Emergency Director

Job title:

Emergency Director

Company

Concern Worldwide

Job description

C3 2021Job Title: Emergency DirectorReports to: Chief Executive OfficerTerms: Full-time,Permanent contract at exec level (GBF10); Dublin, IrelandSalary: Global Band 10 (€101,635 – €109,792)Requirements:

• Willingness to be deployed to an emergency at short notice
• Willingness and ability to travel to any of Concern existing or potential country programmes as deemed necessary

PLEASE NOTE – We will aim to host interviews for this role the week of the 20th of January 2025.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.

To apply: CVs should be submitted through our website at by the closing date.Please note that Concern Worldwide does not provide Visa sponsorship.Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy accessible . These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.Your Personal DataDuring this job application, you will provide Concern with your personal data. Concern takes its responsibilities towards this personal data very seriously and is committed to complying with all relevant data protection legislation.Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year. Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on ensuring that the name of any employee or volunteer (existing or new), does not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List).Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will only be made following a successful clearance check being conducted on the applicant and such checks may be updated periodically during the course of the period of employment.By submitting a formal application for paid or voluntary employment to Concern, you agree to Concern carrying out a clearance check as outlined above and that Concern will not proceed to recruit you should your name appear on any of the aforementioned listsIn certain circumstances, donors may request that personal data relating to employees to work on the activities that they fund be provided directly to them – so that they can perform their own counter terrorism checks. This may involve transferring some basic personal data outside the EEA. It will be a condition of your employment contract that Concern be allowed to share this information with institutional donors for these purposes.For additional information please consult our web site or contact the Human Resource Division in our Head Office.You have certain rights under data protection legislation. For more information on how to exercise those rights please visitPlease only apply for this position if you are satisfied with the proposed processing of your personal data as outlined above.Documents

Expected salary

€101635 – 109792 per year

Location

Dublin

Job date

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:27:42 GMT

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