Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peacebuilding. We welcome as a part of our staff people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to serving those in need. CRS’ processes and policies reflect our commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.
Technical Advisor II – Emergency Response and Recovery Surge Support
Location
Eastern Africa + 1 moreAll locations: Eastern Africa | Southern Africa
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4 days ago
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Mid Level
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Job Description
Technical Advisor II – Emergency Response and Recovery Surge Support
Catholic Relief Services | CRS
Role Description The Technical Advisor II – Emergency Response and Recovery Surge Support for East and Southern Africa (ESARO) is a field-oriented emergency response generalist who provides rapid deployment program quality, management, and leadership surge support to CRS country programs within ESARO during sudden-onset and protracted emergencies. The role is embedded in HRD’s Emergency Program Response Team (EPRT) and reports to the Regional Focal Point for Emergency Response for ESARO, contributing to high-quality emergency response and recovery programming in line with CRS program quality principles, donor requirements, and humanitarian best practices. - Provide rapid deployment surge support to ESARO country programs during humanitarian responses, delivering practical program quality and management accompaniment. - Work with the country programs to provide acting emergency program management/leadership roles and support set-up/management of emergency field offices, teams, and relief operations as requested during deployments. - Provide technical solutions to country teams (remote and onsite) for emergency program planning, start-up, implementation, and close-out, ensuring alignment with CRS program quality principles/standards, donor guidelines, and good practices. - Lead high-quality project design incorporating project management standards and MEAL methods, appropriate to scope, context and technical requirements of projects. - Contribute to the development and implementation of regional/CP strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in Emergency Response and Recovery that effectively engage partners, donors and governments. - Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, safe and dignified programming, and disaster risk reduction. - Contribute to regional knowledge sharing by documenting lessons learned, promising practices, and response innovations from deployments and sharing with the RFP and relevant HRD and regional stakeholders. - Support country programs to apply program design and implementation standards, partnership principles, and MEAL approaches to ensure high-quality implementation. - Contribute to capacity strengthening initiatives in Emergency Response and Recovery programming for staff and partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curricula, conducting trainings and workshops, and mentoring and coaching to CP staff. - Contribute to knowledge management and learning through collecting and analyzing program data, evaluating strategic projects, assisting with measuring program impact, capturing and sharing lessons learned and best practices, and research and internal reports. - Represent CRS and partners at cluster, donor and coordination meetings in the field as requested. Qualifications - Experience in emergency response and recovery programming. - Strong leadership and management skills. - Ability to work in high-pressure environments. - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Requirements - Ability to legally work where the position is to be performed. - Clearance of pre-employment medical examination for positions requiring residence or frequent travel outside a home country. - Preference for candidates who are citizens/permanent residents of the countries where CRS has offices. Benefits - Competitive salary and benefits package. - Opportunities for professional development and training. - Supportive work environment focused on safeguarding and ethical practices. Company Description Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. Catholic Relief Services works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. Catholic Relief Services’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peacebuilding. We welcome as a part of our staff people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to serving those in need.
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