Re-Advertisement: Emergency Manager - Response, P-4, Fixed Term Position, Amman, Jordan, #136988 (Open for all UNICEF personnel)

This is a re-advertisement, candidates who have already applied do not need to re-apply.

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

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Regional Context: The ECAMENA Regional Office leverages expertise and scale across a diverse and rapidly evolving region that is playing an increasingly important role in shaping global agendas on migration, climate, equity, digital transformation, and human capital. It supports the achievement of Strategic Plan results in a context of rising needs and constrained resources. The region encompasses all country typologies, including high-income, middle-income, and low-income contexts, as well as fragile and conflict-affected settings, each with distinct development trajectories and policy drivers. This requires differentiated approaches, agile business models, strategic partnerships, and strengthened risk management. The region is further shaped by ongoing challenges such as conflict, migration, economic volatility, and varying degrees of political openness and reform. At the same time, countries across the region are connected by shared challenges and opportunities, including investment in the early years, youth unemployment, the need for resilient national systems, and the imperative to strengthen child rights governance.

In this context, the ECAMENA Regional Office acts in line with the organization’s value proposition for Regional Offices through: (i) strategic leadership and governance; (ii) regional and political representation and engagement; (iii) programme oversight, knowledge, and foresight; (iv) digital transformation and innovation; (v) people-centered management; (vi) financial and risk management; (vii) supply and logistics; (viii) emergency preparedness and response; (ix) communication and strategic advocacy; and (x) partnerships and financing.

Functional Context: In the humanitarian context, the ECAMENA Regional Office supports Country Offices across a region exposed to a wide range of humanitarian risks, including conflict, displacement, mixed migration, climate-related shocks, natural hazards, disease outbreaks, and protracted fragility. The region also faces increasingly interconnected and cross-border humanitarian pressures which require strong regional analysis, harmonized preparedness approaches, and timely operational support. These risks require strong regional leadership to strengthen internal and national preparedness, support timely and high-quality emergency response, reinforce risk-informed programming, and advance resilience through systems strengthening, partnerships, and coordinated humanitarian action. Within this framework, the Emergency Manager - Response serves as a key operational and technical arm of the regional humanitarian function. The role supports the Regional Adviser Emergency in translating regional strategic direction into practical preparedness, response, coordination, and implementation support to Country Offices. It contributes to emergency readiness, response quality, operational continuity, and stronger linkages between humanitarian action, resilience, and systems strengthening across the ECAMENA region

Under the direction and guidance of the Regional Adviser Emergency (P-5), the Emergency Manager - Response (P-4) coordinates overall Regional Office emergency preparedness and response support to Country Offices in coordination with relevant Centres of Excellence and divisions. The post is responsible for the development, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of emergency interventions, including fund-raising for emergency activities, to help ensure the survival and well-being of children, women, and affected communities in emergencies. The role provides coordination and support for policy and programme planning and management in UNICEF-supported emergency programmes, strengthens regional and country readiness through multi-hazard and anticipatory approaches, and supports coherent, timely, and high-quality emergency action aligned with inter-agency frameworks, national systems, and the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action. The incumbent also supervises and provides technical guidance to assigned staff and team members.

Summary of key functions and accountabilities:

1. Emergency Preparedness and Readiness
2. Emergency Response Management and Surge Support
3. Strategic Coordination, Partnerships, and Humanitarian Representation
4. Programme Integration, Planning, and Resource Mobilization
5. Capacity Building, Localization, and Systems Strengthening
6. Management of the Function / Team Segment

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: JD - Emergency Manager - Response P-4_136988.pdf

Minimum requirements:

• Education: An advanced university degree (Master's Degree or equivalent) in one of the following fields is required: social sciences, public administration, law, public health, nutrition, international relations, business administration, or another related discipline. A combination of management, administration, and relevant technical fields is highly desirable. 
  A Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in a relevant area combined with 2 additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree. This is applicable to internal (FT, Continuing and Permanent) staff only.
• Work Experience: A minimum of eight (8) years of progressively responsible professional work experience at the national and international levels in programme or project development, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, administration, emergency preparedness and response, or other closely related areas is required. Specialized training and experience in complex emergency response management is required. Field work experience in complex and high-threat emergency settings is required. 
• Skills: Emergency preparedness, Response management, Risk analysis, Stakeholder coordination, Strategic planning
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.

Desirables:

1. Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
2. ECAMENA contextual experience, Regional Emergency, Policy advisory, Data analysis, Team leadership, Fieldwork
3. Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

UNICEF's Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
(8) Nurtures, leads and manages people

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This position has been assessed as an elevated risk role for Child Safeguarding purposes as it is either a role with direct contact with children, a role that works directly with identifiable children's data, a safeguarding response role, or an assessed risk role. Additional vetting and assessment for elevated risk roles in child safeguarding (potentially including additional criminal background checks) apply.

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.

Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable candidates are encouraged to apply.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants' bank account information.

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF's Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.

Advertised: 09 Jul 2026 Jordan Standard Time
Applications close: 16 Jul 2026 Jordan Standard Time

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