Emergency Programme Manager

DRC has been operating in Ukraine since 2014, currently DRC employs over 700 staff in Ukraine and will continue significant scale-up in 2024 to implement emergency response in the Protection, Livelihoods, Shelter/NFIs and Humanitarian Disarmament and Peacebuilding (humanitarian mine action) sectors, using direct interventions, support to duty bearers and civil society organizations (CSOs), and partnerships with CSOs. DRC will continue and adapt its durable solutions portfolio to the evolving context.

DRC is currently looking for a Emergency Programme Manager to join our team in Kharkiv. This position, open to national and international candidates.

Develop and manage DRC East mobile emergency response team, provide vision, leadership and direction to DRC humanitarian team

Manage provision of direct humanitarian assistance and strengthening of partners, for DRC response in Hard-to-Reach areas in the East of Ukraine

Represent DRC in relevant humanitarian coordination for a in the East, engaging with UN, INGO and LNGOs counterparts and proactively seeking to shape agendas in line with DRC and humanitarian priorities. In addition representation of the programme to partners and authorities will boost DRC’s profile and portfolio.

Your main responsibilities will be:

Management of DRC humanitarian portfolio

• Oversee programme quality of current and proposed projects
• Ensure compliance of current & proposed projects within scope of DRC programme department
• Ensure positions are staffed and projects are on track
• Develop clear lines of communication between project staff and partners
• Develop tools and processes to capture, share and incorporate lessons learned and best practices to inform and enhance quality of programming
• Strategy and funding development and resource mobilisation
• Lead and coordinate emergency assessments for DRC
• Update and maintain a DRC narrative based on the evolving context
• Update global humanitarian proposals with integrated contingency plans
• Advocacy, coordination and representation
• Represent DRC to relevant national authorities

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