World Vision
With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Here’s where you come in:
The Coordinator – Preparedness and Reporting is being established in recognition of the increasing frequency and intensity of disasters and the ensuing need to anticipate, plan for and reduce disaster risk in order to more effectively protect persons and communities, ensuring strong internal coordination and information sharing within the Disaster Management Team, and supporting leadership to ensure the breadth and depth of DM’s work is appropriately represented internally and externally.
The role will serve two major areas of work:
- Support preparedness & field readiness by keeping standards, tools and systems up to date and functional, supporting regions and FO’s on specific preparedness initiatives and coordinating and aggregating information on disaster risk reduction approaches and programming (50%)
- Support the Disaster Management Team with information gathering and reporting. He/she will collect, organize and relay information to foster collaboration and alignment among team members (50%),
Requirements include:
- Undergraduate degree in related field.
- 1-2 years of experience in humanitarian assistance, disaster risk reduction and/or transformational development
- Project and initiative management experience
- Ability to communicate well in a variety of settings (including remote/online teams) and to function in a diverse and globally dispersed team.
- Understanding of the international humanitarian system, principles and key standards.
- Excellent writing skills in English. French, Spanish, Arabic and/or Portuguese an asset.
- The position requires ability and willingness to travel up to 20% of the time.
How to apply
Is this the job for you?
Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position and apply online by the closing date 29 NOV 2023.
World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.
For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org. Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.