Forced Displacement Consultant At Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Organizational Setting

The Office of Emergencies and Resilience (OER) is responsible for ensuring FAO’s efforts to support countries and partners in preparing for and effectively responding to food and agricultural threats and crises. It is responsible for coordinating the development and maintenance of corporate tools and standards to enable Decentralized Offices to assist Members to prepare for and respond to emergencies. OER ensures humanitarian policy coordination and knowledge, liaison with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee as well as with humanitarian resource partners, co-leadership with the World Food Programme of the global Food Security Cluster, organizational preparedness, surge capacity and response to large-scale emergencies. OER supports food and nutrition security assessments and early warning activities related to emergency and humanitarian analysis and responses. OER plays a major role in the development and leadership of the Organization’s programme to increase the resilience of livelihoods to food and agriculture threats and crises.

Reporting Lines

The Forced Displacement Consultant will report to the Technical Officer (Protracted Crises), Lead Conflict and Peace Unit (CPU), OER, under the overall supervision of the Programme and Policy Team Leader, OER and the overall guidance of the OER Director.
Technical Focus

OER needs 2 profiles: Forced Displacement Specialist and Forced Displacement Adviser who will provide programme, policy and partnership support in relation to FAO’s Emergency and Resilience Programming, with a focus on forced displacement contexts and durable solutions responses (including conflict-sensitive and peace-responsive approaches). Such support will include provision of technical guidance and support to country and decentralised offices, with a focus on priority food crisis countries.

Tasks and responsibilities
Forced Displacement Specialist:

• Provide support on matters related to forced displacement and durable solutions programming (refugees, internally displaced people, returnees), including conflict-sensitive and peace-responsive approaches.
• Technical support to country and decentralized offices in relation to programming in displaced and host community contexts, with a particular focus on acutely food insecure countries, including undertaking relevant country/regional level support missions.
• Technical support to country offices in engagement with country-level durable solutions related coordination mechanisms (Durable Solutions Taskforces, UNCT, HRPs/RRPs and related processes).
• In collaboration with other OER teams support monitoring and evaluation processes, the identification, documentation and development of good/promising programmatic practices in forced displacement contexts, and support country offices in the replication and scaling-up of such practices.
• Support the strengthening of country level partnerships with forced displacement mandated agencies including UNHCR and IOM in areas of joint assessments, data collection and analysis, policy, programming and coordination.
• Develop programmatic guidance, tools, publications etc. with a view to strengthening programmatic quality of programmes and projects operating in key forced displacement contexts.
• Draft talking points and briefing notes for FAO senior management on related topics and prepare inputs to similar communications materials as required.
• Perform other related duties as required.
In addition to the above tasks, the Forced Displacement Adviser will perform the following:

• Lead and supervise work on forced displacement and durable solutions programming (refugees, internally displaced people, returnees), including conflict-sensitive and peace-responsive approaches.
• Represent FAO and lead engagement with UN system policy and resource mobilisation processes (e.g. follow-up to the Global Refugee Forum Multi-stakeholder Pledge on Agriculture, Food Systems and Food Security, and the Secretary-General’s Action Agenda on Internally Displaced Persons).

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING
Minimum Requirements

• The Forced Displacement Specialist / Forced Displacement Adviser will be required to possess a University degree in one or more of the following: International Relations, Development Studies, Social or Political Sciences, Law, Forced Displacement/Migration, Conflict or Human Security Studies, or a related field;
• The Forced Displacement Specialist will be required to possess at least 5 years of relevant experience in emergency/resilience programming and policy in forced displacement/migration contexts, including work experience with national and international NGO’s, UN agencies, governments and donors;
• The Forced Displacement Adviser will be required to possess at least 7 years of relevant experience in emergency/resilience programming and policy in forced displacement/migration contexts, including work experience with national and international NGO’s, UN agencies, governments and donors;
• Working knowledge (level C) of English.

FAO Core Competencies

• Results Focus
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Building Effective Relationships
• Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement
Technical/Functional Skills

• Work experience in more than one location or area of work, preferably including field experience in forced displacement or fragile and conflict affected contexts;
• Familiarity with the UN system and knowledge of UN system processes and policies related to forced displacement (IDPs, refugees and returnees);
• Extent and relevance of experience in forced displacement/migration related programming/project implementation and policy, particularly on durable solutions;
• Familiarity with key humanitarian/refugee coordination and response mechanisms;
• Experience in project/programme development and project cycle management;
• Experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection in displacement/migration contexts.

Selection Criteria

• Working knowledge (level C) of French is desirable.
• Limited knowledge (level B) of any other official language of the Organization (English, Arabic, French, Chinese, Spanish and Russian) would be an asset.