Closing Date: 5 February 2017 (5 pm New York time)
General
Emergencies can severely compromise the capacity of the country office to respond and response capabilities of the regional office require additional support from HQ. The situation therefore requires a rapid Fund-wide response, and in such cases the UNFPA Executive Director declares an internal Level 3 emergency. The IASC Principals who can activate a system wide Level 3 emergency response for rapid scale up of surge support.
The Senior Emergency Coordinator (SEC) oversees and supports the operational roll out of the response in accordance with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
The SEC assumes full responsibility for day-to-day coordination of the response in close consultation with the Regional Director, the Country Office Representative, PD Director and the Humanitarian and Fragile Contexts Branch Chief (HFCB).
Role vis a vis the Country Office
The Emergency Coordinator will work in close collaboration with the CO Representative and staff. However the Emergency Coordinator is not responsible for making country office operational decisions (procurement, finance, reallocation of resources, etc), but will oversee on a daily basis implementation of the SOP and coordination in the operational hubs. The CO Representative will continue to fulfil its representation function (UNCT, HCT, SMT) meetings with governments and donors).
Profile
The Emergency Coordinator will be appointed at D1 or P5 level depending on country context from the internal or external surge rosters. The Chair of the HSC appoints within 48-72 hours the Senior Emergency Coordinator based on recommendations from the Regional Director, PD Director and HFCB Chief. Emergency Coordinator candidates are pre-trained and pre-committed to deployment for 3 months initially .
Reporting
The Senior Emergency Coordinator reports directly to the Chief, HFCB with a “dotted line” to the Country Representative.
Key Deliverables (according to SOP)
• Rapid Response Team comprising of key international internal and external surge is selected and deployed
• UNFPA’s inputs included in the rapid needs assessments/MIRA, etc.
• UNFPA emergency response plan developed and costed
• UNFPA projects integrated into the UN HCT Strategic Response Plan
• M&E plan, with Humanitarian specific performance monitoring measures, developed
• Resource Mobilization Plans developed (linked to M&E plan) and fundraising activities undertaken
• UNFPA’s communication plan developed
• Internal emergency response mechanisms finalized and activated (ie. FTPs, internal SitReps, communications briefs, surge list etc)
• Master Plan developed
• Longer term surge needs identified and CO structure with clear line of reporting developed
• Exit Strategy developed, including handover/Exit report on the status of implementation of SOPs and status of exit strategy to the HFCB Chief with cc to RD at the end of the assignment
We are no longer accepting applications for this position.
