Job Title: 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.
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:
Global Band 10 (€101,635 - €109,792)
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.
* Ensuring that Concern's security policy and guidance documents reflect good practice and that appropriate SMPs and SRM mechanisms are in place in all of our countries of operation.
* Leading organisation Crisis Management Teams in response to critical incidents in any of our countries of operation.
* Reviewing the effectiveness of other surge capacity mechanisms such as the Rapid Deployment Unit and considering ways to improve organisational surge capacity.
Requirements:
* 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.
* Experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams.
* Proven ability to develop security risk management policies and good practice.
* Proven ability to design and deliver training courses in security risk management, humanitarian policies and practice, and other relevant areas of humanitarian programming.
Working Conditions:
Will be deployed to an emergency at short notice. Willingness and ability to travel to any of Concern existing or potential country programmes as deemed necessary.