Emergency Response Manager - Roving (Afghan Nationals Only)

Crisis & Emergency Response

Overview

Assist in humanitarian program strategy and management for timely response

You have:

• Bachelor’s in business administration or relevant field with at least 4-5 years of experience working with NGOs or development agencies in humanitarian response.
• Experience of managing or leading humanitarian response program e.g. Cash Program, Emergency Shelter, Early Recovery, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Emergency Response.
• Excellent program development, proposal and report writing skills.
• Ability to guarantee effective and timely outputs.
• Highly developed budget monitoring and management skills.
• Strong commitment to support/develop capacity of national staff and developing second layer of leadership.
• Proven management ability and inter-personal skills – team player.
• Problem solving and leadership skills.
• Ability to deal with difficult, often frustrating work situations.
• A willingness to live and work in insecure environment with movement restrictions.
• Sensitivity to Islamic and traditional culture.
• Knowledge of exit strategies and sustainability issues.
• Previous work experience in Afghanistan.
• Working knowledge of local language (Dari or Pashto).

Work Arrangement:

Job Description

- Assist the Emergency Response Coordinator in developing the humanitarian program strategy. - Contribute to formulating program implementation framework based on the IRC humanitarian program guidelines. - Ensure staff practice with Beneficiaries adheres to best-practice principles when working with IDPs/Returnees/Refugees and that all staff use participatory approaches to working with the community. - Support ERC in the capacity assessment of local and national civil society organization for potential partnership and sub-contracting relating to a specific project - To support ERC to manage program funds as allocated in the awarded grants to ensure the attainment of all objectives within the authorized budgets. - Conduct COME Care training for project staffs while needed and support them assessment on data quality check. - Conduct regular field visits to assess progress toward objectives, discuss issues and assist the provincial Program Managers in finding solutions to challenges identified. - Manage and provide technical support to provincial ER managers ER support officers and surveillance officers in Kabul. - Manage of recruitment process and follow up with HR department. - Share progress report/ meeting minutes with ER coordinator any time require. - Update project implementation and monitoring plan on monthly basis. - Focal point for report compiling and sharing the report with grant department. - Assist the ERC in conduction the monthly program management meetings with Provincial Program Managers to review progress of programs and prepare plan of action. - Keep close coordination with key stakeholders at provincial level e.g. government authorities, donors, and civil society organizations - In the absence of the REC represent the IRC in coordination forums e.g. humanitarian clusters (CVWG, ES/NFI, FSAC, etc) Afghanistan Humanitarian Forums, and UNOCHA - liaison with finance to ensure that financial reports are prepared in timely manner and have provided feedback to the finance team in case of any variance - Work closely with Supply Chain to ensure that procurements are made in a timely manner while remaining in compliance with IRC and donor rules and regulations, and ensure that proper procurement procedures are followed by Humanitarian Program staff - Develop information systems to ensure accurate, timely and complete data and information for assessments, monitoring and evaluation, internal and external reporting, planning, decision-making and program learning - Ensure that the IRC’s humanitarian program in Afghanistan adheres to the IRC standards and quality as well as relevant international policies - Ensuring appropriate technical assistance is provided to field teams in timely and professional manner - Task delegation to staff, provide day to day support to the departmental team - Work closely with the ERC in building and developing capacity of ER teams through formal training sessions, mentoring, and coaching in the areas of project management cycle, reporting and proposal development.

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s in business administration and or relevant with at least 4- 5 years of experience working with NGOs or development agencies in humanitarian response. - Experience of managing or leading humanitarian response program e.g. Cash Program, Emergency Shelter, Early Recovery, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Emergency Response. - Excellent program development, proposal and report writing skills - Ability to guarantee effective and timely outputs - Highly developed budget monitoring and management skills - Strong commitment to support/develop capacity of national staff and developing second layer of leadership - Proven management ability and inter-personal skills – team player - Problem solving and leadership skills - Proficiency in most common computer software including word processing, spreadsheets - Ability to deal with difficult, often frustrating work situations - A willingness to live and work in insecure environment with movement restrictions - Sensitivity to Islamic and traditional culture - Ability to manage conflicting priorities in personal workload - Knowledge of exit strategies and sustainability issues - Previous work experience in Afghanistan - Working knowledge of local language (Dari or Pashto)

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Added 1 year ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: rescue.org