1. Ensures effective coordination of preparedness, relief/recovery response

 Supports/Leads in emergency preparedness and response activities, including elaboration/updating contingency plans, assessment tools elaboration and administration capacity building on disaster management; and simulation exercises;
 Supports the planning, implementation and strengthening of inclusive coordination in his/her area of responsibilities (AOR), identifies gaps and suggests corrective actions and ensures inclusion of cross-cutting issues, such as gender mainstreaming, etc.
 Establishes/maintains effective communication, including translation, on a regular basis with stakeholders, including de facto government officials, UN agencies and NGOs to foster coordination in preparedness and response efforts; and advises on solutions to operational challenges.
 Supports/organizes area-based coordination meetings; takes notes; prepares readouts etc during formal and informal; internal/external meetings with partners/stakeholders.
 Support Mandalay sub-office in coordinating with different stakeholders.
 Depending on situation, supports inter-agency/Inter-Cluster Coordination forums as well as other internal and external meetings, as required.
 Support/facilitates building sector-specific strategies and institutions that will address is-sues at the field level in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
 Depending on situation, support Field Office’s access negotiation efforts, including building of actors/partners contacts database.
 Conduct field missions as required.

2. Ensure effective support in the areas of humanitarian access and coordination and liaise with relevant stakeholders
    Contribute to the preparation of regular updates, reports, and briefing notes that highlight key access issues and developments for internal and external stakeholders.
    Collect and compile data on operational constraints from humanitarian partners and other credible sources. Conduct access-related analyses, as needed.
    Provides inputs to regular internal updates and analysis on the security and political environment. Contributes to collective analysis and advocacy on humanitarian access within the area of responsibility (AoR).
    Supports dedicated information sharing mechanisms and maintains close contact with the Access Unit.
    Supports advocacy for the broader humanitarian community for humanitarian access at local and central level, including principled access to hard-to-reach areas.
    Supports OCHA’s engagement with CSOs/LNGOs, with a specific focus on facilitating principled humanitarian access.
    Supports the strengthening of engagement with all relevant stakeholders to facilitate access to hard-to-reach areas.
3. Provides/elaborates/disseminates and translation of relevant information on humanitarian/recovery activities, in close consultation with stakeholders and facilitates knowledge sharing;
    Monitors developments in the AOR, collects, analyzes information to identify trends, challenges and solutions;
    Prepares internal/external reports/analysis/daily updates/translation of the situation, sup-ports information collection and development of information products such as the ‘who does what where database and resulting map products;
    Supports monitoring, identification of gaps, lessons learned and evaluations, in collaboration with stakeholders;
    Contributes to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
4. Performs other duties that may be required by the supervisor

Requirements:

relevant professional experience in humanitarian affairs, emergency preparedness, crisis/emergency relief management, rehabilitation, development, monitoring and evaluations or other related areas.