Associate Inter Agency Coordination Officer

The Associate Inter-Agency Coordination Officer supports UNHCR's inter-agency coordination responsibilities in Türkiye, facilitating national-level coordination processes and engagement with sector and thematic coordination structures. The role involves strategic planning, coordination, monitoring of inter-agency processes, and supporting government validation and buy-in for key strategies and coordination outputs.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to inter agency processes, including coordination in refugee settings and cluster coordination in IDP settings.
• Include partners in any UNHCR led interagency response, respecting their respective mandates and programme priorities.
• Provide appropriate support for operational planning and forward looking coordination of the inter-agency humanitarian and development response.
• Support the planning of adequate contingency and preparedness for new emergencies/scenarios.
• Close follow up on strategic, operational, and day to day basic assistance sector/cluster issues.
• Coordinate the basic assistance Sector by chairing regular working groups meetings, ensuring all agencies in the sector are adequately represented, liaise closely with donors and governmental institutions.
• Provide close guidance and support to basic assistance working groups at field level.
• Provide analysis on key humanitarian/development issues and trends in collaboration with information management team.
• Conduct regular programmatic and funding gaps analysis.
• Support development of harmonized assessment, monitoring and evaluation activities in line with agreed inter agency response.
• Draft correspondence, documents and reports, guidance notes, background information for meetings and workshops.
• Conduct regular field visits to support and build capacity of field working groups and ensure field perspectives underpin sector strategy.
• Develop harmonized referral system for the sector with information management team.
• Liaise with external partners and local organizations on behalf of sectors, Interagency Coordination Unit, and UNHCR.
• Lead, facilitate, and organize dedicated Sector Working Group meetings and technical task forces.
• Prioritize tasks and organize work independently.
• Engage with all sectors and identify IA Coordination activities.
• Make recommendations on IA Coordination issues.
• Work closely with government counterparts on basic assistance issues.
• Support identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives.
• Raise risks, issues and concerns to supervisor or relevant functional colleagues.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in humanitarian or development programme implementation, including experience in facilitating inter-agency coordination at sector or macro-level.
• Undergraduate degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Economics, International Relations, Political Affairs, or other relevant field.
• Knowledge of the UN system, NGOs and related planning and coordination practices.
• Knowledge of MS Office applications.
• Knowledge of refugee protection principles and framework.
• Presentation delivery and/or public speaking experience.
• Desirable: Expertise in emergency response and preparedness planning and monitoring, including understanding of related standards and indicators.
• Desirable: Expertise in assessments, monitoring and evaluation, research for programmes, and policy/context analysis.
• Desirable: Experience in coordinating and implementing cash based interventions, including harmonization of practices and operating procedures.
• Desirable: Experience in leading and facilitating meetings, delivering presentations, and conducting trainings for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Desirable: Experience in interagency response coordination.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and organize work independently.
• Strong facilitation, communication, drafting and presentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively in emergency situations and rapidly changing operational environments.
• Experience engaging a broad range of institutional stakeholders including public institutions, municipalities, Red Cross and Red Crescent actors, development organisations, international financial institutions, donors and local or refugee-led organisations.
• Experience supporting localisation or institutional ownership and maintaining constructive relationships across organisations.
• Experience designing or supporting multi-sectoral project mapping, monitoring or information management exercises.
• Familiarity with data analysis, presentation of findings and development of accessible analytical products.
• Ability to remain composed and solutions-oriented under pressure, balance strategic considerations with operational detail, and communicate constructively across hierarchies and organisations.

Skills

• Humanitarian Programme Management
• Development Programme Implementation
• Inter-agency Coordination
• UN System Knowledge
• NGO coordination practices
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Refugee Protection Principles
• Presentation Delivery
• Public Speaking
• Emergency Response
• Preparedness Planning
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Programme Research
• Policy Analysis
• Cash-Based Interventions
• Meeting Facilitation
• Training Delivery
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Multi-sectoral project mapping
• Data Analysis

Languages

English