DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division, TCE works in post-disaster and complex emergency situations and helps to protect, restore and enhance food production and the livelihoods of farmers, herders, fishers and associated processors and artisans.

• Under the supervision of the Director, TCE, in close collaboration with the TCE Service Chiefs, will provide to division’s senior management the strategic support in the management of the Division. In particular:
• coordinate and guide the work of divisional professional and general service staff involved in administration;
• lead the development, design and implementation of guidelines and practices to improve TCE business processes for efficiency and effectiveness in headquarters and decentralised offices;
• ensure the establishment of planning and monitoring framework to enhance the delivery of FAO's emergency and rehabilitation programme;
• foster adequate training and briefing of staff in the Emergency Coordination Units and decentralized offices on emergency matters;
• advise the Director on the distribution of the portfolios among services and monitor forecasts of actual expenditures and incomes based on the set objectives;
• interact and foster collaboration with technical divisions to ensure appropriate support to FAO emergency programme;
• contribute to the dissemination of best practices in terms of programmes and activities; as well as liaise with relevant units both at HQ and in the field to resolve ad hoc administrative and managerial questions as they arise;
• represent TCE on working groups dealing with administrative and managerial issues;
• coordinate the planning and implementation of the Programme of Work and Budget of the Division;
• coordinate the activities related to the divisional human resources management , advice and make proposals for position management, recruitment strategies, staffing reviews and staff development; lead organization change programmes, such as implementation of organizational restructuring and staff redeployment; and act as a divisional focal point for AFH and PBE, i.e. coordinate the responses related to human resources and budget;
• perform other related duties as required.

**APPOINTMENT/PROMOTION TO THE POST IS TEMPORARY AS ITS DURATION IS FOR ONE YEAR,
WITH POSSIBILITY OF EXTENSION

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Candidates should meet the following:

SELECTION CRITERIA
Candidates will be assessed against the following:

Please note that all candidates should possess computer/word processing skills and should be capable of working with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.
* The length of appointment for internal FAO candidates will be established in accordance with applicable policies pertaining to the extension of appointments.

TO APPLY: Carefully read and follow the Guidelines to applicants

Send your application to:

V.A TCED-418-09-PRJ
Mr D. Macfarlane, TCED
FAO Via delle Terme di Caracalla 00100 Rome ITALY
Fax No: +39 06 5705 4941

E-mail: TCED-Secretariat@fao.org

This vacancy is open to male and female candidates. Applications from qualified women candidates and applications from qualified candidates from non/under-represented member states are encouraged. Please note that FAO staff members are international civil servants subject to the authority of the Director-General and may be assigned to any activities or office of the organization.

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