Position Title: Programme Officer - EPCP (Emergency Preparedness and Contingency Planning)
Place of Work: Various – Somalia & Nairobi
Reports to: Designate Cluster Co-coordinator
Duration: 5 months with possible 1 month extension (Starting ASAP)
Expected start date: 01 October 2015
Application Deadline: 22 September 2015
Background: The three key drivers of the humanitarian crisis in Somalia are drought, conflict and inadequate access to social services. Further, the incidence of localized flooding has been increasing over the past seasons.
For the last 3 decades, Somalia has faced seasonal fluctuations between Catastrophe / Emergency / Crisis and Stressed conditions that plague rural and urban livelihoods.
The Food Security Cluster (FSC) is the main coordinating body for Food Security programming in Somalia.
One of the key responsibilities of the FSC is emergency preparedness and contingency planning.
To date 463 organization engage with the FSC of which 93 are classified as partners, 369 as members and 1 observer.
The FSC’s membership includes United Nations agencies, International Non-governmental Organizations (INGOs) and Local Non-governmental Organizations (LNGOs), all with varying degrees of capacity.
Objective: In line with the FSC Emergency Preparedness Planning Guidelines of 2013, the EPCP Programme Officer will set up robust emergency preparedness and contingency plans for the FSC’s 13 regional coordination hubs in Somalia.
The local level operational contingency plans should clearly identify, in advance who, where and what would be required with its members in areas potentially affected by flooding, drought, conflict and other hazards as identified by the workshop.
Key Responsibilities and Tasks
- Design detailed EPCP work plan and develop workshop contents/tools in close coordination with technical partners (FSNAU/FEWSNET/WFP/FAO/REACH, UNICEF) to get their inputs to the aspects such as situational analysis (IPC), scenario building, risk assessment, historical response trends and response capacity
- Organize and conduct EPCP awareness workshop to sensitize key stakeholders including FSC partners/members, donors and government officials
- Identify existing EPCP mechanism by government, local authorities, ICWG, other clusters as well as FSC partners. Currently the FSC maintains a database of who is working where doing what as the basis for responding to emergencies.
- Prepare, in consultation with regional cluster Vice Coordinators, Focal Points, National/Local government officials and partners/members, FSC local level EPCP plans for each of the 13 regional coordination hubs. Further, present EPCP for the key stakeholders for additional inputs and feedback (endorsement) at each coordination hub
- Integrate FSC EPCP with existing, credible national and local level government plans including with other clusters
- Set up implementation arrangement and build upon existing monitoring systems for the EPCP
- Prepare a protocol for the updating of the EPCP clearly identifying responsibilities of key stakeholders and actors.
- Identify potential constraints /challenges (polices, capacity) for adoption and implementation of EPCP and propose possible solution (preparedness)
- Identify areas and key disasters that required national level EPCP (advocacy)
Expected Outputs / Deliverables
- Design EPCP
- work plan and workshops
- Conduct EPCP workshops for each of the coordination hubs.
- Prepare 13 local level EPCP
- Prepare TORs in respect to the monitoring and updating of the contingency plans for the Vice coordinators, Focal Points, FSC secretariat and Government officials
- Brief presentation (20-30 minutes) during ICCG and FSC partners meeting on FSC EPCP
Qualifications and Competencies
- Advanced University Degree
- Experience: At least 3 years development/humanitarian work experience with a focus on humanitarian response, contingency planning, food security assessment and analysis.
- Must be able to demonstrate personal outputs from previous contingency planning activities.
- Previous experience working on food security, particularly within Somalia or East Africa region, is highly desirable.
How to Apply
We would ask all interested candidates to please submit their CV, P11 (available here: http://foodsecuritycluster.net/document/p11form) and cover letter to bernard.mrewa@wfp.org and Mulugeta.Shibru@fao.org cc’íng nancy.koech@fao.org,.
Closing date for all applications is 22 September 2015.
Please clearly state your availability in the cover letter
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