All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and believes shall guide our actions and relationships.
1. Role and responsibilities
The Emergency Assistant is responsible for providing support to NRC’s emergency programs ensuring that distribution processes are in accordance with NRC and donor’s guidelines and procedures. This includes preparation and management at distribution sites and liaising with all stakeholders i.e. beneficiaries, volunteers and community leaders. He/she needs to be ready to be deployed in any of the NRC areas of operation with short notice, in order to support NRC’s distribution and emergency interventions.
Generic responsibilities (max 10)
These responsibilities shall be the same for all positions with the same title. The responsibilities shall be short and essential. Details belong in the Work and Development plan.
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Specific responsibilities
These responsibilities shall be adapted to the particularities of the job location and context, phase of operation, strategic focus and type of programme intervention. This section shall be revised whenever a new employee is hired or the context changes significantly.
Generic professional competencies:
• Data management and IT tools experience
• Experience in conducting field-level data collection
• Relevant minimum one to three years of experience in participating in emergency responses (distributions of humanitarian materials and related…)
• University Degree in relevant course-health, business management, statistics, sociology, engineering and related fields of study
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Some knowledge of English
Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:
· Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
· Strict attention to policy and practice detail
· Very strong emergency context analysis skills
· High integrity
· Good knowledge of emergency reporting systems
· Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
· Good cultural awareness and sensitivity
· Ability to function independently and as a work team leader/facilitator
· Excellent computer skills with hands on experience on computer utilization; and Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.