UNFPA is hiring a Humanitarian Coordination Officer, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, P-3 2023 in Cox’s Bazar

Coordination

• Take the lead, under the guidance of the Head of Sub-office, to ensure coordination of UNFPA’s humanitarian activities in the Rohingya camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar. This will include contributing to coordinated assessments, planning and budgeting, ensuring that the integration of thematic areas is continuously enhanced and streamlined, and ensuring that the process of developing appeals, proposals, and reports, is well coordinated and produces products to highlight UNFPA’s mandate in a clear and integrated way.
• Participate in external inter-agency/ working Group/ coordination meetings to share knowledge and advocate for the mandate of UNFPA in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char. Represent UNFPA at key HoSo meetings and at donor meetings in the absence of the HoSo, or at her request.
• Coordinate and participate in joint monitoring visits, together with colleagues from the different teams in the CxB office; assist teams in following up on monitoring recommendations and findings.
• Develop the Joint response Plan for Bhasan char in coordination with other sectors for SRH, GBV and A&Y

Programme Development and Implementation

• Coordinate and chair when required, Cox’s Bazar Office and Bhasan Char team meetings; support tracking and implementation of key action points for enhanced response implementation.
• Maintain UNFPA’s response plan and its various components (programme, operations, communications, M&E and human resources) for coherence and timely response to any challenges. This includes being up-to-date on status and gaps in available funding for the response.
• Contribute to maintaining excellent relationships with donors, by ensuring strong and timely implementation of and reporting on donor funds; take the lead on coordinating donor visits to UNFPA programmes; ensure donor requests and queries are responded to in a timely and high quality manner; proactively seek opportunities to advocate for UNFPA’s mandate with both existing and new donors.
• Advocate for the inclusion of SRH, GBV, and gender concerns in joint UN missions (led by UNHCR and WFP) and other rapid assessments in close collaboration with SRH and GBV officers.
• Assist the HoSo in the preparation for coordination meetings (led by UNHCR) relating to emergency response; participate in meetings on HoSo’s behalf when necessary, and ensure follow up in Bhasan Char.
• Support the development of CERF, Flash Appeal proposals and ensure quality review.
• Coordinate the implementation of the UNFPA Standards Operating Procedures for humanitarian settings.
• Advocate for inclusion of ICPD PoA in emergency response and seek to ensure UNFPA is well positioned in resource mobilization efforts, including humanitarian funding mechanisms such as Flash Appeal/CERF.

Rapid Assessments/field visits

• As appropriate, participate in /ensure inclusion of UNFPA’s core Areas of Responsibility in rapid field/needs assessments of the crisis-affected populations.
• Visit Refugee and host communities and conduct in-depth interviews with camp managers and other humanitarian agencies present on the ground to gather information on the immediate needs of the people and the services to be provided.

Communication/ Reporting

• Assist the UNFPA Bangladesh Cox’s Bazar office team in preparing relevant messaging/advocacy materials and updates for relevant stakeholders and partners, including for APRO management/UNFPA HQ,
• Coordinate the drafting of both internal and external UNFPA situation reports., as well as donor reports, briefings and fact sheets.
• Assist in providing regular updates to OCHA and/or Cluster leads on UNFPA’s humanitarian interventions to be included in situation reports (i.e.:  OCHA SitRep).
• Track and regularly update supported humanitarian interventions (i.e. status of funding proposals, distribution of supplies, training).

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.  UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.