Technical Advisor II - Emergency Response and Recovery - LACRO Regional Focal Point

Catholic Relief Services; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Catholic Relief Services seeks a Technical Advisor II for Emergency Response and Recovery, serving as the LACRO Regional Focal Point. You will guide program design, quality, and donor-aligned initiatives across Latin America and the Caribbean, working with country programs to strengthen surge capacity and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities include leading field deployments, developing technical designs for complex proposals, and ensuring adherence to CRS standards, gender

Responsibilities

• Contribute to region and agency-wide strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in Emergency Response and Recovery; engage partners, donors, governments; ensure cross-sectoral gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction.
• Provide technical solutions to regional and CP teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning, program design, implementation standards, partnership principles, and M&E.
• Lead or act as Emergency Coordinator or Head of Office during field deployments; support emergency field offices, teams, and relief operations.
• Support growth opportunities in Emergency Response and Recovery; contribute to technical design for large/complex proposals with monitoring systems and indicators.
• Strengthen capacity of staff and partners via trainings, curricula, and coaching; develop learning strategies and knowledge sharing.
• Strengthen partnerships with local actors to improve technical quality and delivery.
• Contribute to knowledge management by analyzing data, reporting lessons learned, and sharing best practices; engage in donor forums and coordination meetings.
• Represent CRS at humanitarian cluster and donor meetings; promote CRS work and partner collaboration.
• Promote health and wellbeing of CRS and partner emergency staff.

Job description

Job Title

Technical Advisor II - Emergency Response and Recovery - LACRO Regional Focal Point

Reports to

HRD EPRT Director

Department

HRD

Salary Grade

10

Job Summary

You will provide technical advice, guidance and support on a wide range of program design and implementation issues, with a focus on Emergency Response and Recovery, in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices.

You will support regional and Country Program (CP) teams to advance the delivery of high-quality programming for the poor and vulnerable. As the emergency focal point for country programs in the Latin America and Caribbean Region (LACRO), you will provide the following support, with a focus on LACRO:

• Rapid surge support for program quality, management, and leadership capacity for new and ongoing humanitarian responses;
• Guidance to CPs and partners on humanitarian funding opportunities and support for humanitarian proposal design and development, in coordination with regional teams and HRD sectoral technical advisors;
• Support for emergency program quality, management, knowledge management, capacity strengthening, and sharing, as requested, to ensure best practices and learning are shared across country programs and partners; and
• Application of a humanitarian lens to discussions on broader program quality initiatives within the region.

Your technical knowledge, advice, and guidance will contribute to the effectiveness, adaptability, and innovation of CRS' Emergency Response and Recovery programming within the Region and globally.

Roles and Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and implementation of region and/or agency-wide 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, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction.
• Provide technical solutions to regional and CP teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and the application of program design and implementation standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) approaches to ensure high-quality implementation. Take on acting emergency leadership roles, such as Emergency Coordinator or Head of Office, and support the set-up and/or management of emergency field offices, teams, and relief operations, as requested, during field deployments. Support may also be provided in other response functions, such as security, staffing, supply chain/logistics, finance, IT/communications, and administration, as needed.
• Contribute to regional and country program efforts to pre-position CRS for growth opportunities in Emergency Response and Recovery. Lead or contribute to the development of the technical design for large and/or complex proposals, including defining appropriate monitoring systems and indicators. Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities, and technical requirements into CRS' approach.
• Contribute to capacity strengthening initiatives in Emergency Response and Recovery programming for staff and partners by supporting the identification of capacity gaps and technical assistance needs; helping develop learning and training strategies, agendas, and curricula; conducting trainings and workshops; and mentoring and coaching CP staff. Capacity strengthening approaches may include formal and on-the-job training, development or streamlining of operational policies and systems, and accompaniment of partners, as appropriate.
• Strengthen partnership approaches by working closely with local partners to improve technical quality and delivery.
• Contribute to knowledge management and learning by 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.
• Establish and maintain relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions. Participate in forums in Emergency Response and Recovery to collect and share best practices and promote CRS' work.
• Represent the agency and partners at humanitarian cluster, donor and coordination meetings in the field and at international cluster meetings, as requested.
• Promote health and wellbeing of CRS and partner emergency staff.