Deadline: 23 March, 2021
Location: Bamako, Mali
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is seeking to fill the role of Emergency Officer.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, reaching the most disadvantaged children and saving their lives.
Responsibilities
- Ensure timely and thorough analysis is made to identify emergency-prone situations and contribute to early warning, enhancing emergency preparedness
- Ensure effective analysis of available data regarding the evolving emergency situation and its implications to the operation are timely provided for the provision of monthly sitreps and other ad hoc reports
- Support constant flow of information and communication for the planning and implementation of emergencies responses
- Ensure professional support is provided to establish facts and needs
- Coordinate a rapid assessment and determine priorities and an appropriate intervention by UNICEF
- Ensure substantive professional contributions are made to the formulation of emergency plans of action, contingency plans, and monitoring of compliance with plans of action
- Ensure emergency preparedness and response plans addresses gender issues
- Ensure prompt support is provided to execute the initial operational tasks by collecting accurate information on the nature and scope of emergency
- Ensure disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness and response strategies are mainstreamed in the country office’s workplans
Requirements
- University degree in Social Sciences, Public Health, Nutrition, International Relations, or a related discipline
- Two years, minimum, of relevant professional work experience at the national and/or international level in programme/project development, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation in emergency settings
- Knowledge of an additional UN language or local language of the duty station will be an asset
- Fluency in French and English (oral and in writing)
To apply and for more information, click here.
Photo source: UNICEF Ethiopia
