Le Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires (OCHA) recrute pour ce poste (07 Juin 2022)

One of OCHA’s aims being to sustain an effective innovative humanitarian financing system that meets the needs of crisis-affected people, this role will be assigned to the Central African Republic Humanitarian Fund (CAR HF). The CAR HF is part of the 21 country-based pooled Funds (CBPF), multi-donor humanitarian financing instrument managed by OCHA at country level under the overall responsibility and leadership of the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC). With around $25 million of donors’ contributions received per year, the CAR HF allocates funding to around 45 partners including (i) UN agencies, (ii) international and (ii) national NGOs and (iv) other partners like the ICRC. In an underfunded context such as the humanitarian crisis in Central African Republic, the CAR HF represents a critical funding mechanism and tool for the humanitarian community. On daily basis, the CAR HF is managed by a dedicated Humanitarian Financing Unit (HFU), a team of nearly 10 staff members. The Head of HFU is also the Fund Manager of the CAR HF. Under the oversight management of the Fund Manager/Head of HFU, the role and responsibilities of the incumbent will be articulated around the following three points: (i) Support the CAR HF on aspects related to project monitoring including planning and conducting project field visits, (ii) Support CAR HF reporting processes, ensuring evidence-based analysis of the performance and results achieved through activities undertaken by Implementing Partners, (iii) Participate in the selection of project proposals by assisting in the organization of technical reviews during CAR HF allocation processes, and (iv) Assist the CAR HF in the identification and use of lessons learnt by participating in knowledge sharing and synthesis of lessons learnt in support to improved decision-making and internal M&R systems. Finally, the incumbent will be working in close collaboration with the National Monitoring and Reporting Officer.

Description de la tâche

Under the direct supervision of the Fund Manager/ Head of Humanitarian Financing Unit, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: (i) Support the CAR HF on aspects related to project monitoring including planning and conducting project field visits: a. Contribute to the planning of monitoring activities. This may include planning of monitoring visits and programmatic reports into the Grants Management Sys-tem; planning and update of the Monitoring and reporting dashboard; discuss-ing with the implementing partner and other stakeholders about the project pro-gress and status, identifying data collection methods, and organizing direct field visits and/or monitoring instance where field visits are not feasible. b. Carry out field monitoring visits. This may include collecting and analyzing rele-vant data in an impartial manner to compare actual project achievements with those initially planned and those reported. Depending on the monitoring meth-od used, this may require engagement and information collection with project beneficiaries, local authorities, implementing partners and other stakeholders. c. Report on monitoring activities. This may include timely preparation of a draft monitoring report to be submitted to relevant stakeholders and undertaking fol-low up actions as agreed with different stakeholders. d. Follow up with partners on the implementation of M&R recommendations, re-port back to stakeholders and update the recommendations’ register into the GMS. (ii) Support CAR HF reporting processes, ensuring evidence-based analysis of the per-formance and results achieved through activities undertaken by Implementing Part-ners. a. In accordance with the CAR HF reporting timeframes, support the organization, collection and conduct of quality assurance of progressive narrative report and final narrative reports submitted by implementing partners. b. Assist in the identification and synthesis of issues and recommendations relat-ed to project performance including the provision of inputs to the CAR HF An-nual Report or other reports on a specific activity or type of project, or updates to stakeholders and decision makers. (iii) Participate in the selection of project proposals by assisting in the organization of technical reviews during CAR HF allocation processes. a. Support the process of review, selection and quality control of proposals. b. Contribute to quality improvement by assessing the narrative content and the logical framework of each project proposal in relation to expected results, risk analysis and planning assumptions; linkages between inputs, activities, out-puts and outcomes to ensure that they are clearly articulated and in line with cluster response plans and allocation strategic notes, ‘value for money,’ quality of M&R plans, their feasibility and coherence with CAR HF M&R. (iv) Assist the CAR HF in the identification and use of lessons learnt by participating in knowledge sharing and synthesis of lessons learnt in support to improved decision-making and internal M&R systems. a. Support in the identification of lessons learnt during the project implementation. b. Assist in the drafting of success stories related to project implementation. Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to: (i) Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activi-ties (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day). (ii) Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country. (iii) Provide annual and end of assignment reports on UN Volunteer actions, results and opportunities using UNV’s Volunteer Reporting Application. (iv) Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publi-cations/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc. (v) Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UN Volunteers. Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.