Regional Humanitarian Director - ECA at CARE

RESPONSIBILITIES

Humanitarian Response - Support to Country Presences (CPs)

• Deploy as Team Leader or any other role to support the CP response to a humanitarian crisis or deploy for the initial assessment in a new Presence Response.
• Coordinate the CARE Confederation response by leading CCG Type 1/2 calls and supporting calls led by HQ for Type 3/4.

Drive Humanitarian Program Quality

• Provide vision and strategic direction to all of CARE’s humanitarian work across all CPs working in the region, feeding into the Regional Road Map and CP's program strategies.

Enable Country Presence Preparedness and Capacity

• Support and advise County Presences and CARE Partners on emergency preparedness planning (EPP) and minimum preparedness action.

Ensure Humanitarian Representation and Information Sharing

• Represent and build CARE's humanitarian profile in regional forums and meetings in the with regional entities, UN humanitarian agencies, other NGOs, partners, region-based emergency donors, inter-agency working groups.

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Master’s degree, or relevant combination of qualifications and experience, in a relevant field.
2. Minimum 10 years’ experience in humanitarian preparedness, risk reduction and response.
3. Proven experience and competencies in external representation to key external stakeholders such as Donors, UN Agencies, and I/INGOs.
4. Experience in programme design, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, including the CORE Humanitarian Standards, SPHERE standards, Grand Bargain, gender, donor relations, security and protection considerations.
5. Experience in scale-up emergency response, Gender in Emergencies; women's empowerment programming and humanitarian accountability.
6. Excellent training, coaching and mentoring skills.