Are you a humanitarian worker who has experience in building local capacity for disaster and resilience responses? Have you worked with first responders such as the local church, and been involved in building their capacity? Do you have experience in coordinating and working in collaboration with other agencies in humanitarian responses? You might be the person Tearfund is looking for to fill this role.
Tearfund is currently recruiting for a highly experienced Humanitarian Response Coordinator who is able to join the team to build the effectiveness of Tearfund and partner staff in Humanitarian responses. The individual will bring a wealth of experience and learning from previous disaster response and resilience and be able to demonstrate a good understanding of environmental and economic priorities in both development and humanitarian contexts.Ensuring high quality coordination and management of livelihood, resilience, emergency response and peace building initiatives among Tearfund partners and with other like-minded partners. Support Programme fundraising efforts through partner programme management and accompaniment as well as ensuring Tearfund and donor compliance.
**Building effective humanitarian and resilience response capacity:**Your major focus will be working closely with the Uganda team to improve the humanitarian response capacity of Tearfund partner staff. This will involve capacity assessments, training, linking local partners to collaboration agencies and accompaniment to partners.
Deployment to support responses: The role will involve mobilising local Tearfund partners and churches during emergency periods, undertaking assessments, guiding and advising partners, helping to develop project design, support monitoring and reporting and developing preparedness and contingency plants.
Contribute to Learning: Facilitating learning and exchange for Emergence response partners, making valuable contributions to Tearfund’s learning culture, participating in evaluations, coordinating and facilitating learning review, ensuring learning on humanitarian good practice is disseminated and applied.
You will make representation on National Humanitarian and resilience forums, working groups and with external networks and humanitarian funding donors.
You will be:
- Educated degree level or equivalent and have proven and substantive field-based experience in disaster management or resilience related work
- A strong team player, able to influence and bring others along with you in critical settings.
- Accustomed to working unsupervised and responding to tight deadlines.
You will have:
- A thorough understanding of relevant good practice codes and standards.
- Strong creative capacity building and training skills.
- Previous experience of working with partners on disaster response and resilience work
- At least 5 years’ experience of livelihoods, Agribuisness, Resilience, emergency and/or cash approaches.
- Proven experience in humanitarian environments with successful examples of project implementation.
- Proven ability in disaster response management including: project cycle management, capacity building, training skills, planning, implementation and evaluation.
Please note: This is a fixed term contract of 2 Years based in Kampala, Uganda with a possibility of renewal. Applicants must possess the right to live and work in Uganda.
Tearfund is a faith based organisation and applicants must share our statement of faith.
The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding issues. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.