Job Vacancies Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
POSITION Interregional Adviser on Vulnerability Assessment, P-5
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS 24 Sep 2010
DATE OF ISSUANCE  25 Aug 2010
Closing Date Friday, 24 September 2010
ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT  Department of Economic and Social Affairs
DUTY STATION  New York
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER:      10-PGM-DESA-424638-S-NEW YORK
Remuneration
Depending on professional background, experience and family situation, a competitive compensation and benefits package is offered.
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Responsibilities
# Under the supervision of the Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division, the Interregional Adviser will be responsible for the following duties: Further develops and operationalizes, in collaboration with staff of the Division, the conceptual framework for DESAs integrated monitoring and analysis system for crisis responsiveness (IMAS), and facilitates its adaptation to the needs of beneficiary countries and agencies.
# Develops a related data template which can be applied and adapted by developing countries for their own analysis and for organizing new official data collections, including through liaising with the UN Statistical Division.
# Develops conceptual linkages between IMAS and DESAs global and country economic modeling frameworks.
# Liaises with relevant professional networks and makes relevant external capacity development resources available to DESA
# Provides policy advice through short-term field missions to Governments and other relevant stakeholders in developing countries upon their request on aspects of economic vulnerability assessments and/or the implementation of a monitoring and analysis system that is adjusted to the country-specific context and allows conducting vulnerability assessments and developing appropriate policy responses to better shield the country from different types of exogenous shocks.
# Provides leadership in the design of capacity development programmes, projects and activities aimed at supporting countries in adopting and adjusting the necessary tools for vulnerability assessments at the national, regional and global levels and contributes to the implementation, as well as to the reporting on and the monitoring and evaluation of these initiatives.
# Ensures implementation of gender mainstreaming guidelines by assessing the implications for men and women of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels.
# Makes substantive contributions to global/ regional/sub-regional/national workshops, seminars, colloquia, other training events, including proposals concerning agenda topics, possible participants, preparation of documents and presentations, etc.
# Contributes to the Departments resource mobilization strategies, notably as far as extra-budgetary funding is concerned;
# Organizes and supervises work of staff dedicated to the capacity development activities in the realm of vulnerability assessments, and coordinates their work with collaborating entities and beneficiary agencies.
# Assumes other tasks in his / her area of expertise and in line with capacity development guidance as requested by the supervisor