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The Regional Emergency Coordinator (REC) provides critical coordination and support to CARE’s emergency preparedness and response at country office and regional level.
In-between emergencies she/he works with country offices, lead members’ management, and CI and lead members’ emergency units, on strengthening capacity for preparedness, emergency response, integration of emergency programming within CARE’s program approach, humanitarian policy, and other related priority areas, in order to strengthen CARE’s humanitarian capabilities across the region. She/he also represents CARE externally at regional level in the humanitarian field with key forums, partners and donors, develops a contextual understanding of the region, and undertakes appropriate humanitarian policy and analysis.
During major emergencies, the REC will often be the first rapid response staff member to deploy from outside the country office and would support initial response start-up by the country office. The REC represents all of CI and should ensure consistency with CI global humanitarian approaches and standards.
The REC reports to the CI emergency group (CEG), but with strong links to lead members’ management structures, including both their line management and emergency units. Requirements for this position include: a Masters degree, or relevant combination of qualifications and experience, in a relevant field; a minimum of 5–10 years experience in humanitarian preparedness, large scale emergency response, programme management including experience in insecure environments, programme design, accountability, monitoring and evaluation, including SPHERE standards, donor relations, and protection considerations; excellent training, facilitation, coaching and mentoring skills; advanced oral and written communication skills. Excellent team building and interpersonal skills; willingness to spend high proportion of time travelling away from home
Please note that the current vacant position is for a Regional Emergency Coordinator to support and be based in Asia/Pacific region but we would encourage applications also for other regions that will be kept on file.
Location: Negotiable with emergency field deployments of up to 8 weeks. Salary: USD 90,000 Duration: 12 months initially with possible option to extend following an evaluation of the post’s effectiveness and funding availability.
The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) has established global clusters in eleven areas of humanitarian activity. The purpose of the cluster approach is to strengthen the effectiveness of humanitarian response during emergencies. UNICEF has been designated to lead the Global WASH Cluster with responsibility for water, sanitation and hygiene, and brings together many of the sector’s key global WASH actors.
In order to facilitate effective coordination of WASH initiatives in future emergencies the Global WASH Cluster is has built a team of three high calibre individuals who are hosted individually by three of its partners ,Oxfam, ACF and CARE.
CARE is recruiting a suitably qualified professional to join this team in the position hosted by CARE. The team member will be deployed, individually or as team, to the WASH cluster lead agency (in most cases UNICEF) to provide technical support to the WASH Cluster at country level and to assist with establishing effective coordination during emergencies. When not on deployment, individuals will support ongoing Global WASH Cluster projects and capacity building initiatives within the CARE.
You will have a suitable qualification in a WASH related discipline and substantial practical experience in responding to humanitarian crises. You will have experience in assessing, designing implementing, monitoring and evaluating emergency WASH programmes and ideally, some experience of inter-agency coordination and capacity building. Well developed interpersonal and communication skills and the ability deliver in demanding situations are essential. RRT members need to be able to travel at short notice. Fluent English is essential and a basic working knowledge of one or more of the following languages would be an advantage: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Swahili, Arabic.
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