UNHCR recruitment cameroon Inter-Agency Coordination Officer

Published April 8, 2020 · · Updated December 29, 2023 · 4 minutes · by Kamerpower ·

UNHCR recruitment cameroon Inter-Agency Coordination Officer

UNHCR recruitment cameroon Inter-Agency Coordination Officer. The Inter-Agency Coordination Officer is usually located in Country Operations, Multi-Country Offices, Regional Bureaux, Regional Refugee Coordinator’s Office or in the Partnership and Coordination Service (PCS) in Headquarters. S/he plays a crucial role in ensuring UNHCR approach to partnership and inter-agency processes are consistent, strategic and coherent. kamerpower.com

UNHCR recruitment – online application

Duties

• Advise and assist senior managers to formulate and communicate UNHCR positions on inter- agency matters, internally and externally, providing briefing notes, talking points and issue papers for relevant discussions in-house, with partners, including governmental counterparts, UN agencies and NGOs, donors, ExCom and in inter-agency fora.
• Promote UNHCR’s policies and linkages within multilateral processes, including humanitarian and development processes as elaborated by the humanitarian working groups, the Inter- Agency Standing Committee, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG), as well as in regional and country levels.
• Contribute to the effective establishment and maintenance of coordination mechanisms and tools, in line with the refugee coordination model and globally-agreed arrangements applicable in various situations (refugee-only; mixed refugee-IDPs; refugee and migrant movements), including through the development of joint appeals, regional refugee response plans, regional refugee and migrant response plans, refugee and resilience plans, comprehensive responses.
• Ensure these mechanisms (which may include regional coordination mechanisms, country-level multi-sector groups, refugee protection working group, information management) are inclusive and engage with all relevant stakeholders, including government counterparts, civil society (international and national NGOs) and donors.
• Where the IASC cluster system is activated, ensure senior management and country operations have the latest information on response strategies, UNHCR’s inter -agency commitments and other relevant data.
• In the context of inter-agency appeals, advise senior management on established procedures and best practices.
• Maintain frequent formal and informal contacts with his/her counterparts in other organisations.
• With support from PCS/DER and senior management, responsible for furthering understanding within UNHCR on inter- agency issues and priorities and inform other staff on policy developments and reform initiatives within the humanitarian sphere, as well as the broader UN and development processes. This includes updating key staff on the developments within the Inter- Agency frameworks, UN reforms, Global Compact, as well as promoting and stimulating UNHCR’s implementation of key reforms within the humanitarian and development architecture.
• Assist senior management and country offices to ensure internal institutional coherence and coordination of actions pursued for a strong refugee coordination system under government leadership where possible, with accompanying planning instruments in the delivery of refugee responses.
• Articulate UNHCR’s priorities in the inter-agency arena, including the commitment to humanitarian principles.
• Where there is lack of clarity as to UNHCR’s positions and priorities, identify the issues and bring this to senior management attention.
• Support/coordinate evaluations/reviews of coordination systems, including by other agencies.
• Maintain close contact with DER (PCS) on emerging issues.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Education & Professional Work Experience
Years of Experience / Degree Level.
For P3/NOC – 6 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 5 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 4 years relevant experience with Doctorate degree.

Field(s) of Education
Law, Political Science, Economics,
International Relations, Business Administration, Social Science
or other relevant field.
(Field(s) of Education marked with an asterisk* are essential).

Certificates and/or Licenses
In future: completion of the IACLP
(Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk* are essential).

Relevant Job Experience

Essential:

• Experience of working in an inter-agency environment at field or Headquarters level.
• Experience of liaising with governments and/or the donor community.
• Thorough understanding of UNHCR’s protection mandate and core mission.
• Thorough understanding of humanitarian coordination processes and recent inter-agency developments related to the IASC and the broader UN.

Desirable:

• Inter-agency coordination role.
• Drafting joint appeal/ refugee response plan/HRP.
• Experience with another UN agency or partner.

Functional Skills
ER-Inter-Agency Coordination Mechanisms
(Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential).

Applying Instructions
Interested applicants should submit their application online on the UNHCR Careers Page at https://www.unhcr.org/careers.html by clicking on “Vacancies”.

Closing date for applications: 16 April 2020 (midnight Geneva time).

UNHCR recruitment cameroon Inter-Agency Coordination Officer