Regional Humanitarian Preparedness and Response Coordinator

The Regional Humanitarian Preparedness and Response Coordinator supports disaster preparedness, readiness and response to natural, climate-related hazards and conflicts in the Asia Pacific region. The role coordinates humanitarian preparedness and response activities across 15 countries, supports capacity building, manages emergency data, and represents Plan International in regional humanitarian networks.

Responsibilities

• Support programmatic and data management of humanitarian action in APAC including quarterly hotspot analysis, managing humanitarian preparedness database and monthly humanitarian round up.
• Ensure timely update of Country Offices’ Ready to Respond (R2R) Minimum Preparedness Action implementation and progress.
• Manage the humanitarian dashboard of APAC.
• Coordinate the APAC Children in Crisis Fund (CiCF) including drafting donor reports.
• Deploy in initial or recovery phases to support Country Offices as technical advisor or Deputy Emergency Response Manager and provide technical support for humanitarian preparedness and readiness.
• Facilitate humanitarian related training such as Emergency Response Team (ERT) and CVA training.
• Support roll out of R2R approach to remaining Country Offices.
• Maintain excellent working relationships with internal and external stakeholders including humanitarian networks and clusters.
• Act as thematic lead for regional Accountability to Affected People (AAP) Working Group, CVA Working Group, and Regional Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) network.
• Prepare and update disaster/hazard calendar and hotspot analysis for Asia Pacific.
• Promote utilization of Emergency Response manual and humanitarian standards.
• Manage emergency response database and present data in infographics.
• Facilitate learning and sharing of humanitarian resources and experiences between countries.
• Support inclusion of disaster, conflict and environmental risks in Country Strategy documents.
• Support external engagement and coordination with humanitarian actors and donors.
• Mentor Country Office representatives in humanitarian network roles.
• Support documentation and circulation of lessons learned from disasters.
• Support surge capacity identification and coordination during emergencies.
• Support accountability, protection, gender and inclusion in emergency responses.
• Support preparation of Real Time Review for emergencies and facilitate coordination with supervisor.

Requirements

• Documented experience from disaster risk management work, including disaster preparedness, readiness and managing response programmes.
• Documented experience from at least 2 major disaster events, working in “disaster /high risk” environments.
• Documented experience as a trainer/facilitator on humanitarian issues especially on international Humanitarian standard and one of the technical sectors CPiE, EiE, CVA, SRHRiE or WASHiE and Gender in Emergencies.
• Ability to priorities and manage complex and varied workload, often to tight deadlines.
• Experience of strategy, i.e. analysing relevant factors from both the internal and external environments, identifying crucial issues that have to be addressed, setting objectives and developing plans of actions.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal in order to present arguments clearly and powerfully to a variety of audiences.
• Direct experience of working with children and young people and in understanding and responding to their needs and rights.
• Experience of working with institutional donors/fundraisers.
• Experience in utilisation of humanitarian standards i.e. Sphere, CHS, INEE MS on EiE, CPMS and other standards included in the Humanitarian Standard Partnership (HSP).
• Experience of promoting coordination and cooperation with other agencies through networking and alliance building.
• Energetic and motivated individual, with a proven track record of undertaking similar assignments successfully.
• Expert in one of the technical sectors such as CPiE or EiE or SRHRiE, WASHiE and familiar with cash voucher assistance (CVA) as modality in emergency situations.
• Familiar with the concept of gender in emergencies.
• Good interpersonal skills and able to work in a dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders at different level.
• Ability to think strategically, but also result oriented and get things done.
• Commitment to continuous learning and willingness to keep abreast of new developments in the field of humanitarian and resilience and it adherence to the humanitarian principles and standards.
• Able to work independently, but to function within a virtual team.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to establish and sustain good working relations with colleagues.
• Strong negotiation, facilitating, representation and influencing skills including familiar with Artificial Intelligence (AI) for humanitarian work.
• Culturally and socially sensitive, and able to work successfully with partners and sector professionals.

Skills

• Disaster Risk Management
• Disaster Preparedness
• Disaster Response
• Humanitarian Training Support
• Child Protection in Emergencies
• Education in Emergencies
• Cash and Voucher Assistance
• Sexual and Reproductive Health in Emergencies
• Water Sanitation and Hygiene in Emergencies
• Gender Equality in Emergencies
• Strategy Development
• Humanitarian Standards Utilization
• SPHERE standards
• Core Humanitarian Standards
• INEE Minimum Standards
• Child Protection Standards
• Humanitarian Standard Partnership
• Coordination and networking
• Donor Relations
• Emergency Data Management
• Negotiation Skills
• Facilitation Skills
• Representation Skills
• Influencing Skills
• Artificial Intelligence for Humanitarian Work

Languages

English