Humanitarian Operations Senior Officer (Anticipatory Action Officer)

Dutystation: New York**, United States of America

Functional responsibilities

The incumbent will report to the Humanitarian Operations Specialist under the overall direction of the Anticipatory Action Lead in the Programme Unit of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) secretariat.

The incumbent will be responsible for the following duties but not limited to:

• Support the development of new anticipatory action frameworks (action plan, crisis timeline, trigger mechanism based on predictive data analytics, etc.), contribute specific expertise and dedicated knowledge to the revision and improvement of existing frameworks, and provide expertise through research, analysis, presentation and facilitation. ensuring that frameworks align with OCHA’s criteria and objectives and that triggers are based on rigorous data analysis.
• Provides expertise and knowledge to monitor specific Anticipatory Action frameworks, including whether trigger conditions have been met based on data analysis, and facilitates the activation of Anticipatory Action frameworks when agreed triggers have been reached. This includes the development or review of CERF applications (projects and budgets), ensuring that activities are anticipatory in nature and in line with CERF’s life-saving criteria, and ensuring that projects can be approved immediately and money disbursed quickly.
• Contributes specific deliverables to the learning workstreams for specific anticipatory action frameworks, including surveys, data analysis, evaluations, process learning and monitoring.
• Provides guidance and develops specific deliverables (e.g., frameworks, templates, guidance, data analyses, monitoring tools) for OCHA’s early action work and leads on selected workstreams, such as cholera or El Niño/La Niña
• Conducts data analyses underpinning CERF’s work on anticipatory and early action, contributing to the decision-making on pre-agreed financing and funding allocations.
• Contributes their Anticipatory Action expertise and knowledge to OCHA’s overall Anticipatory Action workstream, including disaster risk financing and the development of policy, standards, reports, data analysis, background papers, presentations.
• Perform other duties as may be reasonably required and in line with the incumbent’s scope of services above.

Work implies frequent collaboration with the following:

• Personnel at all levels within OCHA/UNOPS in New York, Geneva, country and regional offices as needed
• Counterparts in other UN agencies, NGOs and research institutions
• Work potentially includes travel to countries with humanitarian contexts or for surge support, workshops, seminars, trainings, etc.

Education/Experience/Language requirements

*FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY