Senior Humanitarian Affairs Officer/ Head of Office
8 months ago
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**Org. Setting and Reporting**
This position-specific job opening is being advertised for the position of Senior Humanitarian Affairs Officer/ Head of Office in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The incumbent reports to the Chief of PRMB, in close day-to-day collaboration with the Chief of External Relations and Partnerships Section in PRMB.
**Responsibilities**
- Within delegated authority, the Senior Humanitarian Affairs Officer/ Head of Office will be responsible for the following duties:
- Represents and promotes OCHA's priorities for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region through leading and developing strategic partnerships and outreach with a broad range of stakeholders from governments, regional organizations, foundations, NGOs, private sector, and international financing institutions for financial and non-financial support.
- Serves as a senior policy advisor to senior management in OCHA on partnerships, programmes, funding and issues of significant impact on humanitarian, emergency relief and disaster response/management efforts.
- Guides and supports other offices in the region on OCHA's humanitarian mandate; influences the development and evolution of the UN approach to humanitarian affairs with partners; designs and implements significant policy and programme changes to address country, regional, global humanitarian affairs issues, including gender considerations.
- Establishes and nurtures high-level contacts and proactively disseminates relevant information to partners, peers and other agencies in the UN system.
- Conceptualizes, formulates and manages major projects; ensures necessary support (e.g. staff, funding, specialized equipment, supplies, etc.); prepares situation reports and analysis reports, apprising of situation to date and specifying unmet requirements of stricken countries.
- Leads regional advocacy efforts to mobilize resources for OCHA, the pooled funds and the broader Humanitarian Response Plans.
- Leads capacity building initiatives; organizes and participates as trainer/resource person in national and international training seminars.
- Serves as primary liaison with non-UN entities, including senior host government officials, donor representatives, NGO officials, the media, etc., in emergency situations.
- Establishes and manages implementation of the overall work plan and budget.
- Leads and directs a team of staff in Riyadh, provides strategic guidance and oversight to other offices in the region; plans and reviews work plans; coaches, mentors and evaluates staff; participates in recruitment, selection and training of new staff and in the development of training programs.
- Organizes and/or chairs inter-agency and other international meetings, conferences, task forces; presents views and policies of the unit/institution.
- Initiates, supervises and finalizes position papers and related submissions; prepares diverse reports, papers, policy guidelines, parliamentary documents, statements, presentations, etc. for senior management.
- Performs other duties as required.
**Competencies**
- COMMUNICATION: Speaks and writes clearly and effectively; listens to others, correctly interprets messages from others and responds appropriately; asks questions to clarify and exhibits interest in having two-way communication; tailors language, tone, style and format to match audience; demonstrates openness in sharing information and keeping people informed.
- CLIENT ORIENTATION: Considers all those to whom services are provided to be "clients" and seeks to see things from clients' point of view; establishes and maintains productive partnerships with clients by gaining their trust and respect; identifies clients' needs and matches them to appropriate solutions; monitors ongoing developments inside and outside the clients' environment to keep informed and anticipate problems; keeps clients informed of progress or setbacks in projects; meets timeline for delivery of products or services to client.
- LEADERSHIP: Serves as a role model that other people want to follow: empowers others to translate vision into results; is proactive in developing strategies to accomplish objectives; establishes and maintains relationships with a broad range of people to understand needs and gain support; anticipates and resolves conflicts by pursuing mutually agreeable solutions; drives for change and improvements; does not accept the status quo; shows the courage to take unpopular stands. Provides leadership and takes responsibility for incorporating gender perspectives and ensuring the equal participation of women and men in all areas of work; demonstrates knowledge of strategies and commitment to the goal of gender balance in staffing.
- JUDGEMENT/DECISION-MAKING: Identifies the key issues in a complex situation, and comes to the heart of the problem quickly; gathers relevant information bef
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