Emergency Director
The Emergency Director is responsible for promoting adherence to the organisation's commitment to the delivery of principled humanitarian responses, and for developing its capacity to respond efficiently and effectively to emergencies in new and existing countries of operation.
Key Responsibilities:
* Evolving and promoting adherence to the organisation's commitment to the delivery of principled humanitarian responses in a manner consistent with good practice standards.
* Maintaining a watching brief on emerging crises and ensuring responses are established in a timely manner to crises in which we do not have a prior presence.
* Ensuring a commitment to learning from our responses, including through the completion of regular evaluations of emergency responses.
* Developing and supporting emergency preparedness, mitigation, and response activities in existing country programmes through effective Disaster Risk Reduction programming and the development and implementation of plans to ensure preparedness for effective emergency responses.
Salary: €102,272 - €113,635 (Global Band 10)
This role requires significant proven and demonstrable experience of working in an overseas context, preferably with experience of both development and humanitarian contexts, or in contexts of protracted or complex crises. At least five years' experience at a senior management level in an overseas humanitarian context is also required.
The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to develop security risk management policies and good practice, as well as the ability to design and deliver training courses in security risk management, humanitarian policies and practice, and other relevant areas of humanitarian programming.