Global Humanitarian Team Registers
Register Objective:
To assist countries to respond to resourcing requests for Humanitarian Professionals within 3 working days, by creating and maintaining an appropriate pool of suitable candidates.
What are the Global Humanitarian Team Registers?
The registers are databases of candidates in seven technical areas:-
- Public Health Engineers
- Public Health Promoters
- Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods Specialists
- Programme Managers
- Human Resources Specialists
- Finance Specialists
- Logistics
Each register member has been interviewed and reference checked by their respective Technical team and has agreed that should a suitable short-term deployment arise, they will work for OGB on a fixed term basis at short notice.
How do we use the registers to resource emergencies?
3 steps..
Step 1: The GHT receives a request from the regions for a Humanitarian Professional, which it will aim to meet within 3 working days.
Step 2: Our Humanitarian Support Personnel (HSPs) are our primary emergency resource and our first point of call for resourcing emergencies. For more information on HSPs visit: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/work_with_us/hsp/index.html
Step 3: Should our HSPs be unavailable, the GHT use their registers to respond to the request. We use the register database to cross check criteria, such as availability, languages and other skills held by these candidates to select the correct candidate for each role.
How do we resource the registers?
- Previous Oxfam staff: Requests for support for the first 6 months of an emergency usually consider previous Oxfam experience and knowledge of ways of working essential. These people will have worked for us on short term assignments in the past, may be currently working for us now or may be people that have been working for OGB in another capacity and wish to join our registers.
- Professionals without Oxfam experience: Each register holds a reasonable number of candidates that meet our minimum skills and criteria but who do not yet have OGB experience. These people may be used for backfilling posts to allow others staff to be released or where previous Oxfam experience is not essential.
Keeping in touch with our register candidates:
The aim is to maintain a level of regular and individual contact with our register candidates. We aim to communicate with candidates on a regular basis to allow us to know about their availability and to send them details of current vacancies.