Emergency Response Roster - Response Director

World Vision; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A global humanitarian organization is seeking a Response Director to lead humanitarian efforts in complex crisis situations. The ideal candidate must have extensive leadership experience in humanitarian responses, strong communication skills, and the ability to lead diverse teams. The role involves strategic oversight of operations and collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure effective assistance delivery. This position requires significant travel and adaptability to challenging work conditions.

Qualifications

• 15 years in leadership roles in humanitarian and development sectors.
• 10 years' senior management experience in complex humanitarian responses.
• Effective in English communication; other UN languages preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee development & implementation of humanitarian strategy and plans.
• Direct response operations across multiple locations with partners.
• Recruit and manage a unified response team across countries.
• Ensure the response is well resourced, coordinated and communicates effectively with humanitarian actors, governments, donors, media, etc.
• Ensure the response is well coordinated with stakeholders across the World Vision Partnership.
• Ensure security, legal, safeguarding and other risks are well managed with good stewardship across the response.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Program management

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Team building

Education

University degree in humanitarian, development, international relations or relevant field

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

Emergency Response Roster - Response Director

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type

International Assignment - Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Job Description

Country location to be determined based on response.

Please submit your Cover Letter and CV in English.

Children’s lives can change in an instant in the wake of war, disasters and humanitarian emergencies. We see how vulnerable they are and how much they need our protection.

Here’s Where You Come In

As a Response Director, you will lead CAT III Global humanitarian response ensuring effective scale up and delivery of humanitarian assistance to affected vulnerable people as required. You will oversee all aspects of the response from strategy to implementation including team management, partner relations, risk management and relations with a wider range of local and international stakeholders for this large-scale response in a complex, fluid and challenging humanitarian context with a high level of global interest and engagement. You will be responsible for ensuring meaningful internal and external collaboration, coordination and engagement with a range of stakeholders in order to effectively deliver assistance to the most vulnerable children in the affected community.

We are looking for a senior, experienced humanitarian leader with a strong track record in complex crises and fragile contexts, and excellent team leadership, communications, risk and relationship management skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy: Oversee development & implementation of World Vision humanitarian response strategy and plans.
• Humanitarian Operations: Oversee response operations across multiple locations, direct and with/through partners.
• Team Leadership: Recruit, retain and manage a unified and effective response team across multiple countries and sites.
• External Engagement: Ensure the response is well resourced, coordinated and communicates effectively with humanitarian actors, governments, donors, media etc.
• World Vision Partnership Relations: Ensure the response is well coordinated with stakeholders across the World Vision Partnership.
• Risk Management: Ensure that security, legal, safeguarding, other key risks and resources are well managed with good stewardship across the response.

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

Required Education, Training, License, Registration, and/or Certification

• University degree in humanitarian, development, international relations or relevant field. Master’s degree preferred.

Required Professional Experience

• A minimum of 15 years in leadership roles in the humanitarian and development sector, including in major INGOs.
• At least 10 years’ senior management experience in humanitarian responses within complex, fragile and conflict related contexts.
• Excellent communications and relationship management skills.
• Demonstrated understanding of humanitarian principles, standards and best practices.
• Experience in leading a multi-cultural team of professionals.
• Experience working in high pressure, rapid response environments with multiple risks.
• External engagement at senior level with governments and multilateral agencies.

Required Language(s)

• Effective in written and verbal communication in English. Other UN languages such as French, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, preferred.

Required travel and/or work environment accommodations

• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 70% of the time.
• Work hours are often in excess of normal working hours per day during difficult periods of the response.
• Responses are often mounted in insecure or natural disaster-prone contexts, which may disrupt normal work patterns and generate staff safety issues.
• Work and housing environments may at times be well below normal standards in terms of facilities, equipment, food availability and hygiene.

Preferred Experience, Knowledge And/or Other Qualifications

• Experience in managing multi-sectoral emergency response
• Understanding of the international humanitarian law, and minimum standards particularly the systems, structures and key actors
• Understanding of the key accountabilities that must be maintained in a response (beneficiaries, donors, peers).
• Ability to lead strategic planning processes.
• Strong communication skills (oral and written) with ability to express ideas and concepts clearly and persuasively with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong team leadership skills.
• Emotional intelligence (self-awareness, managing emotions and those of others, remaining calm/composed, dealing with ambiguity and change).
• Ability to express ideas and concepts clearly and persuasively with senior internal and external stakeholders as well as staff.
• Ability to work in coordination with other humanitarian organizations.
• Ability to analyse and make timely decisions in challenging situations in the absence of specific guidance and/or full information.
• Ability to communicate and model to staff positive behaviours which help them remain resilient and effective in dynamic and high-pressure environments.
• Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) or equivalent relevant security training certificate.

Applicant Types Accepted

• Local and International Applicants (IA’s) Accepted