Emergency Field Coordinator – DRC – based in Goma At First International Emergency

Fixed-term contract: 12 months, starting from 02/17/2025

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With 40 years of experience, Première Urgence Internationale:

• Helps nearly 6 million beneficiaries
• With a budget of more than € 100 million per year
• Spread across 22 countries, on 5 continents

Thanks to the involvement and commitment of:

• More than 2000 national collaborators
• Around 200 expatriates of 45 different nationalities
• And 90 employees at headquarters

PUI works in 10 sectors of intervention and is distinguished by the implementation of an integrated approach in its response. This method aims to identify and understand all the needs of people affected by a crisis. Our teams mobilize to provide a comprehensive response to all the basic needs of populations affected by humanitarian crises in an emergency until they can regain autonomy and dignity.

To learn more about our history , our values , our areas of intervention.

Focus on our DRC activities

Our mission in the DRC has existed since 2001. PUI is developing its integrated approach with primary health and malnutrition control projects. PUI is involved in Ituri with health and nutrition projects, and in North Kivu through an integrated emergency health and nutrition approach supplemented by food security activities.

And what about the Emergency Field Coordinator in all this?

As a Field Coordinator, you will be responsible for the proper functioning of the base and the proper implementation of the programs developed on this base. To this end, your responsibilities will be as follows:

• Security: You will be responsible for security on the base
• Programs: You will coordinate teams and ensure the proper implementation of programs on the base, under the supervision of your direct line manager.
• Human Resources: You will supervise all base teams, national and international staff.
• Logistical, administrative and financial monitoring: You will supervise the logistical, administrative and financial aspects on the basis for the implementation of the programs, and you will ensure compliance with the related procedures, with the functional support of the Logistics Coordinator, and the Administrative and Financial Coordinator of the mission.
• Representation: You will represent the association with partners, authorities and various local stakeholders involved in the base’s intervention zone.
• Coordination: You will centralize and disseminate information from/to the base and consolidate internal and external reporting of activities implemented in the intervention zone before transmitting it to your direct hierarchical manager.
• Evaluation/Strategy: You will participate in the development of the strategy and propose new interventions based on the needs identified in the intervention area.

The challenges that await you

The major challenges of the Emergency Field Coordinator position are as follows: 1) the review and harmonization of the PUI RRM strategy in Health/Nutrition to adapt it to the current context of the DRC (temporality of interventions, entry and exit criteria, etc.); 2) Optimize the responsiveness of the emergency team by constituting a complete mobile team that can deploy quickly and autonomously (program staff and support staff) by positioning itself on humanitarian alerts in PU intervention areas; 3) Monitor, analyze humanitarian alerts across three provinces in eastern DRC (North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri) and propose an intervention strategy in line with the PUI country strategy and the donor strategy; 4) Plan and conduct Multisectoral Rapid Assessments (MRA) and size the rapid intervention according to the needs identified (programmatic, logistical, administrative and financial planning); 5) Participate in the coordination meetings of the rapid response mechanism in eastern DRC to maintain PUI as an emergency actor in Health/Nutrition

What You’ll Need to Succeed

Training : You can demonstrate a higher education qualification (min. Master 2 or equivalent) in a field related to humanitarian action: project management, technical training related to one of our sectors of intervention, human resources management, financial management, etc.

Experience: You have at least one year of field experience in an international NGO, in project coordination. Experience in expatriate team management, project management, and security management is highly appreciated. Have you already held the position of Field Coordinator or equivalent in an international NGO? This will also be valued. Have you already worked with Première Urgence Internationale? This will be an undeniable asset!

Skills : You are proficient in humanitarian project management and team management, you have a good knowledge of the main donors. You have excellent writing skills.

Required qualities: You demonstrate good interpersonal skills, ease of communication, both written and oral, and you have a taste for teamwork. You demonstrate leadership and decision-making skills, reliability and a sense of responsibility, rigor and organization, responsiveness and adaptability. You have excellent resistance to stress and an ability to work under pressure.

Languages : French holds no secrets for you? All the better, it’s essential for this position!

A word from the manager

“PUI DRC is recognized as a major player in the humanitarian response in the DRC. Present in the PUI since 2001, PUI enjoys good acceptance within the communities in which we work, which facilitates access. Emergency interventions are at the heart of humanitarian assistance in the DRC and PUI is recognized as an emergency actor, especially in health and nutrition. The mission’s strategy is to capitalize on this experience and strengthen its place in the humanitarian sphere in the DRC. If you have skills in emergency interventions, team management and logistical, administrative and financial sizing, your place is here. You will join a dynamic and professional team that has only one goal: to bring smiles to the thousands of vulnerable people in eastern DRC.”

PUI will offer you

• **Status:**Fixed-term contract executive
• Gross monthly salary: 2,650.00 – 2,970.00 EUR depending on your experience in international solidarity + 50€ per semester of seniority with PUI
• Insurance including medical and supplementary health coverage, 24-hour assistance, repatriation and pension provision
• Accommodation in a collective house
• Living expenses (“Per Diem”)
• Break scheme: 5 working days at 3 and 9 months of mission + break bonus
• Paid Leave Plan: 5 weeks of paid leave/year + return plane ticket home every 6 months

Our commitments

Première Urgence Internationale considers the diversity of nationalities, genders, beliefs, profiles and statuses within its Human Resources as a major asset for its humanitarian action, and therefore commits itself to strict compliance with the principle of non-discrimination throughout its recruitment process.

Première Urgence Internationale practices a zero tolerance policy towards exploitation, sexual abuse and mistreatment, in all its forms, of women, children and all other vulnerable people. It mobilizes all its staff in the promotion, dissemination and respect of the principles set out in its ethical charter.

Please note that Première Urgence Internationale will not request financial participation for administrative costs related to recruitment. Any information to this effect would be fraudulent, please disregard it.

Do you recognize yourself in this profile and do you adhere to our commitments? Do you feel ready to take up the challenge and join the great PUI family?