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- Title: Assistant Emergency Preparedness Officer
- Project: DESS/2025/01
- Duty station: Geneva, Switzerland
- Section/Unit: Emergency Preparedness, Deployments and Partnerships Section
- Job Requisition ID: JR2556649
- Family Type: Family
- End Date: July 27, 2025
UNHCR is hiring a compassionate, organized Assistant. This role offers a chance to contribute meaningfully to humanitarian efforts while growing within a globally respected organization. UNHCR is seeking for a dynamic and proactive team player, with excellent drafting skills and knowledge of English, strong inter-personal and analytical skills, to support the work of the Emergency Preparedness Unit.
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Responsibilities
- Carry out global horizon scans regularly and produce emergency outlooks and reports to inform UNHCR early warning discussions;
- Participate in the IASC Early Warning, Early Action and Readiness (EWEAR) calls, providing quality inputs to the early warning discussions, and contributing to reports;
- Participate in and contribute to climatic early warning and action initiatives (i.e. Centre of Excellence on Climate and Disaster Resilience, Early Warning for All, etc.);
- Support the roll-out of the Preparedness Guidance, which will include drafting of materials and trainings and provision of support to colleagues at country, regional and HQ levels;
- Contribute to updates of relevant entries in UNHCR’s Emergency Handbook;
- Maintain /compile a weekly calendar of emergency-related events for the attention of Senior Management
- Support coordination meetings with the Regional Bureaux /country operations, including taking notes and preparing meeting minutes as required;
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Requirements
- University degree at the advanced level, in Political Science, International Relations, Conflict Analysis or other relevant fields;
- Work Experience Minimum of 1-year relevant work experience in humanitarian agencies.
- Experience in handling complex datasets, sensitive data and maintaining discretion.
- Proven research skills in conflict analysis and experience in presenting analysis of results through visualizations.
- Proven ability to work well under pressure in a busy, multicultural environment and under tight deadlines;
- Analytical thinking, data driven oriented with the ability to analyze data;
- Excellent organizational skills, accuracy and attention to detail.
