DRC Regional Office in Nairobi Regional Emergency Advisor Job Vacancy

The DRC Regional Office in Nairobi is seeking a qualified candidate for the following position:

Regional Emergency Advisor

The overall responsibility of the Regional Emergency Advisor (REA) is, on the one hand, to provide regional oversight; strategic and operational leadership; support and quality insurance of DRC Integrated Emergency Response (IER) Programme and, on the other hand, direct operational support on a need and request basis to existing or new emergency operations within the region.

When seconded to a specific programme/task, the REA represents the Regional Office, but reports to the individual Country Director.

Requirements:

Masters’ degree with at least 5 years management experience in humanitarian assistance programmes at senior level, preferably in complex humanitarian environments.
Strong project management experience, including proposal writing, M&E frameworks, quality assurance systems, budget management and humanitarian accountability
Good communication skills and ability to forge working relationships at all levels.
Extensive programming experience, particularly in emergency response and oversight of emergency operations, including experience in set-up of new operations.
Experience in conducting needs assessments for new operations including drafting of emergency proposals.
Work experience in insecure environments or similar complex displacement situations.Application process

For a complete job description with full description of requirements and application procedure, please visit http://www.drc.dk/ under Vacancies/Current vacancies/Regional Emergency Advisor-Horn of Africa.

Please note that we will only receive applications sent via the online application system at http://www.drc.dk/.

The closing date for receiving applications is 30 November, 2011.

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