Humanitarian Officer

We have an exciting opening for a Humanitarian Officer to be based in Tearfund’s global Disaster Risk Management Team.

This role provides global technical support for the management of new and ongoing humanitarian responses (partner led and direct operations) across Tearfund, with a strong emphasis on coordination and start up. Working alongside the Humanitarian Specialist, the Officer plays a critical role in coordinating emergency appeals and funding applications, liaising with donors, other agencies and internally within Tearfund. Where required, this role may be seconded to work direclty alongside a country team.

The Humanitarian Officer also actively facilitates learning during emergencies, ensuring learning from previous responses is applied in a timely way.

During periods between responses your focus will be:

• assisting regional offices and country teams with contingency planning, preparedness and humanitarian capacity assessment
• ensuring learning around humanitarian response is effectively compiled, disseminated and re-applied across the organisation,
• representing Tearfund to external networks,
• supporting best practice commitments,
• supporting Tearfund’s global and regional emergency surge rosters

Are you educated to degree level or equivalent, with proven experience in emergency preparedness and response? Are you an organised person, with a good ability to plan, prioritise and organise multiple work tasks under tight timelines and in close cooperation with multiple stakeholders? Do you enjoy working in a fast paced, agile environment?

If your skills and experience match, then we’d love to hear from you!

This is a global role and can be based in any location where Tearfund has an office where the timezone is within +/- 3hrs of GMT. The role oversees a number of external activities which adhere to UK deadlines, therefore applicants must be able to work UK working hours (9am – 5pm).

Tearfund is a faith based organisation and applicants must share our statement of faith.

The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.