Save the Children , Senior Humanitarian Professionals

Are you an experienced humanitarian professional with a comprehensive understanding of the managerial, operational, and technical challenges of first phase and chronic emergencies? If so, we’d really like to hear from you…

Save the Children is searching for Senior Humanitarian Professionals to join our Emergency Response team.

What is the Emergency Response Team ?

Save the Children’s origins lie in emergency response, and this has remained a central part of our work ever since. Save the Children’s strategy integrates our emergency and development work which is delivered through the medium of our country programmes. With the increasing frequency and severity of emergencies world-wide the organisation is increasing its capacity to support country programmes in both sudden onset and chronic emergency situations and the Emergency Response Team plays a critical role within the delivery of our humanitarian strategy. Members of the Emergency Response team are active members of SCUK’s Humanitarian department, and contribute to organisational learning as well as building the organisation’s capacity to respond quickly and effectively to emergencies world-wide.

Emergency Response Personnel (ERPs) are usually deployed for approximately 3 months at a time to country programmes around the world, typically to:

• An emergency response where Save the Children is scaling up and we need immediate emergency expertise • Surge capacity to a country programme by either filling a vacant position and/or adding further skills and experience to country programmes • Capacity building of individuals and/or country programmes to ensure that programmes are being run effectively

Some of the Senior Emergency Response team roles we are recruiting for:

• Team Leader • Deputy Team Leader • Field Manager • Operations Manager • Senior Health Adviser • Senior Logistics Manager • Senior Finance and Grants Manager • Senior Nutrition Adviser

Closing date: Sunday 29 July 2012 midnight British Summer Time (BST.)

Application and recruitment process..

• Applications will be screened throughout the recruitment period and candidates may be invited to participate in telephone / skype interviews and electronic testing before the vacancy closing date.

• Candidates who are successful in the telephone / skype interviews stage will be asked to attend a three day selection exercise, to be held in the UK, from the 16th – 18th September 2012.

• Contract start dates are flexible, ideally between September 2012 and January 2013.

How to apply:

Please visit our website www.savethechildren.org.uk/jobs and click International Vacancies for more information on individual posts and to apply.

To see what it's like working for Save the Children, both here in London and with our Emergency Response Team, check out our Careers Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMc3XA5upvo&feature=player_embedded