Global Emergency Coordinator - Maternity Cover

Contract

This is a DRC - National contract. More about DRC - National contracts.

Who are we?

The Emergency Unit which is part of the Strategy, Programme and Learning Department in Headquarters (HQ) is responsible for leading The Danish Refugee Councils (DRC’s) approach to emergency preparedness and response, through strategy, policies and concepts. The Unit provides specialist surge staff, funding, training, and other technical support to country and regional operations. The Unit’s goal is to ensure that the organisation is prepared to provide timely, relevant, principled, and quality assistance at scale during an acute crisis.

About the job

The Danish Refugee Council, one of the world’s leading humanitarian Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs), is currently looking for a highly qualified Global Emergency Coordinator for the HQ Emergency Unit. The role is key in administering and coordinating surge staff and flexible financing support provided to DRC’s emergency operations, as well as to various aspects of project management and reporting.

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Daily oversight, support to and coordination of DRC's emergency response team (EMPACT). This includes working with country offices to arrange deployments, conducting post-deployment debriefs, calculating and allocating salary costs, and any other support to team members.
• Coordinate flexible emergency funding allocations, including supporting country offices in proposal development, quality assurance, maintaining an overall status of allocations, and working closely with finance and fundraising colleagues to ensure proper procedures are followed.
• Provide advice and support in grants matters to countries receiving emergency funding.
• Consolidate reporting for all emergency funding grants and preparation of final reports. Work with Finance colleagues to ensure financial reports are prepared for audit, compliant with donor regulations, and work with MEAL on rep monitoring and reporting data.
• Provide overall budget monitoring, financial and grants management and expenses control for HQ emergency projects, including allocation of HQ salaries and payment of invoices where required
• Support with recruitment of new team members and hiring of consultants, when required.
• Work with team members to ensure the Emergency Platform and Internal information pages are regularly updated.
• Support with the planning of DRC’s Emergency Capacity building initiatives
• Contribute to the development of the emergency workstream and the support to the delivery of Emergency Unit’s priorities and objectives.
• Other ad hoc tasks as required to support the goals of the emergency unit

About you

To be successful in this job we expect you to have strong administrative and coordination skills and be highly motivated to make a difference for the people affected by acute crisis.

More specifically, we also expect the following:

Required

• At least 3 years of full-time employment applying tasks related to the above.
• Masters level or equivalent degree in a relevant subject
• Experience within the international humanitarian sector.
• Experience in project and budget management.
• Strong IT skills including strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Excel/
• Ability to plan, co-ordinate and lead processes that include multiple stakeholders and interests.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

Desirable

• Previous experience working in DRC
• Previous experience working with Microsoft Dynamics

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core competencies:

Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.

Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.

Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.

Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.

Demonstrating integrity: You uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation to our values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

We offer

Contract length: 12 months – this is a maternity cover position.

Workplace: Copenhagen, Denmark

Start date: 19th February 2024

Salary and conditions will be in accordance with the agreement between DRC and and HK or AC (depending on education). If AC, the candidate is hired at “fuldmægtig” level. This is a national position for which local terms and conditions apply.

For questions regarding the vacancy please contact Caitlin Miller – caitlin.miller@drc.ngo.

Application process

All applicants must upload a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English. A****pplications sent by email will not be considered.

Closing date for applications: 7th January 2024

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website drc.ngo