Emergency Coordinator
Organizational Context
The FAO Office in Haiti is responsible for developing, promoting, supervising, and implementing strategies to address national priorities in food security, agriculture, and rural development. It maintains relations with national ministries. FAO country offices aim to assist governments in developing policies, programs, and projects to achieve food security, reduce hunger and malnutrition, support the development of agriculture, fisheries, and forestry sectors, and ensure sustainable use of natural resources.
Job Purpose
This role supports the implementation of FAO’s emergency response in Haiti, focusing on coordination, assessment, and time-critical interventions. The incumbent will assist in coordinating the implementation and follow-up of FAO’s emergency operations and strategies within the affected country. This involves active participation in humanitarian coordination mechanisms, leading needs assessments, and developing response strategies to ensure effective and timely assistance to populations affected by emergencies.
Responsibilities
The Emergency Coordinator will ensure FAO's active participation in humanitarian coordination mechanisms, including clusters and sectors, engaging with government authorities, UN agencies, donors, and partners. Responsibilities include developing emergency response strategies, leading programming from needs assessments to implementation, and contributing to appeals and project proposals. The role involves overseeing emergency operations plans, setting up assessment and response teams, and coordinating contributions to inter-agency Humanitarian Response Plans and Flash Appeals. The incumbent will ensure technical assistance is available, support sectorial coordination, and develop advocacy and outreach plans. Maintaining donor relations, coordinating contributions to needs assessments, ensuring personnel safety, managing team demobilization, and supervising project personnel are also key duties. The role may involve serving on interview panels.
Work Experience
A minimum of five years of relevant experience is required in emergency preparedness and response, humanitarian coordination, or managing food security and agricultural livelihoods programs in crisis contexts. Experience in more than one location or area of work, particularly long-term field positions, is desirable.
Skills
Key skills include knowledge of humanitarian coordination mechanisms, such as the cluster system and Food Security Cluster/Sector coordination. Experience in humanitarian needs assessments, developing anticipatory action strategies, and emergency response programs is essential. Proficiency in emergency operations planning, resource management, and supervision of response teams is required. Experience in donor engagement, resource mobilization, and preparing funding proposals, Humanitarian Response Plans, and Flash Appeals is necessary. The ability to integrate protection, gender, and accountability to affected populations into programming, and to prepare advocacy materials and situation reports, is also important. Strong results focus, teamwork, communication, relationship building, and knowledge sharing abilities are expected.