Strategy

Oversee development & implementation of World Vision humanitarian response strategy and plans.

Humanitarian Operations

Oversee response operations across multiple locations, direct and with/through partners.  

Team Leadership

Recruit, retain and manage a unified and effective response team across multiple countries and sites.

External Engagement

Ensure the response is well resourced, coordinated and communicates effectively with humanitarian actors, governments, donors, media etc.

World Vision Partnership Relations

Ensure the response is well coordinated with stakeholders across the World Vision Partnership.

Risk Management

Ensure that security, legal, safeguarding, other key risks and resources are well managed with good stewardship across the response.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

Required Education, Training, License, Registration, and/or Certification

• University degree in humanitarian, development, international relations or relevant field. Master’s degree preferred.

Required Professional Experience

• A minimum of 15 years in leadership roles in the humanitarian and development sector, including in major INGOs.
• At least 10 years’ senior management experience in humanitarian responses within complex, fragile and conflict related contexts.
• Excellent communications and relationship management skills.
• Demonstrated understanding of humanitarian principles, standards and best practices.
• Experience in leading a multi-cultural team of professionals.
• Experience working in high pressure, rapid response environments with multiple risks.
• External engagement at senior level with governments and multilateral agencies.

Required Language(s)

• Effective in written and verbal communication in English. Other UN languages such as French, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, preferred.

Required travel and/or work environment accommodations

• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to _70_% of the time.
• Work hours are often in excess of normal working hours per day during difficult periods of the response.
• Responses are often mounted in insecure or natural disaster-prone contexts, which may disrupt normal work patterns and generate staff safety issues.
• Work and housing environments may at times be well below normal standards in terms of facilities, equipment, food availability and hygiene.

Preferred Experience, Knowledge and/or other Qualifications

• Experience in managing multi-sectoral emergency response
• Understanding of the international humanitarian law, and minimum standards particularly the systems, structures and key actors
• Understanding of the key accountabilities that must be maintained in a response (beneficiaries, donors, peers).
• Ability to lead strategic planning processes.
• Strong communication skills (oral and written) with ability to express ideas and concepts clearly and persuasively with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong team leadership skills.
• Emotional intelligence (self-awareness, managing emotions and those of others, remaining calm/composed, dealing with ambiguity and change).
• Ability to express ideas and concepts clearly and persuasively with senior internal and external stakeholders as well as staff.
• Ability to work in coordination with other humanitarian organizations.
• Ability to analyse and make timely decisions in challenging situations in the absence of specific guidance and/or full information.
• Ability to communicate and model to staff positive behaviours which help them remain resilient and effective in dynamic and high-pressure environments.
• Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) or equivalent relevant security training certificate.