Overall aim: Becoming recognized as a leading emergency response organisation for children in Ethiopia
ROLE PURPOSE: to manage, support and coordinate emergency responses that alleviate suffering and minimize mortality for disaster affected children and their families in Ethiopia, to ensure quality implementation of emergency projects/programmes, facilitate building capacity of regional governments on Early Warning, and in line with the organisation’s global priority for 2011: “Deliver high-quality, large scale emergency responses with strengthened internal support systems & procedures, and external resources”. Provide leadership in humanitarian emergency response programme implementation and reporting in all contexts of Save the Children humanitarian response in Ethiopia. Play an active role in national technical meetings and working groups that assesses the needs of children in various technical humanitarian working groups. Contribute to monitoring exercises, ensure the collection and management of response related data, and reports are submitted in a timely way. Reflect in technical meetings Save the Children's commitment to improving quality and accountability in humanitarian work is upheld, and complies with all relevant policies and procedures with respect to child protection, health and safety. Ensure close coordination and regular communication across SCI country office, award and budget management, timely and accurate reporting.
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SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Humanitarian Director
Dimensions: The role encompasses emergency response, chronic humanitarian programmes and resilience work across the country. A typical portfolio of programmes with a value of >$5m USD in a direct management or advisory role. Involves frequent travel, often to insecure environments, up to three months of the year.
Staff directly reporting to this post: One
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Oversight and management of humanitarian emergency programmes
Project implementation and operations management
Programmes and Grants Management Oversight;
Capacity Building
Documentation, Learning and Research
Representation, communication & relationship building
Staff Management, Mentorship, and Development – Humanitarian
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QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Academic Qualification: Minimum First Degree; Most preferred is Master’s Degree/ BSC/BA degree in DRR, Humanitarian Response, Agricultural development, Economics, Management and Related field. For Masters Degree 5 years or for BSC/BA degree 8 years of work experience in DRR, Early Warning, Humanitarian Preparedness and Response in a number of fragile or complex contexts.
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