Humanitarian Programmes Officer (6 month contract)

Salary: €45,108 based Dublin or elsewhere in ROI or UK

The post holder will be a core part of Christian Aid Ireland (CAI)’s humanitarian team and will support the Humanitarian Programme Manager to deliver and grow CAI’s humanitarian portfolio, with a particular focus on securing and managing Irish Aid and ECHO funding. The postholder will provide support to all aspects of CAI’s humanitarian programme, from proposal development to supporting implementation, monitoring, reporting, research and evaluation. The post holder will be assigned specific projects and programmes for which they will have responsibility and will be expected to play a leading role in their successful delivery in line with contractual requirements and best practice.

The postholder will also provide support on emergency preparedness, response, resilience, conflict-sensitive programming, climate change adaptation, accountability, gender and inclusion, and other technical areas as required and will provide programme, administrative and financial support to humanitarian projects and programmes as necessary.

The postholder will liaise regularly with country programmes implementing CAI humanitarian projects and programmes for close monitoring and support. The postholder will be expected to travel to country programmes to monitor projects, support proposal development and provide technical support as required, and will be required to respond to surge needs during the early stages of emergency responses based on need.

Essential:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in related field.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in international development and/or humanitarian work, preferably including overseas experience.
• Extensive knowledge of and experience in working with institutional donors, including Irish Aid and ECHO, preferably including relationship building at field and/or HQ level.
• Proven understanding of project cycle management, results-based management and frameworks and monitoring, evaluation and learning methodologies.
• Demonstrated excellent proposal and report writing skills.
• High level of numeracy and understanding of financial controls and procedures, and experience of budgets/financial management.
• Ability to build relationships, including cross cultural relationships.
• Able to maintain confidentiality, to use discretion and show good judgement.
• High level of administrative competence, including the ability to convene and manage effective meetings.
• Experience of working in a high pressured and changeable working environment and working to tight deadlines with multiple and complex priorities. Demonstrable adaptability and creativity.
• High level of computer literacy.
• Knowledge of humanitarian principles and international standards including SPHERE, the Red Cross Code of Conduct for NGO’s working in emergencies, Core Humanitarian Standards.

Desirable:

• Professional experience living and working in a disaster affected country.
• Knowledge of global development issues, including policy and advocacy topics and familiarity with emergency problems relevant to country or region.
• Familiarity with partnership working and the role of civil society / faith-based organisations in humanitarian work and experience of promoting localisation and locally-led development.
• Experience of peacebuilding in humanitarian programming and of implementing a Triple Nexus (humanitarian-development-peacebuilding) approach.
• Technical experience or qualification in a relevant humanitarian discipline (e.g., Food Security, Shelter, WaSH, cash programming, etc.).
• Experience of climate change adaptation, resilience programming, disaster risk reduction, anticipatory action.
• Experience in capacity building of country programme and partner organisation staff.
• Ability to work through French/ Spanish/ Arabic or other language of the countries where we work.