Vacancy title:
Emergency Response Officer

Jobs at:
CAFOD

Deadline of this Job:
16th August 2018.

Duty Station:
Nairobi, Kenya

JOB DETAILS:
CAFOD, one of the UK‘s leading international aid agencies, is currently looking for an Emergency Response Officer — WASH.

Job Purpose
The Emergency Response Officer (ERO) — WASH has a global remit to contribute to the delivery of effective and high quality humanitarian assistance to new and ongoing humanitarian crises. As part of CAFOD's Emergency Response Team - involving frequent travel at short notice - the ERO provides technical field level and remote operational support as well as supporting the implementation and maintenance of systems and procedures for ensuring good practice and meeting sectoral standards on accountability and program quality. Working with partners is central to CAFOD's humanitarian response and the ERO will play an important role in improving and developing the capacity of partners to prepare Tor, mitigate the impact of, and respond to disasters by providing support, knowledge and building long-term capacity. All roles undertaken by the ERO will have the aim of achieving peace, security and recovery in accordance with CAFOD's mission and values.

Job Scope
A key component of this role is to be a part of CAFOD's Humanitarian Department global emergency response surge capacity — providing immediate, usually short term support to our humanitarian response teams in the field, as well as remote support. This role will be expected to be able to support a wide range of humanitarian responses, as well as technical expertise in Water and Sanitation. CAFOD's humanitarian response comes before during and after emergencies.

Our three core approaches are:

•  Capacity building of partners, in areas such as Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), program management, food security, nutrition and financial management.
  
•  Facilitation, in which we work alongside partners to help ensure the delivery of a program. This is our most common way of working.
  
•  Implementation, where CAFOD takes on a more direct implementation role in the delivery of a program when local partners lack the capacity to scale up rapidly.

Job application procedure
This post is offered as a national post based in Kenya but is also being advertised in other countries as a national position.
To read more and to apply please visit https://cafod.org.uk/Work-with-us  by 16th August 2018.

CAFOD is an equal opportunities employer
Recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to child protection. CAFOD is the official development and relief agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and part of the Caritas internationals Confederation.