Descripción del puesto
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA ROLAC) Panama is the agency of the United Nations Secretariat responsible for bringing together humanitarian actors to ensure a coherent response to emergencies. OCHA also ensures there is a framework within which each actor can contribute to the overall response efforts.
The position Programme Associate is in the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN- OCHA) Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC). This position reports to Regional Disaster Response Advisor.
OCHA´s mission is to mobilize and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors to alleviate human suffering in disasters and emergencies; advocate the rights of people in need; promote preparedness and prevention and facilitate sustainable solutions.
OCHA is seeking a Programme Associate, a Fixed-Term Appointment (FTA), GS6 . This contract is for one (1) year with possibility of extension. The incumbent reports to the to Regional Disaster Response Advisor.
Location: Clayton, City of Knowledge, Arnoldo Cano Arosemena & Vicente Bonilla Streets, Building No. 128, ground floor.
Responsibilities: Within delegated authority, the Programme Associate will be responsible for the following duties, among others:
- Supports the monitoring and analysis of the dynamic humanitarian landscape and its associated operational challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
- Research, compiles, analyses, summarizes, and presents basic information/data on humanitarian related topics.
- Contributes to the preparation of donor reports and to the development of information products on humanitarian situations such as situation reports, dashboards, briefing notes, and thematic updates.
- Drafts correspondence and contributes to communications related to internal products—including workplans and prepares the unit’s inputs for periodic internal reports on operational matters.
- Support the development of presentations, training modules, and other materials required for sessions, workshops, emergency preparedness simulations, and other capacity‑building activities.
- Support the organization of OCHA-led humanitarian coordination meetings in Panama and assist the follow up of the coordination meetings' decisions and action points with correspondent stakeholders.
- Serves as focal point for any thematic working group at regional level related to cross-cutting issues like gender, protection, accountability to affected people or others if needed.
Requisitos
Recruitment Qualifications:
Education:
- Higher Secondary Education is required.
- A bachelor’s degree in business or public Administration, Economics, Political Sciences and Social Sciences will be given due consideration.
Experience:
- A Minimum 6 years (with high school diploma) or 3 years (with bachelor’s degree) of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian affairs and disaster management experience is required at the national or international level.
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and advance knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.
- Experience of organizing trainings/workshops for the operations/ projects staff on programme is required.
- Relevant experience of working with international or development organizations is required.
- Ability to review and edit documents, and ability to produce meeting reports identifying key actions, is required.
Languages:
- English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, high intermediate level in oral and written English is required and fluency in Spanish is mandatory.
- Knowledge of another official United Nations language, such as French, is an advantage.
Note:
*Interested candidates must complete the online application through the following link:
https://estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/33438
Just the applications received through this website will be checked.
*Deadline: April 23, 2026.