Humanitarian Lead - Latin America & Caribbean region

Humanitarian Lead - Latin America and Caribbean region Permanent. Full Time. Hybrid working (2 days per week in the office)

Localisation

Salary: 181,256,397 Colombian Pesos per year If we receive a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert before the scheduled closing date. Therefore, we encourage interested applicants to apply at their earliest convenience. Applicants must already have the right to work in Colombia, and CV's and application forms should be in ENGLISH ONLY. About us Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.

Expérience

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and recognise the value this brings in forming strong, creative and high performing teams. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, and from those with experience from outside of the voluntary sector. And no, you don’t have to be Christian to work here – we encourage people of all faiths and none to apply. We just ask that everyone lives out our values of dignity, equality, justice and love. We value a good work-life balance, so we’re open to part-time and flexible working. We also offer hybrid working for our office-based colleagues. About the role Reporting in to the Head of Impact, the Humanitarian Lead for the Latin America and Caribbean region will play a lead role in setting up new emergency programmes as well as managing existing emergency response programmes across Christian Aid programmes globally but with a primary focus on an agreed set of countries to maximise impact. In the Latin America and Caribbean region, Christian Aid operates in Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Haiti. The post-holder will will ensure Christian Aid’s people-centred humanitarian reform advocacy agenda is energetically communicated in relevant regional and country policy forums, so that the humanitarian sector regionally takes visible steps toward more people-centred and locally led humanitarian programming and aligns with organisational values and goals. Some of the key responsibilities of the role of Humanitarian Lead are: Manage and collaborate on new and existing humanitarian and emergency response programmes internally and externally to maximise impact. Manage staff and ensure they perform to a high standard, meeting their objectives with activities integrated with the Country Teams, aligning with organisational values and goals. Active engagement in Country Leadership Teams ensuring Christian Aid’s humanitarian mandate is integrated within the wider country strategies in line with “Standing Together”. Manage response strategies to ensure plans are in place, funding secured for humanitarian work with budget planning, monitoring and reporting in place ensuring the effective use of these funds and ensure they are high-impact initiatives to maximising impact. Deliver humanitarian programmes in a timely and accountable manner meeting the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), safeguarding, inclusion and other minimum standards, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and resilience work, and ensuring high quality and maximising impact. Manage an active engagement in humanitarian programme policy advocacy work at national and international level feeding into the broader Christian Aid advocacy agenda around ongoing and crisis specific issues aligning to organisational values and goals. Manage our partners and ensure MCC staff are confident in, committed to and inspired by Christian Aid’s humanitarian signature focus on anticipatory action, cash transfer programming and survivor-led response to maximise impact. Deliver technical expertise through collaboration from within and outside Christian Aid is effectively engaged ensuring high quality programming. Collaborate and coordinate humanitarian programming within the relevant national and regional mechanisms, UNOCHA, clusters, ACT sisters and well recognised within donor and Civil Society circles and take advantage of opportunities to work harmoniously on humanitarian together programmes. About you Who we are looking for: Essential: Fluency in both Spanish and English (written and spoken) is required. University graduate or equivalent qualification. Significant knowledge of humanitarian issues and best practice in humanitarian action. Significant experience leading both rapid response and chronic emergencies or managing programmes to build resilient communities. Significant multi-country humanitarian programme support experience. Detailed understanding of the CHS, SPHERE and other humanitarian standards. Developed ability to equip and encourage staff to take responsibility and promote an empowered working. Developed ability to contribute to and work successfully as part of management and cross-organisational teams, with excellent time management and the ability to work with challenging deadlines and to multi task. Highly self-motivated with personal resilience.

Highly developed communication skills in writing and oral, with a fluency in English. Developed ability to develop and maintain successful working relationships with a range of colleagues. Significant experience of emergency programme cycle management from needs assessment, through funding applications, management, review and evaluation. Desirable Developed skills in facilitation of learning and change processes. Management qualification. Experience of working with an NGO. Working knowledge of French is desirable, given the role's engagement with Haiti.

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Autres informations

At Christian Aid we strive to be an inclusive and diverse employer and recognise the value that this brings in helping to build strong, creative and high performing teams. We are actively encouraging racialised minorities, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people with caring responsibilities, people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, women, and older workers to apply. This is because these groups are under-represented within our teams, especially at senior level, and we recognise and value the contributions members of these groups make to strong, creative and high performing teams. We have a strong Christian ethos and we encourage applications from all faiths. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of and sympathy with Christian Aid’s faith identity. All successful candidates will require a DBS/police check appropriate to the role and location and a Counter Terrorism Sanction check as part of your clearance for commencing your role with us. We also participate in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme . In line with this Scheme, we will request information as part of the referencing process from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedure

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