Mission and objectives

Pakistan was the sixth country in the world to sign and ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child, less than one year after it was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989. However, children and adolescents living in Pakistan still face acute challenges. UNICEF supports the Government of Pakistan to accelerate progress for children, work to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and help children realize their rights under the Convention on the Rights of Children. This will be made through, among others things, strong partnerships with provincial authorities, teachers and health professionals, frontline workers and social mobilisers, communities and families, and of course the children and adolescents themselves. In particular, UNICEF will work so that: Every child survives and thrives — being in good health, immunised, protected from polio and accessing nutritious food. Every child learns. Every child is protected from violence and exploitation, and registered at birth. Every child lives in a safe and clean environment, with access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.

Context

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. Pakistan is a high-risk country to natural hazards and has been grappling with the impacts of climate change, including increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Floods, droughts, earthquakes and heatwaves have become more common, posing risks to the country’s infrastructure, agriculture, and overall socio-economic stability. In 2022, Pakistan experienced an increase of 77% in annual rainfall while the annual area-averaged temperature increased by 0.84°C. Also, Pakistan is ranked 8th on the Long-term Climate Risk Index (2000-2019). Regarding the VA, under the guidance and supervision of the Programme Specialist (DRM), supports in establishing and implementing country office emergency preparedness and response plans with regards to the potential humanitarian situations to ensure the survival and well-being of children and mothers, and the affected communities.

Task Description

Within the delegated authority and under the given organizational set-up, the incumbent may be assigned the primary, shared, or contributory accountabilities for all or part of the following areas of major duties and key end-results. • Emergency Preparedness and Response: Supports in maintaining humanitarian preparedness and response plans preparation, ensuring that key preparedness actions particularly monitoring supply gaps, LTAs, updating contingency stocks matrix, are followed up for timely action. Also, supports in ensuring that UNICEF’s Global Emergency Preparedness Platform is timely updated with complete information available in a standardize manner, with sections regularly feeding in progress updates and support requirements. Providing support in following up at the interagency level pertaining preparedness, response and other tasks as required. • Humanitarian Information Management and Reporting: supports in maintaining UNICEF’s Humanitarian Response Database pertaining ongoing emergencies. Manages information flow required to support Emergency Management activities. Reviews sources, examines information available, extracts and compiles relevant information and supports in preparing analytical briefings showing trends in emergency planning, assessments, assistance, and recovery to facilitate decision making. Compiles and synthesizes information to cater for specific briefs, presentations and talking points. • Humanitarian Assessments and Reports: Support and engage actively in the preparation and implementation of multi-sectoral humanitarian assessments, by liaising with relevant stakeholders, such as NDMA, OCHA and UNDP and programme and support sections in UNICEF. • Humanitarian Supply and Logistics Follow-up: Creates links between programmes and supply/logistics by providing coordination on contingency plans and stocks and in collaboration with sections, advises on where to pre-position and release supplies. Compiles and shares distribution and supply plans in coordination with sections and feeds information to supply/logistics. • Humanitarian Liaison and Sectors Follow-ups: Follows up with sections to ensure timely submission of required inputs to internal and external commitments. Participates in working group meetings, be either UNICEF led or others and identifies issues of common interest to facilitate cross-sectorial coordination and programming. • Field Operations/DRM section: Provides support to ensure the smooth implementation of Emergency Field Operations/DRM section as required, including taking notes and follow up on decisions taken in the meetings; liaises with the UNICEF field offices as per need of Field Operations section. Any other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Competencies and values

● Achieving results and ensuring programme quality and impact. ● Being accountable ● Developing and applying professional expertise/ business acumen ● Thinking analytically and strategically ● Workings in teams/ managing ourselves and our relationships. ● Communicating for impact

Living conditions and remarks

As this is a national UNV assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials. UNV Field Unit will help you open a Pak rupee bank account with Standard Chartered Bank or any other local bank at your duty station. Assignment remarks: This is a national UNV assignment and a Volunteer Living Allowance (VLA) of PKR 105,097 is provided monthly to cover housing, utilities and normal cost of living expenses. Life health and permanent disability insurance are included (health insurance for up to 3 dependents), as well as final repatriation (if applicable) and resettlement allowance for satisfactory service.

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements