Humanitarian Technical Capacity Building Learning Advisor at Indepth Research Services (IRES)

We seek to recruit an aggressive, confident, fluent, mature and keen to detail Humanitarian Trainee& Learning advisor to manage all communications, both internally and externally on full time basis.

Responsibilities

Training and curriculum Development

• Identify the Humanitarian training needs, plan and implement training that meets these needs.
• Coach, train, and mentor Humanitarian Officers with the aim of strengthening their technical capacity, exchanging knowledge within the Humanitarian team and providing professional development guidance in conjunction with the Training Manager.
• Co-facilitation of international trainings workshops in Humanitarian work and Disaster to our corporate and NGOs clients.
• Provide feedback and suggestions on course design and materials to support any areas that need improvement.
• Review all course curriculums on a regular basis to be prepared to conduct any course assigned on short-notice. ​

Business Development

• Preparing proposal and responding to related EOI and RFPs
• Following up new business opportunities and setting up meetings
• Planning and preparing presentations
• Communicating new product developments to prospective clients
• Overseeing the development of marketing literature
• Writing reports
• Providing management with feedback

Key responsibilities in consultancy work

• To provide scientific support in implementing various research projects
• Implementing field surveys, collecting and processing secondary data, developing research reports, policy briefs, communication materials, and presentations on research
• Implement farm level, household, market and consumer surveys, and collect and manage secondary data
• Facilitate focus group discussions and key informant interviews in selected areas
• Data entry, cleaning and management of survey data
• Managing electronic surveys: programming of tablets (for example with CSPro, ODK), retrieving and assembling the data, cleaning and organizing
• Locate, assemble and analyze secondary data relevant for specific research
• Conduct statistical and econometric analysis of survey and other data using STATA, SPSS or other standard statistical software
• Conduct literature reviews and assist in preparing strategy documents, research reports and policy briefs to strengthen research and publication efforts

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor degree in Disaster Management, Sociology, Public Health, International Development, or another relevant field,
• Certification in M&E
• Experience in facilitating M&E workshops
• Knowledge of GIS and Remote Sensing
• Excellent knowledge in data management and analysis applications including Stata, SPSS, R and Advanced Excel.
• Sound knowledge and field experience of humanitarian relief issues and a commitment to humanitarian relief.
• Demonstrable competence in and enthusiasm for practical training methods.
• A sound appreciation of the range of personal and technical issues facing relief workers such as health, International law, quality standard, gender etc.
• Computer literacy in MS Office is essential
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a humanitarian training environment with a focus on Adult Learning.
• 27 years and above
• Must be able to deliver under strict deadlines and handle pressure effectively.