Senior Humanitarian Advisor

at  GOAL

ABOUT US

GOAL has responded to the world’s major humanitarian crises since its founding in 1977, working with vulnerable communities in 15 countries across the globe with a dedicated team of 3,500 personnel. While GOAL continues to be an agile first-responder to humanitarian crises, it is also committed to working with vulnerable communities to help them survive crises and support them on the road to recovery.

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document

JOB PURPOSE

Senior Humanitarian Advisors (SHAs) are a part of GOAL’s Emergency Response Unit; led by GOAL’s Humanitarian Director. This unit provides overall leadership and guidance to GOAL’s emergency preparedness and response function, leads GOAL’s emergency response during first phase in new territories or where additional capacity is required in exiting countries of operation, and leads on strategy entry into protracted crisis. GOAL’s Emergency Response Unit is primarily charged with developing and managing programmatic responses to rapid onset crises and ongoing complex emergencies, deploying to new emergencies.
The primary function of the SHA is to provide strategic support to GOAL’s emergency programming and surge management capacity to crisis responses in new and existing country programmes. The SHA will contribute fostering and building new partnerships at a global and on country levels to ensure that GOAL can effectively respond to crises. In addition, the SHA will have a focus of interest/expertise in health sector emergency response. The role will involve at least 30% travel.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

To support the effective preparatory action, planning, design, management and monitoring of GOAL’s emergency programming; specifically:

ACCOUNTABILITY WITHIN GOAL

A commitment to GOAL values and GOAL’s integrity framework is critical to working with GOAL. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability: 1) Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behaviour protocols; 2) Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area; 3) Report any concerns about inappropriate behaviour of a GOAL staff or partner.