Associate Humanitarian Affairs Officer / AIT Liaison

About the role

OCHA, the United Nations part responsible for coordinating humanitarian actors' responses to emergencies, is advertising two temporary positions of Associate Humanitarian Affairs Officer / Accountability and Impact Team (AIT) Liaison in Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda. The posts are in the Crisis Response Division, reporting to the Head of Office of the OCHA Regional Office for Southern and Eastern Africa (ROSEA), and are open for 364 days.

Key responsibilities

• With a senior Humanitarian Affairs Officer, help design and prepare studies on humanitarian, disaster and emergency relief issues and follow-up activities affecting the Humanitarian Financing Unit.
• Research, analyse and present information on assigned topics, including AIT management and proper functioning.
• Contribute to written documents such as study drafts, background papers, policy guidelines and parliamentary documents.
• Maintain reference material on topics and policy issues, and respond to internal and external information requests.
• Assist in producing appeals for international assistance and ensure proper use and spending of donor contributions.
• Help organise meetings, seminars, conferences and workshops with partners and act as reporter.
• Stay aware of current humanitarian affairs, including political, policy and gender considerations.
• Take part in technical assistance, disaster assessment and other missions, and in project and programme formulation and resource mobilisation.

Required profile

• Advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent) in political science, social science, international studies, public administration, economics, engineering, earth sciences or a related field; alternatively a first-level degree plus two years of qualifying experience, or a first-level degree with no experience if the candidate passed the Young Professionals Programme or UN NCRE examinations.
• At least two years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian affairs, emergency preparedness, crisis relief, rehabilitation or development, or successful completion of the YPP/NCRE or G to P exams.
• Field experience in complex emergencies or natural disasters, and experience in humanitarian coordination.
• Experience with a Country-Based Pooled Fund or comparable multi-donor financing mechanism, programme management with risk management, and UN Common System experience is desirable.
• English at UN Level III reading, writing, listening and speaking; French is the other working language of the Secretariat.