Technical Advisor II – Emergency Response and Recovery Surge Support, East and Southern Africa (ESARO)

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in international development, Disaster Response or a related field required.
  
• Minimum of eight years relevant international working experience in an advisory or management role with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO, with minimum of three years working for programming interventions in Emergency Response and Recovery program management.
  
• Previous experience providing technical assistance and developing successful proposals for external donor funding is required.
  
• Experience with program monitoring and evaluation, including applying data collection tools and methodologies, data analysis, and data presentation.
  
• Experience in business development, project design and proposal development in emergency response, including technical writing.
  

• Provide rapid deployment surge support to ESARO country programs during humanitarian responses, delivering practical program quality and management accompaniment.
  
• Work with the country programs to provide acting emergency program management/leadership roles and support set-up/management of emergency field offices, teams, and relief operations as requested during deployments.
  
• Provide technical solutions to country teams (remote and onsite) for emergency program planning, start-up, implementation, and close-out, ensuring alignment with CRS program quality principles/standards, donor guidelines, and good practices.
  
• Lead high-quality project design incorporating project management standards and MEAL methods, appropriate to scope, context and technical requirements of projects.
  
• Contribute to the development and implementation of regional/CP strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in Emergency Response and Recovery that effectively engage partners, donors and governments. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, safe and dignified programming, and disaster risk reduction.
  
• Contribute to regional knowledge sharing by documenting lessons learned, promising practices, and response innovations from deployments and sharing with the RFP and relevant HRD and regional stakeholders.
  
• Support country programs to apply program design and implementation standards, partnership principles, and MEAL approaches to ensure high-quality implementation.
  
• Contribute to capacity strengthening initiatives in Emergency Response and Recovery programming for staff and partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curricula, conducting trainings and workshops, and mentoring and coaching to CP staff. Capacity strengthening approaches may include formal and on-the-job training; development/streamlining of operational policies/systems; accompaniment of partners, etc. as appropriate.
  
• Contribute to knowledge management and learning through collecting and analyzing program data, evaluating strategic projects, assisting with measuring program impact, capturing and sharing lessons learned and best practices, and research and internal reports.
  
• Represent CRS and partners at cluster, donor and coordination meetings in the field as requested.