Background
Nearly half a billion children worldwide live in conflict zones. War Child has an ambition to increase its capability to respond to acute needs of children affected by war, and to respond to emergencies that exacerbate the existing impact of ongoing conflicts. To achieve this, War Child is investing in developing enhanced preparedness and emergency response procedures, tools and approaches, while providing closer coordination and support to response teams during emergencies.
Your Challenge
The Humanitarian Response Coordinator will support War Child in enhancing its response capability, both in and outside times of emergency. This includes support with the development and roll out of new preparedness and response policies, procedures and tools, improving information management both internally and externally, and internal coordination during the acute phase of new emergencies. The role will have a particular focus on the training of country teams and resource mobilization, providing both advisory and direct support to response teams.
Your Responsibilities
Emergency Response Management
- Provide direct and agile support to Response Management Teams, including general coordination across internal stakeholders to resolve issues and align efforts.
- Coordinate the timely review, approval, disbursement, tracking and reporting of requests from country offices from War Child’s Emergency Fund.
- Work with Head of Humanitarian Programming to identify and leverage networks that add value to ongoing emergency responses.
- Support response teams with resource mobilization during first phase emergencies, including proposal writing.
- Deploy into emergencies, remotely or in-country, to fill critical gaps as required.
Information Management
- Design, develop and manage the architecture and mechanism to collect, collate and disseminate humanitarian information in a timely, predictable and professional manner.
- Develop and maintain a Context Analysis and Foresight tool as an early warning mechanism for War Child Country Offices and function leads.
- In coordination with country teams, produce internal Alerts to inform and mobilize relevant stakeholders around emerging crises.
- Upgrade and maintain an effective Virtual Operations Room, ensuring key procedures, tools and response-specific information is categorized, regularly updated and accessible.
- Develop and maintain an Emergency Response Dashboard, keeping comms and fundraising teams updated on key developments and achievements.
- Produce periodic reports for major emergencies, supported by ad hoc updates to support communications and fundraising teams on content development and donor/supporter engagement.
- Ensure as far as possible that requests for information from Country Offices are relevant, targeted and aligned with existing reporting mechanisms.
Preparedness Management
- Support the development, dissemination and institutionalization of War Child’s Preparedness Framework and Tools.
- Capture, coordinate and drive the completion of organizational and country-level preparedness actions, arising from annual planning and preparedness planning exercises.
- Facilitate preparedness planning exercises with high-risk country offices, supporting teams in the development of Emergency Preparedness and Contingency Plans.
- Maintain an active internal and external Emergency Roster in coordination with Human Resources, Department Heads and Regional Offices.
Your Profile
- Minimum 5 years of relevant professional work experience in the humanitarian sector, ideally with experience of developing and delivering programmes in emergencies.
- Experience in the design and delivery of Emergency Preparedness Plans.
- Knowledge of humanitarian funding mechanisms and development of successful proposals.
- Self-starter, able to take the initiative and work with limited supervision.
- Proven ability to foster collaboration and achieve results across departments with competing priorities.
- Able to work effectively with colleagues from different cultural and professional backgrounds.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, SharePoint).
- Knowledge of creative data visualisation methods.
- Good understanding and commitment to humanitarian values and principles, the humanitarian charter, Sphere and sector specific standards, Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Disaster Relief, Core Humanitarian Standard, IASC guidelines, Child Safeguarding and IASC Six Core Principles Relating to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.
- University graduate, preferably with an advanced degree in social sciences or other relevant fields, or equivalent work experience.
- Fluency in English and a second War Child language (Arabic and/or French) is preferred.
Location
Any country where War Child has its offices. The successful candidate must be eligible to work in that country. Preference will be given to local candidates.
Our Offer
Depending on the duty station, local contract with salary and secondary labour conditions based on the country’s salary scale and T&C’s will apply.
The Organisation
War Child is a young and dynamic organisation. We try to keep an informal ambiance within our office, with a lot of room for creativity, inspiration and self-initiative from employees. We practice what we preach: dynamic, innovative, integrity focused and a drive to reach the highest possible results against the lowest possible costs. War Child offers a challenging job in an inspiring workplace.
How to apply
Interested and qualified candidates are invited to apply before 31 October 2023. Make sure to upload your English CV (maximum of two pages) and cover letter by using the following hyperlink:
https://www.warchildholland.org/regular-vacancies/humanitarian-response-coordinator/
N.B. War Child will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and reserves the right to close the vacancy if a successful candidate is identified prior to the closing date.
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