Country: Mozambique
Closing date: 12 Jul 2016
CANADEM is seeking individuals (Canadian citizens or permanent residents) with previous relevant experience who are fluent in Portuguese or Spanish or Italian and English and are available for an immediate deployment to Mozambique as a seconded expert with OCHA for a 6 months contract.
Post title and level: Humanitarian Affairs Officer (P3/P4)
Duty Station Country and Location: Mozambique, Maputo
Brief description of emergency outbreak/upsurge and the consequences for OCHA:
Mozambique is facing a severe drought in the southern and central region due to El Nino conditions which prevailed during the entire 2015/2016- raining season. Seven provinces are affected and 73 districts with alarming levels of food insecurity which is expected to deteriorate by early 2017, unless the affected populations' have significant access to food and income. Current estimates indicate that 1.5 million people are in food insecurity situation and need humanitarian response.
The Government and the humanitarian country team (HCT) with the resources guarantied so far (June 2016) will be able to assist with food at least 600,000 people in the next three months (July - September).The complexity of this emergency in terms of magnitude, people in need, type of assistance, geographical scope and huge funding gap is demanding excessive work from HCT and Government.
OCHA has no presence in Mozambique. The coordination, reporting and information management of the current drought situation needs to be strengthened. The RC and the HCT are working with partners to support the Government to respond to save lives, livestock and livelihoods.
Due to competing humanitarian commitments in the Southern African region a longer time commitment and continuous support to Mozambique is not feasible from ROSEA due to lack of Portuguese speaker.
Travel 'within the country is required.
Main tasks and duties to be executed (specify precisely in a few bullet points):Under the overall guidance of the UNRC, the HAO with technical support of OCHA ROSEA:
• Monitor and report to RC on the trends in needs across all components of the HCT Humanitarian Response Plan, as well as the government and UN/Bilateral/INGO response activities, including CERF, highlighting gaps in response. .
• Promote and support intercluster coordination.
• Undertake gap analysis and facilitate resource mobilization.
• Map stakeholders and projects supporting the affected provinces in the operationalization of the HRP, including drafting of Country Profile and Dashboard of the situation in Mozambique.
• Strengthen mechanisms of coordination at central and provincial level.
• Facilitate substantive linkages between emergency response, preparedness/prevention, rehabilitation and ongoing early recovery programmes as well as with other related areas such as human rights
• Any other tasks as directed by the Resident Coordinator.
Specific Required Skills (languages, experience, etc.
- The SBPP capacity person should:
• be fluent in Portuguese or Spanish or Italian and English (reading, listening, writing and speaking)
• have field, experience in disaster-related context
• have experience in humanitarian reform implementation: HCT, inter-cluster coordination, cluster coordination
• have experience in resource mobilization reporting
• demonstrate skills for reporting and basis information management issues (3 W)
• have field experience in developing emergency preparedness and response plans
• have understanding of new humanitarian assistance modalities such as use of cash and vouchers in emergencies
• be able to work in a stressful environment and on an autonomous way.
How to apply:
If you are a Canadian citizen/Permanent Resident and see yourself in and have all of the above-mentioned skills, please register with CANADEM before contacting us. This can be done on our website at www.canadem.ca/register . Then send an email by no later than 12th of July at , 11:59 pm EDT to pantiwa.naksomboon@CANADEM.ca with a Subject Line: "OCHA-HAO-P3-P4-Mozambique" In your email, please include an updated resume, date of availability, your current location, and a phone number where we can reach you. Please also forward blank referee questionnaire that can be found at www.canadem.ca/rqf to two of your references (recent supervisors preferred). Full instructions on how to complete the forms are included in the document; also please send us any evaluation report that you may have about your field work. We will be considering applications as they are received.