Zimbabwe’s humanitarian situation remains in a state of fragile stability due to the unaddressed degradation of the basic sector infrastructure, underpinned by economic and political challenges. As a part of the UN Secretariat, the task of OCHA is to mobilize and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors. In this respect, the OCHA Country Office in Zimbabwe continues to work towards strengthening humanitarian coordination and relationships with humanitarian partners, and other relevant actors to advance humanitarian action. Enhanced engagement and partnership with counterparts in the Government, NGOs, regional bodies and donors allows efficient response and transparent coordination with participation of all key stakeholders. To ensure an efficient humanitarian response the OCHA Office continues to ensure response planning based on rigorous and jointly assessed situation analysis. With increased information management capacities, the office focuses on tailoring more user oriented information products to better support inclusive assessments, planning and community based programming as well as ensuring a more systematic coordination of the common humanitarian programme cycle. Given the current and anticipated humanitarian needs and gaps, OCHA Zimbabwe continues to support the Humanitarian Coordinator(HC) and the Humanitarian Country Team(HCT), facilitate humanitarian coordination at national and field level; provide information management services to all humanitarian actors; create linkages between humanitarian and recovery fora in view of political and socio-economic improvements; and provide support to Government and other partners in strengthening disaster preparedness and response capacities
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Duties and Responsibilities |
Technical Support on Disaster/ Emergency Preparedness and Response - Provide technical field support to UN agencies, government and NGOs in the designing and implementation of assessment tools, assessment exercises, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian interventions;
- Initiate and coordinate with government and humanitarian agencies on activities related to Disaster preparedness and response;
- Establish and maintain regular contacts with government officials, UN Agencies, and NGOs to ensure promotion of appropriate mechanisms in disaster preparedness and response;
- Develop and maintain links with national institutions involved in disaster/emergency preparedness and response
- Actively participate in the Consolidated Appeal Processes (CAP), inter-agency contingency planning, Flash Appeals, Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), and the Emergency Response Fund (ERF) to ensure that risk reduction initiatives are incorporated;
- Provide technical support and assistance to the CMU and IMU units in analyzing humanitarian and disaster related issues;
- Support community based initiatives on disaster preparedness and response;
- Facilitate strategic and coordinated support to the Department of Civil Protection by the UN and other humanitarian partners.
Policy development and Programme planning: - Support the Head of Office or the Deputy Head of Office on policy related to disaster preparedness and response;
- Support the CMU Unit by providing analyzed field mission reports;
- Support disaster preparedness and response campaigns regularly organized by the Department of Civil Protection;
- Participate in working groups/cluster meetings to promote coordination through information sharing and collation of humanitarian data;
- Attend to regular meetings of the Government, UN, NGOs and Civil Society actors on Disaster preparedness and responses;
- Support and/or Co-facilitate trainings, workshops and forums on Disaster Related issues at National and Provincial Level;
- Support and/or co-facilitate emergency coordination and response meetings on floods, wind/hailstorms, dry spells, etc. in collaboration with the Department of Civil Protection and other humanitarian partners; leading to the review of the emergency coordination mechanisms and scenarios in the national contingency plan.
Early warning and Early actions monitoring: - Support the Early Warning Mechanisms and Inter-Agency Contingency Planning review process.
Any other tasks that may be assigned: - Conduct field visit missions and provide full support to the local government and humanitarian partners’ coordination structures on Disaster and Emergency Preparedness;
- Carry out any other official duties as required by the Head of Office or Deputy Head of Office.
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Competencies |
Functional Competencies:
Advocacy/Advancing A Policy-Oriented Agenda: Preparing information for advocacy - Identifies and communicates relevant information for a variety of audiences for advocating OCHA’s mandate.
Humanitarian and Operational Effectiveness: Preparing information for humanitarian action - Ability to lead strategic planning, results-based management and reporting;
- Ability to lead formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian programmes and projects, resources mobilization, etc.
- Good knowledge of the Results Management Guide and Toolkit;
- Strong IT skills.
Building Strategic Partnerships: Maintaining a network of contacts - Maintains an established network of contacts for general information sharing and to remain up-to-date on partnership related issues;
- Analyzes and selects materials for strengthening strategic alliances with partners and stakeholders.
Innovation and Marketing New Approaches: Enhancing processes or products - Generates new ideas and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things;
- Documents and analyses innovative strategies/best practices/new approaches.
Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing: Basic research and analysis - Generates new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things;
- Documents and analyses innovative strategies and new approaches.
Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise: Fundamental knowledge of own discipline - Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principles of a professional discipline or technical specialty relating to the position;
- Possesses basic knowledge of organizational policies and procedures relating to the position and applies them consistently in work tasks;
- Strives to keep job knowledge up-to-date through self-directed study and other means of learning;
- Demonstrates good knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments;
- Demonstrates in-depth understanding and knowledge of the current guidelines and project management tools and utilizes these regularly in work assignments.
Client Orientation: Establishing effective client relationships - Researches potential solutions to internal and external client needs and reports back in a timely, succinct and appropriate fashion;
- Organizes and prioritizes work schedule to meet client needs and deadlines;
- Anticipates client needs and addresses them promptly.
Core Competencies: - Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity;
- Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment;
- Self-development, initiative-taking;
- Acting as a team player and facilitating team work;
- Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively;
- Creating synergies through self-control;
- Managing conflict;
- Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others. Promoting learning and knowledge management/sharing is the responsibility of each staff member;
- Informed and transparent decision making.
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Required Skills and Experience |
| Education: - Masters Degree in Social Sciences/Disaster Management or related field.
Experience: - At least 2 years relevant experience in Humanitarian work and Computer Literacy.
Language Requirements: - Fluency in English and Shona and or Ndebele.
N.B. UNDP Zimbabwe reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement. We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP Zimbabwe at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and education requirements.
QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. |
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| UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. |
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