International Medical Corps Emergency Team Director ER-031

NOTE - THIS POSITION IS TO APPLY TO A STAND BY ROSTER FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (ERT).

Candidates selected for this position will be placed on the ERT standby roster and may be called when the International Medical Corps ERT responds to an emergency. This position is not compensated unless candidates are responding to an emergency response.

When catastrophe hits, International Medical Corps is often one of the first humanitarian aid organizations on the scene—providing rapid and effective aid that saves lives, reduces suffering, and promotes self reliance.

International Medical Corps has established an International Emergency Roster to ensure that emergency positions are filled in a timely manner with professionally qualified, gender balanced, geographically diverse, linguistically able and a highly motivated corps of professionals. The team includes coordinators, logisticians, doctors and water and sanitation experts. It also includes specialists who focus on protection, prevention of sexual violence and aid for rape survivors and mental health.

Emergency Response Team (ERT) members are always on standby to deploy to a crisis within 72 hours, whether they are launching into new areas or lending support to International Medical Corps teams already on the ground.

International Medical Corps maintains a roster of staff which is updated on regular basis in order to include new staff into the system. This also provides an opportunity for the existing staff to update their areas of expertise and other relevant information.

Through this expression of Interest, applicants are encouraged to submit their profiles so that their information is readily available in the International Medical Corps applicant tracking system.

JOB SUMMARY Management of the International Medical Corps Emergency Response Team (ERT) and coordination of their deployment in order to respond to humanitarian emergencies.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Leadership - Lead, manage and coordinate the overall contribution of the International Medical Corps

Emergency Response Team: planning, training and development - Create a shared vision and team cohesion among the ERT - Manage the operating principles and guidelines for the ERT - Lead, develop and implement a coherent country response strategy that contributes to International Medical Corps global objectives - Coordinate closely with Director of International Operations and other departments within International Medical Corps

Staff Management / HR - Establish systems for maintaining an overview of all staff activity in pursuit of ERT aims - Co-ordinate prioritizing of requests for ERT staff in consultation with other involved functions - Maintain HR management tools incl. organizational charts, job descriptions, performance evaluations, disciplinary processes as per International Medical Corps policies - Line manage staff, including regular performance management and appraisals in coordination with Operations Desks - Ensure effective teamwork among staff

Needs Assessments and Emergency Response - Undertake emergency field deployment and perform needs assessments as ERT leader - Develop and maintain productive working relationships with emergency donors - Facilitate smooth handover of programme management to the Operations desk, past the first response phase.

Representation Influence (inter)national health and other policy and practice by: - Represent International Medical Corps to Local & National Authorities, international donors, UN Agencies, international and national NGOs. - Develop good working relationships with other humanitarian/emergency actors such as INGOs, UN agencies and Donors.

Administration Ensure that appropriate logistic, administrative and financial structures and procedures appropriate for emergency response are established and / or maintained in accordance with IMC guidelines.

Security (If Security Officer has not been deployed) - Responsible for the security of all international and national staff when deployed on needs assessments or emergency response.. - Ensure that appropriate security guidelines and procedures are established, maintained / updated regularly and adhered to by the response team.

Finance - Oversee budget preparation, setting the parameters and the process - Establish and / or maintain the International Medical Corps field accounting systems - Oversee the completion and return to LA/Split of field accounts within the agreed deadlines.

Other Carry out any other responsibilities as requested by the Director of Emergency Response and or his designee

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS: - Minimum of three years in a senior management position in an INGO environment, preferably in insecure environments and to include two years responsibility for project management including budget control. - Experience of general management, including finances, human resources and planning - Significant experience of emergency response - Ability to travel at short notice for periods of up to three months at a time. - Relevant IT skills - Excellent communication skills and the ability to represent IMC to a broad range of people and organizations - Knowledge, practical understanding of and ability to work within both relief and development NGO contexts - A strong experience and understanding of security management and insecure environments - A degree level qualification in a relevant discipline - Knowledge and experience of the health sector in a developing country. - Team working, flexibility and relationship building skills, ability to develop positive working relations across functions and cultures, quite often at a distance - Problem solving skills in day to day and crisis situations - Resilience and stress management skills for self and team - Identify and analyze opportunities that contribute to strategic aims, translate them into practical plans and implement them - Good written and spoken English - Experience of donor liaison, securing donor funds, reporting and managing large budgets - Masters level qualification in a relevant discipline

How to apply:

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

To officially begin the application process, please visit our website athttp://careers.internationalmedicalcorps.org/careers.aspx

And complete the online employment application form.