Job Details:
Organisation: ACT Alliance - Switzerland
Deadline Fri, 22 Aug 2014
Job type: Permanent
Location:
Switzerland
Global Humanitarian Coordinator – ACT Alliance, Geneva
About ACT Alliance
ACT Alliance is a coalition of more than 140 churches and affiliated organisations working together in over 140 countries to create positive and sustainable change in the lives of poor and marginalised people regardless of their religion, politics, gender, sexual orientation, race or nationality. ACT Alliance is supported by 25,000 staff from member organisations and mobilises about $1.5 billion for its work each year in three targeted areas: humanitarian aid; development; and advocacy. ACT Alliance is deeply rooted in the communities it serves. It has earned the trust and respect of local people long before large international interventions scale up, and remains steadfast in its grassroots commitments for many years after world attention has shifted elsewhere. For more details about the general work of ACT, please refer http://www.actalliance.org/
Background
ACT Alliance is looking for an experienced Global Humanitarian Coordinator to lead its international humanitarian work.
Major functions
The Global Humanitarian Coordinator leads the ACT Alliance work in emergency preparedness and response and advises ACT’s humanitarian policy agenda. This involves regular interaction with humanitarian directors of members, representing ACT on relevant policy issues and managing an effective emergency preparedness and response.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Ensures alliance-wide emergency preparedness
• Coordinates the ACT Alliance response to an emergency
• Represents ACT Alliance in global humanitarian coordination
• Fundraises for joint member-led initiatives, including the emergency appeals
• Ensures adequate policies, tools and guidelines in support of effective emergency responses
• Advises ACT’s humanitarian policy and advocacy agenda
• Leads the ACT secretariat international humanitarian team
• Supports the ACT Alliance working bodies relevant to humanitarian response, including Rapid Support Team, humanitarian policy and practice advisory bodies
• Supports the General Secretary, the Director and Head of Programmes in external representational roles
Competences
Committed:
• Committed to the values of the ACT Alliance and takes pride in delivering on agreed priorities according to the highest standards individually and as part of a global team
Personal Effectiveness:
• Proactively finds innovative and creative solutions, is efficient and reliable, adapts to change and uncertainty, is decisive and acts with integrity
Working with others:
• Builds effective internal and external relationships, involves others when solving problems and treats others with consideration and respect in an alliance where faith is a key ingredient of people’s lives
Passionate:
• Passion for building and developing core skills for the role and contributes knowledge outside of immediate own role
People leadership:
• Effectively motivates, influences and develops others, drives high performance, inspires people to follow them and acts as a role model
Working relationships:
• Engages with ACT members and ACT forums engaged in emergency preparedness and response
• Liaises with the external stakeholders (UN agencies, governmental representations, INGO networks and INGO peers), particularly those based in Geneva
• Advises the Regional Representatives and other staff on emergencies
Skills and experience
• A minimum of seven to ten years of relevant work experience including first-hand field based emergency response experience in a management role
• Highly developed interpersonal and communications skills including influencing, negotiating and coaching
• In-depth knowledge of humanitarian principles and standards; good knowledge on major global actors as well as humanitarian coordination mechanisms
• Ability to analyse rapidly changing operational contexts and policy developments and to see opportunities emerging
• Ability to work flexibly in a networked working environment
• Good understanding of key issues for local and national responders and appreciation for the added value of churches and other faith based actors in humanitarian response
• Relevant academic degree with excellent communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of English language, working knowledge of French or Spanish an asset
Location
• This is an international Geneva based position, with occasional travel abroad.
• Salary range and compensation: competitive in accordance with demonstrated experiences and skills. Compensation includes pension, children education allowance and annual leave
• Deadline for applications: 22 August 2014.
