Deadline: 10 September, 2024
Location: Zimbabwe
Tearfund is seeking to recruit a Humanitarian Response Coordinator based in Zimbabwe.
Tearfund is a United Kingdom based, Christian INGO working in 50 countries around the world, to lift people out of poverty, using local partners and churches wherever possible.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical support and humanitarian advice, to strengthen the disaster preparedness and response of Tearfund’s partner led programmes
- Facilitate local churches, partners and communities to deliver church and community resilience , humanitarian response and transformational initiatives that are environmentally and economically sustainable in line with the Zimbabwe country strategy and Tearfund corporate priorities
- Ensure high quality coordination and management of resilience, emergency response initiatives among Tearfund partners and with other like-minded partners
- Support programme fundraising efforts through partner programme management and accompaniment as well as ensuring Tearfund and donor compliance
- Responsible for innovating on resilience and emergency response initiatives, ensuring appropriate information and communication management and learning for Tearfund, local partners, other local partnerships and donors
- Provide technical support for resilience initiatives and humanitarian response and ensure partners and communities are prepared for any humanitarian shocks
- Strengthen the capacity of Tearfund’s partners to respond to disasters in Zimbabwe by providing comprehensive oversight on programme implementation
- Lead the coordination of Tearfund resilience and emergency response work with and among Tearfund like-minded partners and among Tearfund local partners
- Advise, support and train partners on humanitarian standards, emergency response standard and disaster risk reduction and support resource mobilisation through networking with integral partners and Tearfund partnerships team in Teddington
- Support coordination efforts of relief and emergency work with the government of Zimbabwe and UN agencies in-country and in situations where regional coordination responses are called for
Requirements
- Substantial international INGO field experience ideally in programme management, proposal development (narrative and budgets) and/or donor reporting
- Five years, minimum, of experience in livelihoods, resilience, emergency and/or cash approaches
- Proven experience in humanitarian environments with successful examples of project implementation
- Understanding and application of relevant international standards
- Proven ability to develop winning proposals for public and/or private-sector donors
- Experience in log frame development and project cycle
- Management, ideally in a complex environment
- Training and partner capacity building
- Monitoring and evaluation experience
- Strategic planning/project planning and Implementation
- Excellent oral and written communication, proposal and report writing, presentation skills
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