United States of America: Humanitarian Assistance Officer (2221)

Organization: Global Communities
Country: United States of America
Closing date: 14 Nov 2014

Global Communities is an international development non-profit organization. Our mission is to create long-lasting, positive and community-led change that improves the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable people across the globe.

Global Communities is seeking a Humanitarian Assistance Officer to join its International Operations team at the Headquarters in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland.

Within the small, fast-paced Office of Humanitarian Assistance, the Humanitarian Assistance Officer is primarily responsible for select program management tasks for humanitarian assistance and recovery programs. He/she provides technical advice to relevant program staff; supports new humanitarian assistance and recovery program development efforts; and enhances Global Communities’ emergency response capacity. Primary job responsibilities include:

• Ensures deliverables of rapid onset and on-going humanitarian assistance and recovery programs are met through coordination with relevant teams and departments.
• Supports or in select circumstances, leads effective program financial management and adherence to financial and contractual policies and procedures.
• Acts as technical writer, technical advisor and reviewer on relevant humanitarian program development initiatives.
• Participates in field humanitarian needs assessments in rapid-onset and on-going emergency settings, and serves in various roles on emergency response teams as required. Produces succinct written and oral summaries and analyses of humanitarian conditions.
• Contributes to the development and implementation of the overall Global Communities humanitarian assistance strategy.
• Represents Global Communities at relevant coordination forums. Establishes and maintains excellent working relationships with other humanitarian assistance personnel.
• Undertakes all other duties and projects as may be assigned from time to time.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated knowledge of international humanitarian response and recovery program methodologies, monitoring and evaluation techniques, and grants administration.
• Ability to manage, track and report on budgets and program financial data.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Suite. Comfortable working with large amounts of data and Excel spreadsheets.
• Strong program design and management skills in a complex, humanitarian environment.
• Demonstrated technical abilities in any of the following areas preferred: economic recovery and market systems (ERMS), urban response programming, humanitarian protection and gender-based violence efforts, livelihoods and food security, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), GIS/mapping.
• Experience working successfully in cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary settings.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, alongside the ability to interpret documents and spreadsheets, analyze information, and develop strategies.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, written and oral. Foreign language skills preferred, especially Arabic or Spanish.
• Ability to work effectively in an atmosphere of shifting priorities and deadline pressure.
• Excellent organizational skills. Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and meet conflicting deadlines with a minimum of supervision.
• Ability to mobilize, often with no more than 24 to 48 hours’ notice, to challenging and insecure environments. Willingness to travel approximately up to 30% of the time.
• Ability to establish and maintain excellent working relationships with other humanitarian assistance actors, including donors.

Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in business or international affairs related degree.
• A minimum of 3 years related experience, with at least one year working in an international humanitarian setting.
• Experience managing disaster response and recovery activities.
• Must have U.S. work authorization.

EOE/M/F/V/D

How to apply:

Please apply directly at:
http://globalcommunities.silkroad.com/epostings/submit.cfm?fuseaction=ap...