Emergency Specialist - Amman, الأردن - UNICEF

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• About the job

  UNICEF works in some of the world's toughest places, to reach the world's most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
  
  Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
  
  And we never give up.
  
  For every child, Hope.
  
  In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) protracted conflicts, climate change and social and natural hazards continue to threaten the lives and well-being of children. Consequently, 50 million children, including 6.4 million refugees and approximately 6.4 million internally displaced children, need humanitarian assistance. As emergencies become more frequent in the MENA region, and resources invested in humanitarian action grow, expectations for UNICEF to deliver on the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs) in a timely and effective manner increase. Regional Office support to the preparedness and response efforts of the country offices in the MENA region significantly enhances UNICEF's ability to meet these expectations, delivering effective emergency operations.
  
  As a leading actor in the response, UNICEF is committed to ensuring accountability to and inclusion of people affected by crisis and ensuring they are firmly at the center to ensure relevant, timely, effective and efficient response. UNICEF follows a rights-based, inclusive, and active approach to AAP in recognition that the persons we serve are rights-holders rather than passive "aid recipients". Everyone – regardless of their gender, age, disability, nationality, or other differences – must be empowered to express their views and make their own choices, supported by reliable and accessible information, and have a genuine say in decisions.
  
  UNICEF invests in the institutional and technical capacity of local actors (authorities, CSOs, communities and private sector), to better address the needs of children affected by humanitarian crisis and to prepare national and sub-national actors for future humanitarian responses. UNICEF commits to localizing its humanitarian response by recognizing, respecting and strengthening the leadership and coordination of humanitarian action by national and local authorities, CSOs, and communities. UNICEF achieves localization by supporting participation, leadership and capacity-strengthening of local partners in humanitarian action, including in coordination mechanisms, engaging in principled partnership, adopting comprehensive risk management and, where possible, supporting multi-year agreements and funding.
  
  How can you make a difference?
  
  Responsibilities and Tasks
  
  Support the development, updating and implementation of strategies and action plans to scale up accountability
  
  to affected population (AAP) across MENA
  
• In line with Regional office AAP strategy, facilitate the development of CO strategies and plans of action
  
• for mainstreaming and scaling up AAP that has clear deliverables, indicators and timeframes to enable
  
  timely marked improvement in AAP/CE performance
  
• Support the integration of AAP in CO annual work plans and processes ensuring each programme (and
  
• operation) section have specific AAP outputs, activity and budgets for effective implementation
  
• Ensure COs have functioning Complaints and Feedback Mechanisms in place, that feedback is provided
  
• to beneficiaries, and that the feedback is shared and taken into account in future programming and
  
  advocacy
  
• Ensure coherence and articulation of AAP and localization agendas at country and regional levels
• Facilitate scale up of "Voices of Change" pilot project undertaken in 2023 in collaboration with Office of
  
• Innovation
  
• Identify additional resources (human, financial, technical, etc.) needed to implement the AAP/CE plan
  
• and explore options to mobilize these
  
  Support the rollout and scale up of localization interventions and processes across MENA
  
• Support the operationalization of UNICEF technical note on localization in humanitarian action, the
  
• strategic document for the localization agenda
  
• Support country offices to identify opportunities for strategic engagement with local actors, as well as
  
• barriers that may hinder their engagement with UNICEF
  
• In conjunction with other sections, lead the development of localized surge capacity (e.g. local-level
  
• emergency response teams/roster of local first responders) to complement other institutional
  
  mechanisms and ensure faster response to children's needs during crisis
  
• With supply team, explore local supply and logistics preparedness including arrangements to promote
  
• local production and local procurements
  
• Contribute to the documentation of country case studies on the operationalization of the localization
  
• agenda
  
• Work closely with cluster coordinators to identify and support opportunities to connect local CSOs with
  
• cluster coordination at national and sub-national level