C3 2021Job Title: Emergency Director Reports to: Chief Executive OfficerLocation: Flexible within the ROI, France, GB and NI (ROI preferred) Terms:Full-time, permanent contract at executive level (GBF10); Dublin, IrelandSalary: Global Band 10 (€102,272 - €113,635) within ROI & France / (£90,000 - £100,000) GBPLEASE NOTE: The relevant Terms and Conditions will apply depending on agreed location within ROI / France / GB / NI Requirements: Willingness to be deployed to an emergency at short noticeWillingness and ability to travel to any of Concern existing or potential country programmes as deemed necessary About Concern: Established in 1968, Concern is an international, humanitarian, non-governmental organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and the elimination of extreme poverty in the world's poorest countries.
Concern's vision, mission and work are all defined by the goal of ending extreme poverty, whatever it takes.
As such, Concern strives for a world free from poverty, fear and oppression.
Our culture is values driven and we believe that our people are central to all that we do and are key to delivering on our ambition of reaching the furthest behind first.
We are committed to ensuring a workplace where everybody feels valued and is enabled to succeed in their work and to contribute to delivering on our mission.Role Purpose: The Emergency Director is responsible for promoting adherence to the organisation's commitment to the delivery of principled humanitarian responses, and for developing its capacity to respond efficiently and effectively to emergencies in new and existing countries of operation.
The Emergency Director is also responsible for ensuring that good practice is identified and adhered to in all aspects of security risk management, protection and safeguarding, and supply and logistics.
Responsibilities: Evolve and promote adherence to the organisation's commitment to the delivery of principled humanitarian responses in a manner consistent with good practice standards.Maintain a watching brief on emerging crises and ensure responses are established in a timely manner to crises in which we do not have a prior presence.Ensure a commitment to learning from our responses, including through the completion of regular evaluations of emergency responses.Develop and support emergency preparedness, mitigation, and response activities in existing country programmes through effective Disaster Risk Reduction programming and the development and implementation of plans to ensure preparedness for effective emergency responses.Ensure that Concern's security policy and guidance documents reflect good practice and that appropriate SMPs and SRM mechanisms are in place in all of our countries of operation.As appropriate, and directed by the CEO, lead organisation Crisis Management Teams in response to critical incidents in any of our countries of operation.
Ensure that all such crises are reviewed to identify lessons to be learned from the incidents' occurrence and management.
Ensure that critical incident management training is carried out on a regular basis.Work with the Director of Protection and Safeguarding to ensure that Concern is a safe organisation delivering safe programmes, including having a zero-tolerance approach to instances of abuse and having robust mechanisms and procedures in place in all of Concern's country programmes.With the Head of Emergency Operations, ensure that the Surge Team is fully staffed and deployed in an optimal way.
Review the effectiveness of other surge capacity mechanisms such as the Rapid Deployment Unit and consider ways to improve organisational surge capacity.Work with the International Supply and Logistics Manager to ensure the capacity and effective operation of the Supply and Logistics Unit and that our organisational supply and logistics policies and practice comply with donor and organisational requirements.Support the advocacy team to influence relevant policy agendas and represent Concern in relevant fora.Engage effectively as a member of the Senior Management Team by contributing to the development of the organisation's overall strategic direction and decision-making processes.Uphold and promote Concern's values, demonstrating leadership on workplace equality, diversity and inclusion, and role modelling a positive safeguarding ethos.Actively participate in any emergency response as and when required.
Role Holder Requirements:Essential: Significant proven and demonstrable experience of working in an overseas context, preferably with experience of both development and humanitarian contexts, or in contexts of protracted or complex crises.At least five years' experience at a senior management level in an overseas humanitarian context.
Desirable: Experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams.Proven ability to develop security risk management policies and good practice.Proven ability to design and deliver training courses in security risk management, humanitarian policies and practice, and other relevant areas of humanitarian programming.