January 22, 2025
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Job Opportunity at Islamabad: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) Hiring “Humanitarian Affairs Associate”

Promising Job Opportunity at United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), Islamabad.
OCHA mobilizes and coordinates principled humanitarian response in partnership with national and international actors in order to alleviate human suffering in disasters and emergencies, advocates the rights of people in need, supports emergency preparedness and response, and facilitates sustainable solutions for vulnerable people adversely affected by conflict and natural disaster.
OCHA has been scaling up its operations focusing on its key functions of coordination, information management, resource mobilization and advocacy. At the national level, OCHA plans to enhance its reporting and communication capacity to increase situational awareness of climate induced emergencies. OCHA has opened the position of “Humanitarian Affairs Associate (GS-7)” to strengthen its coordination function and support Anticipatory Action (AA) and Pooled Fund management. Job Details are as follows:

Required Skills and Experience:

Education:

  • Secondary education (high school) is required.
  • A first university degree (Bachelors) in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Political Sciences, Social Sciences, or related field will be given due consideration but is not a requirement.

Experience:

  • Minimum of 7 years (with high school diploma) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant progressive experience in the field of Coordination of humanitarian affairs or reconstruction/development programs and project management with UN or International Organizations is required.
  • Experience in humanitarian financing (CERF and country-based pooled fund) and grant management systems (GMS) is desirable.
  • Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.), database packages, and web-based management systems such as ERP is required.
  • Demonstrated experience in humanitarian coordination and the application of humanitarian policies, needs assessment and cluster coordination is desired.
  • Experience in programmatic report writing is desirable.
  • Experience of building and maintaining effective partner networks and partnerships in the humanitarian or development sector is desirable.
  • Ability to research, analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information desirable.
  • Experience in conducting needs assessments and drafting assessment/mission report desirable.

Required languages:

  • Fluency in English and Urdu is required.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Summary of Key Functions is as below:

  • Ensure humanitarian Coordination functions are executed at the OCHA country office and sub-offices.
  • Information collection and sharing in support of Humanitarian Analysis and Response.
  • Ensure engagement, coordination and cooperation mechanisms among stakeholders
  • Monitoring and Reporting.
  • Facilitation of knowledge-building and knowledge sharing

Core Competencies:

  • Achieve Results:  LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
  • Think Innovatively:  LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements 
  • Learn Continuously:  LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
  • Adapt with Agility:  LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible 
  • Act with Determination:  LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
  • Engage and Partner:  LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
  • Enable Diversity and Inclusion:  LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination 

Last Date to Apply: 23 January, 2025
To Apply: Please visit and apply online at

https://estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/23284

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