Regional emergency coordinator for east and central Africa

Job summary

The Regional Emergency Coordinator (REC) provides critical coordination and support to CARE International’s emergency preparedness and response in East and Central Africa. She/he also supports country offices (CO on strengthening capacity for preparedness, emergency response, integration of emergency programming within CARE’s program approach, strengthening DRR, humanitarian policy, and other related priority areas. She/he also represents CARE externally at regional level in the humanitarian field with key forums, partners and donors, develops a contextual understanding of the region, and undertakes appropriate humanitarian policy and analysis. The REC represents all of CI, liaises with various CI offices and members, and should ensure consistency with CI global humanitarian approaches and standards.

Areas of responsibility

1. Represent the region internally on behalf of CEG and in crisis coordination meetings/calls and Emergency Response Working Group.
2. Support and advise country and regional offices on emergency preparedness planning (EPP).
3. Support country offices initiate responses to emergencies,
4. Rapidly deploy to the country office to directly support the start-up of the response in an appropriate role, such as leading assessment and/or start-up of an emergency response, or other roles as needed.
5. Promote and guide quality in emergency programmes throughout the region.
6. Represent CARE International in regional forums
7. Monitor and develop understanding of ongoing regional contexts and vulnerabilities
8. Support humanitarian policy advocacy and media relations efforts at the regional level

Required qualifications and experience

- Masters degree, or relevant combination of qualifications and experience, in a relevant field 
- 5-10 years experience in humanitarian preparedness, risk reduction, response, and poverty reduction
- Experience and knowledge of the region - Great lakes region and the Horn of Africa.
- Experience in programme design, management, monitoring and evaluation, including SPHERE standards, donor relations, security and protection considerations
- Excellent training, coaching and mentoring skills
- High level of writing and communication skills
- Willingness to spend high proportion of time travelling away from home (approx 60%) and be deployed with limited notice period.
- Language skills: English and French are required (Swahilli would be an advantage)

Required competencies

- Team building
- Managing relationships across units, country offices, and CARE International members
- Self awareness
- Interpersonal skills
- Stress tolerance
- Planning and organizing
- Proactive problem solving
- Operational decision-making
- Resilience, adaptability and ability to self-manage