Overview
The Associate Emergency Preparedness Officer focuses on emergency preparedness, development of guidance and tools, strategic planning, and emergency response capacity development. The incumbent will support operations and Regional Bureaux to prepare for emergencies and contribute to global crisis horizon scanning.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide support to country operations and RBs on emergency preparedness and response.
- Contribute to monitoring of preparedness levels in field operations.
- Liaise with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to the development of new approaches for emergency risk analysis.
- Support the development and innovation of UNHCR’s early warning and preparedness platforms and tools.
- Assist in undertaking regular horizon scanning of potential new and escalating emergencies.
- Contribute to open source monitoring of situations of concern and emerging risks.
- Participate in section's discussions on risk detection and analysis.
- Ensure that UNHCR's Global Strategic Priorities and commitments are reflected in relevant preparedness methodologies and situational analyses.
- Support in innovating approaches to standardized training.
- Undertake short missions in relation to preparedness, training and capacity building.
- Possibly, deploy as a team member to humanitarian emergency field situations (max. 3-month field mission).
- Support the development and updating of UNHCR (and, where appropriate, inter-agency) emergency policies and tools.
- Contribute to the emergency management system.
- Participate in the collection and analysis of information regarding lessons learned and best practice on preparedness.
- Draft a variety of documents ranging from emergency cell meeting notes, summaries on emergency preparedness progress and briefing notes.
- Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives.
- Perform other related duties as required.
Required Experience
3 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 2 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 1 year relevant experience with Doctorate degree. Two years of relevant working experience; preferably including at least one year in humanitarian field operations or similar outside the home country.
Qualifications
Humanitarian Aid; Development Studies; Law; Political Science; Social Science; International Relations; Conflict Management or another relevant field.
