Summary
Date Posted: Friday, April 02, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Job Description
This role can be based in Tanzania, Burundi, Central African Republic or DRC.
As Regional Emergency Director (RED), you will provide strategic and operational leadership to building emergency response capacity and implementing high quality responses in the Great Lakes Region. In close collaboration with technical and operational counterparts, you will advise and guide decision making for Country, Regional and Emergency and Humanitarian Action Unit (EHAU) leadership around where, when, and how IRC will build capacity and respond to emergencies and you will coordinate and lead support to emergency responders at country level. You will be responsible for ensuring that IRC’s work on emergency capacity strengthening, preparedness and response meet both IRC’s and international standards.
The RED is a senior position within regional and EHAU management teams. In this role, you are responsible for assuring quality of IRC’s emergency response and preparedness activities within their region. A central component of this role is to facilitate collaboration and coordination between country, regional and EHAU technical and operational counterparts, assuring cohesive and connected support to country programs. .

Responsibilities
• Ensure the timely planning and implementation of contextualized emergency responses, which are aligned with IRC standards, policies, and global best practice.
• Promote and support high-quality emergency needs assessments to inform response decisions and strategies.
• Promote decisions and strategy development that are informed by analysis of humanitarian context.
• Advise go, no-go response decisions, provide guidance and sign-off on response strategies.
• Advise and support on securing funding opportunities, donor compliance, and donor engagement to execute response strategies.
• Coordinate technical, operational, financial, and human resources to support response activities.
• Lead on response evaluation, information sharing and knowledge management around emergency responses to promote learning within and across regions.
• Deploy as needed to lead emergency responses e.g. for start-up, for large or particularly complex responses, or as a gap fill in ongoing responses.
• Support deployed EHAU Emergency Country Directors and Team Leads, e.g. through sharing of contextual knowledge, coordination, information sharing with regional colleagues, facilitation of donor conversations, strategic guidance etc.& security inputs and support to emergency responses.
• Support Emergency Response team-led (ERT) responses as needed.
• Collaboratively work with country programs and EHAU to ensure smooth management and operational transition to country programs after response.
• Support development of an overarching IRC global emergency capacity building and preparedness framework.
• Using IRC’s global framework, lead the development of a region-specific plan for emergency capacity building.
• Assure the quality implementation of the regional plan by providing direct support and coordinating with technical and operational counterparts within country, regional and EHAU teams.
• Lead in measuring and tracking progress against preparedness and capacity goals, information sharing and knowledge management to promote learning within and across regions.
• Coordinate the provision of mentorship from various functional areas to CPs, including direct deployment to build emergency capacity/readiness as required.
• Support country programs to achieve partnership objectives by providing capacity strengthening to partners in areas related to emergency preparedness and response.
• Serve as the primary focal point in the region to coordinate across relevant technical units, country teams and partners to drive our efforts to strengthen capacity, competencies and to grow the impact of DRR, DP and Resilience programming across the region.
• Assure effective community of practice and learning across the IRC country teams in the region to information, share learning, build on strengths, and support continuous improvement.
• Ensure that the IRC remains responsive to emerging humanitarian issues and maintains its position as a leading humanitarian agency.
• Oversee the process to identify and monitor the regional humanitarian environment against key indicators and provide regular updates on the regional situation to EHAU, regional and country program leadership.
• Represent the IRC in relevant humanitarian meetings, fora and workshops at regional level, ensuring collaboration with other humanitarian agencies, the UN, etc. and coordinate information sharing on current and emerging humanitarian methodologies, approaches, techniques and policies.
• Act as focal point for emergency-related crisis analysis.

Job Skills : Not Specified

Qualifications
• A leader with specific geographic experience in delivering complex humanitarian emergency preparedness and response programs within the Great Lakes Region.
• A professional with substantial experience in senior (regional) management roles and dynamic levels of responsibility.
• Extensive lived experience and deep understanding of the Great Lakes Regional context.
• Proven operational analysis and management skills, including project management.
• A thorough and critical problem solver, who can think analytically, plan strategically and implement long term goals while remaining adaptive and flexible to changing circumstances.
• A strong communicator who is committed to open and transparent communication.
• high integrity and ethical standards with excellent interpersonal skills, collegial behavior, high energy, positive and creative leader.
• A consistent record serving as a role model, empowering others to translate vision into results; effective at delegating the appropriate responsibility, accountability, and decision-making authority.
• A receptive and collaborative team leader who adaptively manages and supports development of direct and indirect reports.
• High dedication to cultivate and maintain positive, safe and protective working environment of gender equality, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully work in fast-paced, often insecure, and stressful environments.
• Professional fluency in written and spoken English and French required.
• Ability to travel up to 60% of the year.

Work Hours: 8

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Interested applicants please visit: https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/14096?c=rescue 

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