United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Humanitarian Support Manager
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 08 Oct 2013
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Humanitarian Support Manager to be based in the Humanitarian Support Team. This is an exciting and varied role, with no 2 days being the same. You will be dealing with a full range of people from beneficiaries in the field through to high level donor and UN representation.
Your major focus will be to support Tearfund’s response to new disaster situations as appropriate. This could include providing advice and accompaniment to a Tearfund Geographic Team, secondment into a relevant team in Teddington or supporting Country Directors/Representatives and partners in country. The role will include contributing to disaster strategy formulation and needs analysis, assessing project proposals from partners, design and negotiation for institutional funding proposals, and taking a substantive lead on organisational evaluations and learning reviews.
The role also provides senior support to champion Disaster Management good practice within the organisation, including;
Contributing to Tearfund’s learning culture, and ensuring as far as possible all humanitarian learning is disseminated and re-applied
Providing advisory capacity for Tearfund corporately on humanitarian good practise and key sectors where Tearfund has or desires expertise (e.g. conflict, cash based programming).
Representing Tearfund to external networks and ensuring Tearfund keeps abreast of latest trends and developments
Assist geographical teams in their capacity assessment of their partners and teams, and assist in the creation of plans and strategies to improve the humanitarian response capacity
You will be educated to degree-level or equivalent and have proven and substantive field-based experience in a disaster management setting. You will be organised and a self starter, with a good understanding of the project cycle and the main good practice codes and standards in disaster management. You will have an ability to work unsupervised, have a good grasp of working in insecure settings, plus able to respond to tight pressurised deadlines. Finally, the successful applicant will be highly relational, able to influence others and flexible to change and demanding circumstances.
How to apply:
For further details or to apply please visit: http://jobs.tearfund.org/tearfund/jobs/
