United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Senior Humanitarian Advisor

Organization: GOAL
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 10 Oct 2014

GOAL is an international humanitarian agency established in 1977 and currently operational in 15 countries world-wide. GOAL has an annual budget of approximately US $ 100 million and is supported by a range of donors including the Irish Government, UK Government, USAID and the European Union.

General Description of the Role

The primary function of the SHA is in a management role to provide surge strategic and operational capacity to crisis response programmes in new and pre-existing GOAL country programmes and to ensure appropriate preparedness strategies are in place at a global and country level to mitigate against the impact of humanitarian crises. As part of GOAL’s Humanitarian Department the SHA will act as a first responder.

Main Objectives of the Position:

To support the effective planning, design, management and monitoring of GOAL’s humanitarian programmes; specifically:

• Respond to chronic or sudden onset humanitarian crises; contribute to GOAL’s response as required on sectoral assessments, programme and budget development, programme implementation and external coordination.
• Travel to GOAL’s current and protracted humanitarian programmes in a learning and support function.
• Ensure that crisis response programme planning and implementation is in line with GOAL’s standards, ensuring donor compliance and accountability to beneficiaries, donors and other stakeholders.
• Gap fill for vacant humanitarian field managerial positions.
• Contribute towards the capacity building of response team and humanitarian country programme staff.
• Provide technical guidance on humanitarian programme approaches, undertaking as required research and development of internal policy and guidelines.
• Support relevant Country Programme and Desk Officers through reviewing and providing feedback on humanitarian programme proposals and reports (interim and final) prior to submission to donors.
• External coordination in the UK, including actively engaging with appropriate NGO and Humanitarian networks.
• Undertake from time to time certain other tasks relating to GOAL activities as requested, including support to broader initiatives within the GOAL’s Business Development Unit.

Personal specifications:

• Seven year’s overseas experience in implementing humanitarian programmes;
• Experience supporting proposal development and internal and external reporting;
• Experience engaging with Cluster coordination systems;
• Experience of Contingency Planning;
• Experience working with Complaints and Response Mechanism and in relation to Stakeholder Information;
• Experience of negotiation and working with local partners;
• Evidence of good interpersonal and communication skill;
• Budgetary and financial management skills;
• Proven ability to work as part of a team and under pressure; and
• Fluency in English and ideally in either French or Arabic.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. This is an unaccompanied position.

Candidates must be legally entitled to work in the UK if applying for a UK base.

Applications will be reviewed as they are received; interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

How to apply:

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