Contract COVID 19 RESPONSE MANAGER – CONSULTANCY
Job Description
Background: CARE Vanuatu and it’s Portfolio
CARE is an international humanitarian aid organisation fighting global poverty, with a special focus on working with women and girls to bring lasting change to their communities. As a non-religious and non-political organisation, CARE works with communities to help overcome poverty by supporting development projects and providing emergency relief. a non-religious and non-political organisation, CARE works with communities to help overcome poverty by supporting development projects and providing emergency relief.
CARE has been working in Vanuatu since 2008 helping communities to increase their resilience to disasters and climate change, respond to emergencies and to advance gender equality. CARE Vanuatu has a long term program strategy which seeks to contribute to resilience and equality in Vanuatu where men, women, boys and girls enjoy equal rights and opportunities.
CARE has worked in Vanuatu for over a decade delivering impactful disaster risk reduction, resilience and gender equality programs. CARE International in Vanuatu has recently been implementing an emergency response program for Tropical Cyclone Harold.
More recently COVID cases of community transmission have been reported necessitating a scale up of response efforts. Options are being considered across CAREs program portfolio. CARE is also supporting supporting the Ministry of Health in Tafea Province to expand the NVRP to reach adolescents, remote and vulnerable populations, and areas of low immunisation rates in Tafea (risk communication outreach to combat vaccine hesitancy, and direct logistic and HR support to the MoH for vaccine roll out in Tafea Province).
Selection criteria
- Minimum of 5 years humanitarian aid experience in complex and / or natural disasters
- Good program management experience
- Demonstrated experience delivery high quality programs including familiarity with MEAL and reporting requirements
- Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to coach, mentor, manage and lead including experience in capacity building and skills-transfer to local organizations and staff
- Demonstrated proactive, flexible approach and ability to manage competing priorities and to organize and manage workload to meet deadlines
- Demonstrated high level of communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to create and foster collaborative and productive relationships with internal clients and external organizations
- Effective team management skills
- Strong understanding of the humanitarian emergency operating context, including SPHERE, the humanitarian system, donors, security, and program management
- Strong understanding of gender issues in the Pacific context and of designing programs in a gender-sensitive, and where feasible gender transformative, way
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