CARE is seeking an Emergency Coordinator to provide support to CARE Country Offices in the Southern African sub region on emergency preparedness and response. The position is a six (6) month short-term contract targeted to start June 1, 2016 and ending December 31, 2016. The selected incumbent can be based in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi or Mozambique.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor the humanitarian situation in the sub region in coordination with the Country Offices (CO);
- Produce short update reports on the needs and potential risk in the sub region;
- Facilitate/lead the Emergency Preparedness process in each CO;
- Identify with the CO the needs in terms of Capacity Building and take action accordingly;
- During a humanitarian crisis, take part in the decision making process for potential response;
- Monitor the humanitarian response of the COs through regular field visit and Care International reporting tools;
- Work closely with the Regional Emergency Coordinator for East and Central Africa on the definition of the priorities for the sub region.
Qualifications:
- University degree in a relevant field or relevant combination of qualifications and experience;
- At minimum five (5) years’ experience in humanitarian preparedness, risk reduction and response;
- Experience in program design, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, including Sphere standards, donor relations, security and protection considerations;
- Experience in scale-up emergency response
- Experience and knowledge of the South African region;
- Excellent training, coaching and mentoring skills;
- High level of writing and communication skills,
- Willingness to spend high proportion of time travelling away from home, approximately 50% and be deployed with limited notice period;
- Fluent English, French and/or Portuguese language skills.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please visit CARE’s Career Website at http://www.care.org/careers to submit your cover letter and resume.
