Regional HEA Senior Advisor - MEER

Responsibilities

• JOB POSITION: Regional HEA Senior Advisor
• Response Programme Management
• -Provide in-country or remote leadership and technical support to Humanitarian response teams as requested by the Regional Impact Director or Senior Director of Operations.
• -Lead or support emergency response set up, scale up, coordination and/or transition, ensuring responses are timely, context-relevant, risk-informed and aligned with external and WVs standards and requirements.
• -Support and, where delegated, lead emergency declaration processes, alert drafting/review, response coordination mechanisms and response planning.
• -Lead or contribute to development of humanitarian response plans, scenario, or contingency plans, among other processes.
• -Remain available for deployment to crises situations in a country or region within 24 to 72 hours and (worst case scenario) be prepared to support for up to 12 weeks (remote and/or in country).
• Direct Field support
• -Ensure that the leadership of selected countries have adequately considered humanitarian issues (including preparedness, response capacity, early action and scenario and risk analysis) into their strategies, structures, and programming.
• -Provide technical input into humanitarian project design and grant proposals, ensuring proposals are context-relevant, feasible, risk-informed and aligned with World Vision (WV) and external humanitarian standards.
• -Field Offices with scenario planning, disaster risk reduction, anticipatory action, early action, CBDRM and other preparedness approaches according to country and regional needs.
• -Review Field Office humanitarian communications, positioning materials and response updates from an HEA perspective, supporting technical accuracy, and alignment with response priorities.
• -Advise Field Office leadership on humanitarian issues as requested.
• Capacity Building & Surge
• -Lead the design, development and delivery of regional disaster management capacity strengthening initiatives, including the Regional Disaster Management Team and National Disaster Management Team training, refreshers, mentoring, ToT and learning processes.
• -Work with the RDMT leaders of other regions to gather best practice and opportunities to improve MEERs RDMT and enable inter regional deployments.
• -Manage and strengthen the MEER deployment roster and related surge systems so that timely and capable humanitarian surge support can be mobilized as needed.
• -Mentor national, regional program staff, supporting practical application of external humanitarian standards and internal standards and awareness through on-the-job learning.
• -Liaise with Global Centre (GC) DM Surge functions to influence their development, coordinate deployments and maximize their value for MEER.
• -Lead on development and implementation of DM related capacity building and surge capacity strategies and plans in consultation with the Impact Director and other key RO functions
• Quality Assurance and Policy Alignment
• -Provide technical support to ensure Regional HEA engagement with SMQ systems and procedures such as AIM, IMPAQ, Response Portal, etc.
• -Develop, adapt, and promote practical tools, templates, and guidance , ensuring learning from other regions and disaster management practitioners.
• -Build mechanisms for gathering, analysing, and sharing lessons-learned, after-action review findings, best practice and innovation across the region and the wider partnership.
• -Ensure that relevant WVI DM pol

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With 75 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 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children's life stories!

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