Country Humanitarian Coordinator
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- CO Congo DRC
- Published: 2025-02-06
- published till: 2025-02-20
About CBM
To reinforce our Country DRC Officer team, we are looking for Country Humaniterian Coordinator. The position is a position with 40h/week and is only filled locally with contractual conditions of the DRC. An expatriation is not intended.
These are your responsibilities
• Leads the country situation analysis, including overview of the humanitarian architecture, disaster scenarios/context analysis and stakeholder mapping, and proactively engages in Country Strategic planning process and mid-term reviews.
• Ensures that adequate emergency preparedness measures are taken through the development, updating and implementation of the Country Humanitarian Preparedness Plan,
• Identifies implementing partners for inclusive humanitarian assistance delivery nationwide and ensures that the CO has pre-positioned partners in the high-risk geographic areas with a clearly defined humanitarian package, carries out mapping of different organizations, networks, and alliances that CBM wants to look at influencing and providing technical assistance on disability inclusion (I/NGOs, the UN, donor agencies and the government).
• Identifies likeminded organisations, including organisations of persons with disabilities and experts from disability movement, for collaboration for joint influencing and providing technical assistance to mainstream humanitarian actors on disability inclusive humanitarian action.
• As part of the preparedness work defines the where (within the country), when, how, with whom and niche area/value addition for inclusive humanitarian response.
• Supports readiness of partners to respond based on the sectors they work in, and in line in the niche areas of CBM operation (Health & Rehab; Inclusive Cash & Voucher Assistance; disability inclusion technical advisory to the sector; Inclusive WASH, Education, Food Security & Livelihoods, and Shelter depending on context and partners’ expertise), common agreed approaches, programme standards, tools, and processes.
• Provides direction and guidance to the CO in the implementation of emergency preparedness measures, including refining systems, processes, and procedures for a timely and effective emergency response.
Capacity Development and Knowledge Management
• Identifies the capacity development needs of the country office team and partners in disability inclusive humanitarian action and facilitates the required training and capacity building to address the identified gaps.
• Conducts partner assessments and establishes a monitoring mechanism to measure the impact of the CO and partner capacity building initiatives.
• Inducts partners on relevant humanitarian standards and tools (e.g. Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS), Humanitarian Inclusion Standards for Older People and People with Disabilities (HIS), IASC Guidelines on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action, through regular trainings and refresher exercises.
• Contributes towards collective learning within CBM through structured documentation of approaches, good practices and lessons learned on disability inclusion in humanitarian action within country, and dissemination of these learnings as part of the humanitarian community of practice.
Coordination on Disability Inclusion in Humanitarian Assistance
• Participates in relevant humanitarian coordination fora (e.g. Protection, Health, Early Recovery Cluster, Cash Working Group, etc. meetings) to promote inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian assistance.
• Builds functional relationships, establishes, and strengthens networks and alliances towards inclusive humanitarian practice in collaboration with the disability movement and likeminded organisations.
Emergency Programme Management
• In the event of an emergency, takes immediate action for collecting reliable information to verify the nature and extend of the emergency from local partners, government, and other humanitarian actors. Provides input in and contributes toward determining priorities and an appropriate intervention by CBM and its partners and provides a swift recommendation on the intended response.
• Supports the development of humanitarian funding proposals and related documents as per need and in alignment with CBM’s Global Programme Quality Framework.
• Leads the development and effective set-up of inclusive emergency response and recovery programme strategies and subsequent projects.
• Develops partnerships and provides overall oversight, monitoring, and quality assurance of the programme implementation, including timely disbursement of programme funds and maintaining up-to-date records of the same.
• Ensures robust humanitarian Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) frameworks are built in every crisis.
• Represents CBM in relevant humanitarian coordination meetings, and ensures persons with disabilities are adequately consulted, informed, and involved in humanitarian response by establishing and strengthening networks and alliances around disability inclusion in the crisis affected areas in collaboration with local partners and the disability movement.
• Provides strategic oversight and capacity building support to the project/partner staff under his or her supervision.
• Ensures timely and quality programmatic reporting on CBM’s humanitarian interventions in the country.
• Identifies and addresses proactively potential challenges and/or risks by working closely with the partners and all relevant stakeholders.
These are your qualifications
What we offer
- A meaningful position with a lot of creative freedom in the world's leading organisation in the field of Disability Inclusive Development.
- A fair salary and other social benefits based on the local conditions in the country you apply for.
- An approachable, agile organisation with self-reliant people in a diverse and collegial team and great team spirit.
How to apply
A letter of motivation, CV and relevant (work) references complete your application.
We look forward to receiving your application!
We would like to further promote diversity in our teams and therefore welcome applications from people of different ethnic and social backgrounds, religions and world views, different ages and genders, and especially from people with disabilities.
*Suitability is decisive, gender is irrelevant!
