Humanitarian Response Director

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As the Humanitarian Response Director, you will provide leadership to World Vision’s (WV’s) large-scale disaster response operations, strengthen its disaster management capacities, strategies and polices, and contribute to the effectiveness of the global humanitarian system through networking and collaboration with key stakeholders.

You will be a member of the Humanitarian Response Operations and Global Rapid Response Teams (GRRT), a group of disaster response specialists whose purpose is to provide high-quality humanitarian assistance and protection to people impacted by natural calamity, and conflict. In the event of a largescale disaster, you and other members of this team deploy to the affected country in order to provide leadership to World Vision’s disaster response operations. Deployments are often triggered within 24 to 72 hours of a disaster and usually last up to 3 months. GRRT members can be deployed up to a maximum of 6 months in a year.

During non-deployment periods, you will support World Vision’s disaster preparedness and mitigation activities through capacity building, leadership of thematic issues, strategic planning, provision of technical expertise, networking and collaboration with other humanitarian organisations, governments, academic institutions and the media. You will also supervise members of the GRRT when on deployment and will at times be called upon to provide strategic coaching to smaller scale disaster responses implemented by World Vision’s national offices.

Requirements include:

• University degree in social sciences, management or related field.
• At Least 15 years humanitarian and development programming experience.
• 5 years of senior management experience, preferably in international humanitarian assistance operations.
• Strong knowledge of the humanitarian sector including humanitarian principles, standards, sectors and key stakeholders.
• Proficient in English language (written and verbal).
• Requires the ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 50% of the time. In the case of large-scale disasters this may require deployment within 24-72 hours.