Crisis Response Coordinator – Yemen

  • Contract
  • Yemen
  • Posted 7 months ago

FHI 360

Place description

FHI 360’s West Africa Center East Regional Workplace (WAMERO) is looking for an skilled Disaster Response Coordinator for the Yemen Nation Workplace, based mostly in Aden, Yemen.
After years of steady battle, the humanitarian disaster in Yemen remains to be thought-about one of many worst on this planet. Widespread battle exacerbates current vulnerabilities as extreme financial decline, meals insecurity, and collapse of important providers proceed to take an unlimited toll on the inhabitants. Confronted with a deterioration of the well being system and ongoing hostilities, communities have been left with out important life- saving providers. The mixture of maximum vulnerability and low common immunity places Yemen at distinctive threat for communicable illness outbreak. A profound financial disaster threatens the federal government’s potential to maintain very important public providers. A number of home and world shocks are driving these contractions, together with recurrent pure occasions, the financial and meals safety repercussions of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, world inflation, vital funding gaps, and entry to providers challenges,
Operational in Yemen since 2018, FHI 360 is implementing an built-in humanitarian help program in well being, diet, WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) and Well being Coordination sectors.

FHI 360’s strategy to humanitarian response in Yemen focuses on emergency rehabilitation, WASH, and provision of coaching, provides, and tools, making certain continued high quality of operations and correct upkeep of the well being services to allow uninterrupted lifesaving well being and diet service provision. Complementing these interventions, FHI 360 is at the moment the co-lead of the Well being Cluster in IRG managed areas, working to reinforce the effectiveness of the humanitarian response throughout the well being sector in southern Yemen. FHI 360 has twin give attention to institutional and community-level engagement. With a workforce of about 50 employees, we assist 12 mounted well being services and surrounding communities, in addition to two cell well being groups throughout Aden and Mokha. Via each the development in entry to high quality well being providers, together with improved coordination of the general well being response in Aden Hub, FHI 360’s programmatic actions are designed to contribute to improved well-being of the inhabitants in Yemen.
The Disaster Response Coordinator leads the group’s humanitarian response actions in Yemen, offering management to make sure speedy, scalable and high-quality response. Serves because the lead senior consultant for humanitarian programming in Yemen. Major obligations are to steer and assist all challenge associated actions whereas making certain internationally accepted practices and humanitarian ideas are adopted. Liable for main the FHI 360 humanitarian workforce and performs a essential function in making certain the group’s emergency programming is attentive to the wants of conflict- and disaster-affected populations. Guarantee humanitarian actions are evidence- based mostly and cling to accepted requirements.

Obligation of Care Assertion: This obligation station has been designated as excessive threat or excessive threat and poses a heightened threat or direct risk to non-public security. Candidates ought to analysis this location and the related dangers earlier than submitting an software.

Accountabilities:

  • Liable for humanitarian response together with total accountability for packages, personnel, logistics, safety, exterior illustration, and transition planning.
  • Lead and mentor area employees together with technical leads, HR, logistics, grants and administration, finance, monitoring and analysis, and others in each Aden and Mokha to create a strong base for emergency programming. Guarantee present programming is attentive to wants and adaptable to shifts in context.
  • Determine rising alternatives and lead, supervise and coordinate area assessments in case of emergency or evolving wants and develop a response technique in collaboration with host nation authorities, the UN (United Nations) system, different humanitarian organizations and WAMERO in addition to the Disaster Response Crew (CRT).
  • Liable for high quality and consistency of packages by means of on-site and digital monitoring to make sure and improve program effectiveness and high quality.
  • Advocate with and/or advise peer businesses, native governments, donors and different stakeholders to affect responses to advertise supply of inclusive and high-quality humanitarian providers.
  • Liable for making certain compliance with FHI 360 and donor/consumer coverage, procedures, and practices all through this system; suggest nation or emergency particular coverage/procedures as wanted.
  • Coordinate between nation workplace and Headquarters (HQ) to troubleshoot any points; make suggestions for corrective actions
  • Present technical steerage within the improvement and dissemination of instruments, protocols, and interventions to answer humanitarian wants.
  • Conduct evaluation of program implementation to determine areas for enchancment and suggest acceptable technical technique and tips.
  • Present management and workforce constructing, with a specific give attention to morale and motivation of employees.

Utilized Information & Abilities:

  • Work expertise as a Response Coordinator (or related designation) in a humanitarian emergency required.
  • Yemen expertise strongly most well-liked.
  • Demonstrated potential to affect peer businesses, native authorities, and group leaders to work successfully in the direction of a standard and agreed upon outcome.
  • Demonstrated potential to use adaptive administration approaches, analyze outcomes and consider classes discovered to tell processes affecting a number of technical specialties to realize speedy, constant, and high-quality outcomes
  • Expertise growing and implementing tasks spanning a number of technical specialties.
  • Expertise implementing packages for the Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs (BHA) required.
  • Information and software of Core Humanitarian Requirements (CHS), Sphere requirements and Pink Cross/NGO Code of Conduct.
  • Sensitivity and confirmed expertise working with cultural range and understanding of the political, contextual, and moral points in assigned areas.
  • Efficient communication abilities, with the power to interact employees and purchasers in an empathetic and motivating method.
  • Should be capable of learn, write, and communicate proficient English; Arabic useful.

Drawback Fixing & Affect:

  • Works on issues of numerous scope that require evaluation or interpretation of quite a few elements.
  • Workout routines judgment inside choosing strategies and strategies to evaluate and implement acceptable motion.
  • Builds productive working relationships with inside and exterior employees.
  • Determination could have an effect on a piece unit or space inside a division.

Supervision Given/Obtained:

  • Units objectives and budgets for tasks and leads in attaining challenge objectives
  • Leads coordination of sources for ongoing tasks throughout practical areas and addresses/resolves challenge points
  • Might present steerage to different personnel.
  • Sometimes experiences to an Affiliate Director or Director.

Schooling:

  • Bachelor’s Diploma or its Worldwide Equal in Economics, Schooling, Atmosphere, Well being, Human Growth, Info Science, Worldwide Growth, Social Sciences or Associated Subject.
  • Grasp or different superior diploma most well-liked.
  • Certification in challenge administration most well-liked.

Expertise:

  • Sometimes requires 5-8 years in a administration function, main complicated on-site emergency response tasks and/or packages.
  • Expertise establishing startup operations/tasks in new nations most well-liked.
  • Demonstrated and verified sensitivity to cultural range and understanding of the political, contextual, and moral points in assigned areas.
  • Efficient communication abilities
  • Prior work expertise in a non-governmental group (NGO), authorities company, or personal firm of progressive program administration expertise in humanitarian help or associated business expertise in a related technical space.

Journey Necessities:

  • Better than 25% of contract, settlement, or buy order.”

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