Regional Emergency Coordinator

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• Support all countries with emergency preparedness, including maintaining an Early Warning regional overview of country risk, and ensuring all Country Offices have up-to-date Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans (EPRP)
• Provide Emergency Capacity Building training to field staff as requested by Country Offices
• Support Country Offices to develop and undertake ad-hoc Rapid Needs Assessments and emergency assessments where required following shocks / crises
• Support Country Offices in the design, planning and resource mobilisation for emergency activities, following a shock, and in protracted emergency contexts, including via deployments to affected countries.
• Support existing/new operations in emergency response – including assist in staff recruitment, staff training, setting up systems, and planning and starting activities; and business development / proposal writing. Provide remote technical review and input to Emergency Programme proposal design and development.
• Conduct humanitarian response capacity assessments in countries/areas as required;
• Provide trouble-shooting in existing operations facing bottlenecks in implementation;
• Provide input and advice to strategies to transition emergency operations to Recovery, Resilience and Durable Solutions approaches;

• Ensure countries use standardised DRC Emergency and Emergency MEAL tools; provide updated tools, technical guidance and training materials to Country Offices as requested and ensure coherence of Emergency MEAL approaches across the Regions.
• In close coordination with RO and CO technical staff, ensure emergency response activities are relevant to the needs and priorities of affected populations and meet relevant programme quality standards across all sectors.
• Ensure all emergency response actions are adhering to standards and best practices including HAP/CHS standards, relevant Minimum Standards and SPHERE etc.
• Ensure that DRC mandate, policies and values in programming are upheld, and DRC’s accountability obligations are delegated and carried out in accordance with standard regulations and operational procedures e.g. Code of Conduct, DRC Programme Handbook, DRC Operations Handbook

• Lead and coordinate regionally-led multi-country emergency responses as/where needed in the Region;
• Provide RO and CO Senior Management Teams with updated information on ongoing/emerging humanitarian crises and needs within the MERO & AERO region;
• Participate as relevant in coordination mechanisms throughout the region and represent DRC as requested, including building relationships with other regional Emergency Coordinators (or equivalent) in NGOs, CSOs, donor agencies, UN etc.;
• Identification and prioritization (continuous) of geographical areas for assessment and response, both new and existing;
• In close coordination and collaboration with the Regional Safety Coordinator, assess access to new areas, or areas with limited/no access, as needed;
• In close coordination and collaboration with the Regional Head of Support Services provide support and training with respect to the implementation of emergency derogations, as per the Operations Handbook
• Support link between CO and RO teams and HQ technical advisors to facilitate technical support and consistency in donor relations/fundraising efforts
• Support link between CO and RO teams and HQ technical advisors to facilitate technical support with regards to developing and strengthening hard to reach programming integrated into emergency responses.

• At least five years of INGO emergency response experience in insecure environments, including at least two years of management experience;
• Essential experience in RRM implementation/coordination/emergency response planning in similar contexts
• Relevant technical expertise/experience in some sectors of humanitarian programming such as WASH, Food Security, CCCM, shelter/NFI, Protection, including cash as a modality  etc.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and management and leadership skills;
• Proven commitment to accountable practices and knowledge of quality assurance systems in an emergency response;
• Hands on experience in managing staff in insecure locations and strong human resource management skills in general. Solid experience in staff management in a cross-cultural environment required;
• Good communicator and proven diplomacy with all types of stakeholders;
• Experience of managing budgets and multiple donor contracts, particularly with OFDA, ECHO, SIDA and UN agencies;
• Fluent and articulate in spoken and written English.
• Ability to work independently, but also coordinate effectively as part of a team;
• Strong computer skills (MS Word, Excel, Outlook and Power Point); and
• Ability and willingness to work and live in diverse, challenging and potentially unstable environments.

• Previous experience the MERO & AERO region or similar context with conflict/access analysis ability; and
• Previous experience in rapid-onset emergencies, and of working in protracted emergency contexts;
• Strong working knowledge of access, negotiations and/or experience in implementing programming in hard to reach areas/areas with high access constraints

• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Fluency or strong working knowledge of Arabic, Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish and/or Kurdish desirable

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