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Contract – 18 month fixed term
Salary – Circa £43,000
Location – Home working – overseas travel up to 3 months at a time.
Are you skilled and experienced in the area of Programme Management in international humanitarian contexts?
The British Red Cross is now seeking to recruit a Programme Management specialist to join our Global Surge Team and provide immediate technical capacity to field operations.
This role increases our capacity to provide assistance at short notice in the area of Programme Management to Red Cross Red Crescent Movement activities, during any stage of the Disaster Management Cycle. This is done through a combination of operational deployments and capacity building activities.
What you’ll be doing…
– Provide strategic direction and manage and/or support initial assessment of response and recovery options
– Manage and/or support the establishment of BRC programme infrastructure including office and personnel accommodation, developing arrangements in regard to BRC integration with IFRC, the establishment of appropriate banking facilities and initial in-country systems and procedures including the identification of human resources requirements
– As required, deploy as part of a response team
– Function as budget holder for specific projects
– Participate, and where appropriate lead, in relevant internal and external co-ordination, ensuring strong sharing of information and development of consistent and/or complementary programme approaches
– Facilitate or support the delivery of BRC, ICRC, or IFRC capacity building activities and contribute to the revision or development of new training curricula. Where required, provide mentoring support to other BRC delegates and staff.
This is a home based role which will require overseas travel for up to 3 months at a time. However, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there may be a requirement to undertake ‘remote deployments’.
Please refer to the Role Profile for more information regarding role requirements and recruitment.
What you’ll bring to the role…
You will be prepared to deploy at short notice into countries experiencing natural disasters and other crisis events. Strong technical skills, an ability to operate with limited resources and a willingness to work in a complex multi-cultural environment with a variety of stakeholders are essential.
You will have proven experience in planning, management, implementation and monitoring of multi-faceted projects or programmes.
You will have strong analytical skills in multi-sectoral assessments, response option analysis and project design. You will demonstrate strong skills in diplomacy, negotiation, influencing and advocacy.
Note: You must have the automatic right to work in the UK to be eligible for this position. Evidence of your right to work in the UK will be gathered during the recruitment process.
About the team
The Global Surge Team is part of the Emergencies Team in the International Directorate of the British Red Cross, made up on highly trained professionals ready to be deployed anywhere in the world at short notice. The Global Surge team provides surge capacity to the whole of the RCRC Movement. This surge capacity is utilised throughout the whole Disaster Management Cycle (Disaster Risk Reduction, Disaster Preparedness, Emergency Response and Emergency Recovery). We support when and where there is a need to provide immediate capacity both to the Movement field operations and to BRC’s programmes at short notice and on deployments of up to three months.
As a member of the International Directorate you will be part of a directorate responsible for BRC’s international humanitarian response and disaster management, support to resilience programmes and organisational development of our partner Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies around the world. The work of the International Directorate also includes humanitarian policy and advocacy activities and upholding and promoting International Humanitarian Law. British Red Cross’ international work is carried out in coordination and partnership with the International Red Cross & Red Crescent Movement.
Closing date for applications is 23:59 (UK time) on Monday 18th April.
Interviews will take place week commencing 25th April.
