Emergency Response Secretariat; EPP) Analyst, Humanitarian Response Division; HRD P

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The Emergency Officer for the UNFPA Policy and Procedures for Emergency Response (EPPs) Secretariat post is located in the Global Emergency Response Unit (GERU) within the Humanitarian Response Division (HRD), based in Geneva. Under the guidance of the Head of the Global Emergency Response Unit, the candidate provides substantive support to the GERU team in the planning and implementation of the EPPs rollout, monitoring, knowledge management, and reporting of EPPs related processes.

The candidate will be responsible for the EPP secretariat function, especially, when a corporate emergency response is activated.

Overall, the EPP Secretariat function covers emergency response multi stakeholders coordination, knowledge management, and substantive support to the Country Offices (COs), Regional Offices and all HQ Business Units involved in activated emergencies, as well as supporting the preparedness planning by GERU. The ultimate aim of this role is to support GERU and HRD’s role in ensuring that UNFPA’s emergency responses adhere to the structured policies and procedures framework outlined in the EPPs.

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan ), focuses on critical pathways and the strategies necessary to accelerate the achievement of three transformative results: (a) ending the unmet need for family planning; (b) ending preventable maternal deaths; and (c) ending gender-based violence and harmful practices, including female genital mutilation and child, early and forced marriage.

These three transformative results, which UNFPA is committed to achieving, also formed the basis of the current UNFPA strategic plan, , the first of the three strategic plans leading to 2030.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in Programme results.

UNFPA is the lead United Nations agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is intended, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled. The UNFPA Strategic Plan for  articulates the organization’s response to a complex global environment, providing a roadmap for resilience and renewal. It is designed to accelerate the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

This mandate is pursued through a focus on four interconnected outcomes: ending the unmet need for family planning; ending preventable maternal deaths; ending gender-based violence and harmful practices; and adapting to demographic change through evidence and rights-based policies.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff who embody these international norms and standards and will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates who transform, inspire, and deliver high-impact sustained results, ensuring effective external relations, communications, partnership-building and resource mobilization in a rapidly changing development and funding landscape. We need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to…