Humanitarian Protection Advisor Jobs

Demonstrate collaborative interpersonal skills to work across a variety of cultures and with remote team members.

Support program start up, implementation, and close out, while learning key donor requirements.

Develop skills in backstopping program teams and providing implementation support to in-country teams.

Develop or strengthen leadership, communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.

Strong oral communications and written skills.

Outcome 1: Develop foundational skills in humanitarian assistance support departments:

Support the establishment of an information management system and support information being shared in a timely and relevant manner.

Demonstrate collaborative interpersonal skills to work across a variety of cultures and also with remote team members.

Rotation 1: Information Management & Program Support:

Rotation 2: Capacity Building & Roster Management:

Help create a detailed Funding Matrix with Finance and ID Focal Persons.

Assist Program Specialist in feeding into the reporting requirements from the various offices and other reporting requests.

Demonstrate collaborative interpersonal skills to work across a variety of cultures and also with remote team members.

Strong oral communications and written skills.

Ability and willingness to travel internationally.

Proficiency in another language is strongly preferred.

Generation Next Humanitarian fellowship is seekingMinority Serving Institution(MSI) graduates to become the next generation of humanitarian professionals.

Monitors, analyzes and reports on humanitarian developments, disaster relief/management or emergency situations in assigned country/area.

Assists in the production of appeals for international assistance; ensures the proper use and spending of donor contributions channeled through OCHA.

Establishes and maintains contacts with government officials, other UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, diplomatic missions, media, etc.

Reviews and provides advice on policy issues related to safeguarding humanitarian principles and ensuring the effective delivery of humanitarian assistance.

Organizes and participates in working groups, meetings, conferences, consultations with other agencies and partners on humanitarian and emergency relief-related matters.

Provides guidance to, and may supervise, new/junior staff in the area of responsibility.

Highly adept in networking and relationship management. Ability to engage diverse diplomatic interlocutors at various levels)

· Advising management on new UNSC dynamics and opportunities

5 years of experience in humanitarian affairs

Sound knowledge of international relations and the humanitarian and diplomatic environment

Previous experience in humanitarian diplomacy capitals would be useful (Geneva, New York, Brussels, Addis Ababa, …)

Demonstrated capacity and experience in developing and maintaining networks across a range of diplomatic or humanitarian actors

Letter of Interest containing the statement on candidate’s experience and qualification against required qualification, experience and competencies.

All deliverables will be reviewed and cleared by the task manager.

Sound knowledge of gender in humanitarian action and women’s rights.

Excellent skills in GiHA capacity building facilitation.

At least 3 years of proven international experience in developing and delivering various types of gender-focused trainings and capacity-building programmes.

A minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in the humanitarian context in Palestine is highly desirable.

Analyzes and assists in introducing new technologies for disaster warning/management.

Prepares policy position papers for review.

Assists in the production of appeals for international assistance; ensures the proper use and spending of donor contributions channeled through OCHA.

Organizes and participates in work groups, meetings, conferences, consultations with other agencies and partners humanitarian and emergency relief-related matters.

May participate in planning and preparation of unit budget and work program.

Provides leadership and work direction to assigned work team, and/or mentors and supervises the work of new/junior officers.

Provide general program support related to advocacy and communications for Sesame Workshop’s humanitarian programs, including reporting and knowledge management.

Strong project-manager and multi-tasker with excellent organizational skills and close attention to detail.

Coordinate roles and logistics with event organizers and venues; provide briefing memos for senior executives; and manage relevant contracts.

Experience with preparing and managing high-level speaking engagements and events

Relationship builder with strong people skills, interested in building and sustaining partnerships with Sesame and across our partnerships.

Expert in PowerPoint; strong overall computer skills.

Researches, analyzes and presents information gathered from diverse sources on assigned topics/issues.

Develops and maintains reference/resource information on specific topics; responds to various inquiries and information requests internally and externally.

Participates in substantive and technical meetings under the OCHA Front Office’s purview as appropriate.

Performs other duties as required.

The Staff Regulations, Staff Rules and administrative issuances governing staff appointments can be viewed at: http://www.un.org/hr_handbook/English.

Certification in project management is desired.

Program oversight and management, development of programmatic policy, procedure, and guidelines;

Five (5) or more years experience implementing protection programming in an international context;

Proven experience developing programs and teams;

Experience in conducting assessments, developing technical tools and materials, developing monitoring and evaluation tools, and strategy development;

Experience in participatory approaches to protection and/or gender mainstreaming;