CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST – VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT : 2302143
Technical Support Specialist in Emergencies and Resilience
Job advertisement : Jul 19/2023
Publication cancellation date : Aug 2, 2023, 9:59:00 PM
Organizational Unit: SLM
Job type : Temporary work
Requirement Type: PSA ( Personal Service Agreements )
Grade Level: N / A
Main location : Panama-Panama City
Duration: As of December 29, 2023
Position Number: N / A
FAO seeks to ensure gender, geographic and linguistic diversity among its staff and its international consultants, in order to serve the Member States of the Organization in the best possible way in all regions.
- FAO is committed to achieving diversity in its workforce in terms of sex, nationality, origin and culture.
- Women, nationals of under-represented or under-represented Member States and persons with disabilities with the necessary qualifications are encouraged to submit their applications.
- All persons working for FAO must comply with the highest standards of professional integrity and conduct and uphold FAO’s values.
- FAO, as a specialized agency of the United Nations, applies a zero tolerance policy for conduct incompatible with its statute, objectives and mandate, in particular sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination.
- All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
- All requests will be treated with the strictest confidentiality.
Organizational framework
The FAO Subregional Office for Mesoamerica has a high-level, multidisciplinary team, consolidating itself as the first point of contact of the countries of the subregion to provide technical assistance and accompaniment, and making available to you FAO’s experience and technical and political knowledge in food security and nutrition, family farming and development of inclusive food systems and natural resource management, risks and adaptation to climate change.
The countries where FAO SLM contributes are: Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic.
Hierarchical dependency
The specialist reports to the Chief Technical Officer and the Disaster Risk Management Expert.
Field of specialization
Under the direct supervision of Disaster Risk Management Expert of the SLM Emergency and Resilience program, and in coordination with the Regional Office Resilience team, and the network of focal points in the country offices, the specialist will have the following tasks / responsibilities:
- Support in the organization, execution and systematization of technical meetings.
- Support for the development of resource mobilization proposals
- Support in the conceptualization and development of events and publications
- Support in monitoring the execution of actions foreseen in the work plan
- Support in the preparation of briefings and presentations
- Propose systems and tools to improve team coordination
- Support project execution
Other relevant supports for the team
Tasks and responsibilities
- Coordinate work meetings,
- Review project and program documents,
- Prepare reports on specific topics,
- Support the formulation of TORs,
- Support in data analysis for content generation
- Support in reporting and preparing working documents
- Support validation processes of technical sheets and comparative tables
- Support in the review of implementation strategies and agreements with local partners ( LOAs ) and project reports.
- Participate in seminars and workshops on relevant topics
- Monitor the implementation of projects in the field.
- Weekly minute of priorities and progress
THE CANDIDATES WILL BE EVALUED IN ARRANGE TO THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:
Minimum requirements
- Relevant academic training in Economic or Social Sciences or Environmental Sciences or agronomy, or risk management, or geography.
- Work experience of at least 3 years in risk management projects preferably in the field of Food Security and livelihoods
- Practical knowledge of Spanish, French or English. Mastery of French would be desirable.
FAO core competencies
- Results-based approach
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Building effective relationships
- Knowledge exchange and continuous improvement
Technical / functional skills
- Demonstrable experience in all phases of project cycle management;
- Experience in remote equipment management.
It is noted that all candidates should adhere to the Organization’s values of commitment to FAO, respect for all and integrity and transparency.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- FAO does not charge fees at any stage of the recruitment process ( application, interview, processing ).
- Incomplete applications will not be taken into account. If you need help, contact: Careers@fao.org.
- Applications received after the expiration of the application deadline will not be accepted.
- We inform you that FAO will only consider academic degrees or credentials obtained from a teaching institution included in the World Database on Higher Education, which is a list maintained by the International Association of Universities ( IAU ) / UNESCO. The list can be consulted at: www.whed.net/
- For information about other job opportunities visit the FAO Employment Website: http://www.fao.org/employment/home/es/.
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