Deadline: 25 August, 2022
Location: Accra, Ghana
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer.
FAO is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
Responsibilities
- Plan and lead components of multi-disciplinary teams
- Coordinate and/or participate in organisation-wide committees, and provide technical expertise to international committees and working groups
- Develop and update the supporting approach, methodology, tools, systems/databases, policies and/or standards to support programme delivery and specific objectives, services and outputs of divisional teams
- Develop position papers, proposals and/or policy briefs to support humanitarian policy development, and coordination and liaison with international partners such as the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), WFP, UNHCR, UNICEF, NGOs and other humanitarian groups involved in emergency and recovery activities
- Undertake FAO emergency needs assessment activities and missions
- Conduct food and nutrition security assessments and analysis
- Coordinate in-country early warning alerts
- Provide technical support to ongoing operational emergency and recovery projects and programmes and related capacity development in countries
- Promote best practices and provide technical support/services to decentralised offices
- Monitor, promote and coordinate resource mobilisation activities including corporate appeals, donor macro grants, central emergency revolving fund/special fund for emergency rehabilitation activities submissions, annual appeals and midyear reviews, as well as collaborate with countries and subregional offices to facilitate resource mobilisation through project and programme formulation
- Maintain and update FAO emergency information systems, crisis communications, information and advocacy, as well as providing up-to-date information for reporting, audits, evaluations and inputs
- Perform other related duties as required
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in Agriculture, Economics, Business Management, International Relations, or a related field
- Seven years of relevant experience in public and/or private sectors related to programming, planning and technical cooperation in food and agriculture, including experience in developing countries, especially in countries that are vulnerable to disaster or other emergency risks
- Working knowledge of English and limited knowledge of another FAO official language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish)
To apply and for more information, click here.
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