Description of assignment title: Humanitarian Affairs Officer

Assignment country: Yemen

Expected start date: 14/09/2022

Sustainable Development Goal: 16. Peace, justice and strong institutions

Volunteer category: National UN Volunteer Specialist

DoA reserved for persons with disabilities: No

Host entity: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Yemen

Type: Onsite

Duration: 6 months (with possibility of extension)

Number of assignments: 2

Duty stations: Marib, Mokha

Details

Mission and objectives

OCHA's mission is to coordinate the global emergency response to save lives and protect people in humanitarian crises. OCHA advocates for effective and principled humanitarian action by all, for all.

Context

This UNV assignment is part of UNOCHA's efforts to support the humanitarian community's response in Yemen, which is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.

Task description

• -Support the overall management of all monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities planned for YHF funded projects;
• -Prepare and participate in regular OCHA field visits to project sites to monitor implementation of YHF-funded projects, ensuring that implementation is in line with the project proposal and the grant agreement;
• -Support YHF monitoring modalities such as Third Party Monitoring, Remote Call Monitoring for YHF projects as required;
• -Participate in the review of documentation submitted by organizations interested in participating through the YHF Eligibility Process and in drafting reports on the partner’s capacity, following up with the partner on additional documents or information required and responding to queries as necessary;
• -Provide substantial assistance in the management of grants of implementing partners of the Humanitarian Pooled Fund, including reporting, revisions,
• -Support, as necessary, the HFU with the review and revision process of project proposals through consultation with cluster leads and other technical partners and advise NGOs on recommended revisions, assisting partners in revision drafting if required;
• -Support the HFU with the review and revision process of project proposals through consultation with cluster leads and other technical partners and advise NGOs on recommended revisions, assisting partners in revision drafting if required;
• -Attend cluster meeting and other humanitarian coordination fora as required in order to support awareness-raising and training on the HPF’s goals and objectives, grant management and eligibility procedures, monitoring and reporting, and grants management system;
• -Support the collection of information and preparation of information products on the YHF such as dashboards, newsletters and/or interim and annual reports by contacting humanitarian partners or analyzing available project data as required;
• -Support and participate in lessons learned exercises;
• -Plan, support and organize capacity building activities for national NGOs;
• -Represent the HFU at the hub level.
• -Be assigned any other duties as determined by the supervisor.

Eligibility criteria

Age

• 27 - 80

Nationality

• Candidate must be a national or legal resident of the country of assignment.

Requirements

Required experience

• 4 years of experience in in humanitarian affairs, project and grant management or other related areas, preferably with a UN organization or an NGO with bachelor’s degree/ or 2 years with master’s degree
• - Experience with Monitoring and Evaluation of Humanitarian Projects is desirable.
• - Experience and Knowledge of project cycle management is desirable.
• - Very good analytical and writing skills are required,
• - Experience with projects M&E reporting and information analysis is desirable.

Area(s) of expertise

• Development programmes

Languages

• Arabic, Level: Mother tongue, Desirable
• English, Level: Fluent, Desirable

Required education level

• Bachelor degree or equivalent in Political or Social Sciences, Law, International studies, Public Administration, or other relevant science is required.

Competencies and values

• - Professionalism
• - Communication
• - Teamwork
• - Judgment and Decision-making
• - Technological Awareness:
• - Accountability

Other information
Living conditions and remarks
As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials.

Inclusivity statement

United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.

Note on Covid-19 vaccination requirements

Selected candidates for certain occupational groups may be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) in line with the applicable host entity policy