instruments.
- Support mapping and review of money-out systems at country level.
- Assist in identifying operational bottlenecks related to logistics, pre-positioning, and partner readiness.
- Contribute to lessons-learned reviews following activations or simulations of DRF and anticipatory action mechanisms.
- Support UNICEF engagement with national governments on DRF-related topics.
- Assist in preparing background notes, talking points, and briefing materials for joint discussions with government counterparts and regional partners.
- Support consolidation of guidance, tools, and learning products emerging from the Pacific DRF work.
- Contribute to cross-regional knowledge exchange by documenting Pacific experiences.
Required Experience
3 years of relevant experience in humanitarian preparedness, emergency response, and/or anticipatory action in development or humanitarian contexts. Experience in disaster risk financing, climate resilience, insurance, social protection, or public finance from an operational or programme support perspective. Skills in supporting analysis, documentation, and coordination of humanitarian or DRF initiatives. Skills in stakeholder engagement, including collaboration with government counterparts and regional partners.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Disaster Risk Management, International Development / Development Studies, Economics, Finance, or Public Policy, Humanitarian Affairs or International Relations, or Climate Change, Environmental Studies, or Resilience Studies.