• Contact: For applications and specific questions, please mail recruitment@actalliance.org
• We are unfortunately not able to answer telephone calls
Global Humanitarian Coordinator
Job posted by: ACT Alliance - Switzerland - Tue, 5 Aug 2014Job Details:
Organisation: ACT Alliance - Switzerland
Deadline Fri, 22 Aug 2014
Job type: Permanent
Location: Switzerland
Global Humanitarian Coordinator – ACT Alliance, Geneva
About ACT Alliance
ACT Alliance is a coalition of more than 140 churches and affiliated organisations working together in over 140 countries to create positive and sustainable change in the lives of poor and marginalised people regardless of their religion, politics, gender, sexual orientation, race or nationality. ACT Alliance is supported by 25,000 staff from member organisations and mobilises about $1.5 billion for its work each year in three targeted areas: humanitarian aid; development; and advocacy. ACT Alliance is deeply rooted in the communities it serves. It has earned the trust and respect of local people long before large international interventions scale up, and remains steadfast in its grassroots commitments for many years after world attention has shifted elsewhere. For more details about the general work of ACT, please refer http://www.actalliance.org/
Background
ACT Alliance is looking for an experienced Global Humanitarian Coordinator to lead its international humanitarian work.
Major functions
The Global Humanitarian Coordinator leads the ACT Alliance work in emergency preparedness and response and advises ACT’s humanitarian policy agenda. This involves regular interaction with humanitarian directors of members, representing ACT on relevant policy issues and managing an effective emergency preparedness and response.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Ensures alliance-wide emergency preparedness
• Coordinates the ACT Alliance response to an emergency
• Represents ACT Alliance in global humanitarian coordination
• Fundraises for joint member-led initiatives, including the emergency appeals
• Ensures adequate policies, tools and guidelines in support of effective emergency responses
• Advises ACT’s humanitarian policy and advocacy agenda
• Leads the ACT secretariat international humanitarian team
• Supports the ACT Alliance working bodies relevant to humanitarian response, including Rapid Support Team, humanitarian policy and practice advisory bodies
• Supports the General Secretary, the Director and Head of Programmes in external representational roles
Competences
Committed:
• Committed to the values of the ACT Alliance and takes pride in delivering on agreed priorities according to the highest standards individually and as part of a global team
Personal Effectiveness:
• Proactively finds innovative and creative solutions, is efficient and reliable, adapts to change and uncertainty, is decisive and acts with integrity
Working with others:
• Builds effective internal and external relationships, involves others when solving problems and treats others with consideration and respect in an alliance where faith is a key ingredient of people’s lives
Passionate:
• Passion for building and developing core skills for the role and contributes knowledge outside of immediate own role
People leadership:
• Effectively motivates, influences and develops others, drives high performance, inspires people to follow them and acts as a role model
Working relationships:
• Engages with ACT members and ACT forums engaged in emergency preparedness and response
• Liaises with the external stakeholders (UN agencies, governmental representations, INGO networks and INGO peers), particularly those based in Geneva
• Advises the Regional Representatives and other staff on emergencies
Skills and experience
• A minimum of seven to ten years of relevant work experience including first-hand field based emergency response experience in a management role
• Highly developed interpersonal and communications skills including influencing, negotiating and coaching
• In-depth knowledge of humanitarian principles and standards; good knowledge on major global actors as well as humanitarian coordination mechanisms
• Ability to analyse rapidly changing operational contexts and policy developments and to see opportunities emerging
• Ability to work flexibly in a networked working environment
• Good understanding of key issues for local and national responders and appreciation for the added value of churches and other faith based actors in humanitarian response
• Relevant academic degree with excellent communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of English language, working knowledge of French or Spanish an asset
Location
• This is an international Geneva based position, with occasional travel abroad.
• Salary range and compensation: competitive in accordance with demonstrated experiences and skills. Compensation includes pension, children education allowance and annual leave
• Deadline for applications: 22 August 2014.
• Contact: For applications and specific questions, please mail recruitment@actalliance.org
• We are unfortunately not able to answer telephone calls