Emergency Team Technical Placement

MENTOR

Position Title: Emergency Team Technical Placement (ETTP)

Starting: March

Reporting to: CEO and Head of Emergency Operations

Period of consultancy: TBD

Place of Work: The MENTOR Initiative HQ, five days per week unless indicated otherwise.

Overall Job Purpose

The Technical Placement supports MENTOR’s Emergency Team (ET) in spearheading the organisation in responding to acute humanitarian needs that are caused by (complex) emergencies, disease outbreaks, and natural disasters, all within the organisation’s specific competence and experience. Given the nature of this mandate, this will require the Technical Placement to be flexible within the specific job purpose, which will in part be contingent on the needs of the Emergency Team. But above all, we look for a hands-on person with strong written and oral skills and sound sense of humour.

Core Responsibilities:

The Technical Placement will support the Emergency Team through the following core responsibilities:

· Management Support:

o Communication liaison when emergency team members are out of office (HQ-ET, Field-ET, CEO-ET, Solidarités International-ET) in emergency response related matters.

o Organise administrative preparation for field missions of ET members, both core staff and pooled staff (visa, ticketing, briefings, insurance)

o Organize (regular) ET meetings, including additional participants, bilateral meetings for individual ET members (PMs, CEO, donors)

o Update absence roster for the individual ET members according to leave requests, field missions and other work-related absence

o Assist in mobilization and rapid deployment (surges) of experienced professionals to join the Emergency Response Team (ERT).

· Technical support:

o Contribute knowledge and ideas of health and/or prevention related activities and programmes. This may include identifying specific health concerns of an identified country/area, mapping etc.

o Assisting in the design of potential programs by applying existing technical experience and knowledge relating to global health (primary/secondary health care, community messaging, prevention activities etc).

· Writing:

o Produce Situation Reports on countries identified by the Emergency Team for continual monitoring.

o Assist in the production of Emergency Team monthly reports.

o Assist in the production of Concept Notes and Proposals for identified programmes.

o Carrying out, when requested, the production of specific reports relevant to the Emergency Team.

o Produce and distribute minutes of Emergency Team meetings.

· Research:

o Undertaking the necessary desk-based research for any of the writing tasks detailed above.

o Undertake, when requested, research into existing and potential complex crises, disease outbreaks, and natural disasters.

o Continually track potential funding opportunities to support the Emergency Team’s future interventions and diversify its institutional funding base.

o Carrying out relevant research into the humanitarian sector to feed into the Emergency Team’s programme and strategy development.

Contingent Responsibilities:

The Technical Placement may be required to support the Emergency Team in the setup of emergency programmes as and when deemed necessary. This may include all activities listed below, and is mainly seen in the context of identifying benchmarks in the intern’s learning process.

Responsibilities may include:

· Supporting the (acting) Programme Manager of the given programme start-up:

o Supporting the necessary administrative duties that are assigned at HQ for the programme start-up.

o Updating documents with the necessary contextual information for the programme start-up.

o Providing continual relevant desk-based research.

· If deemed necessary, joining the Emergency Team in-field in the start-up of a given programme.

o Under the responsibility of the ET leader, being part of the team and, in concertation with the team leader carry out delegated activities on the level of general management, logistics, finance and administration

Other:

Any other duties as may be assigned to the Emergency Team Technical Placement by the Emergency Team Coordinator and/or MENTOR’s Director.

Note: the role of Emergency Team Technical Placement (as with any role in the Emergency Team) may require field visits at very short notice. This may include visiting areas that are considered endemic to disease, highly insecure, and/or are experiencing a natural disaster. It is expected of the Technical Placement to have the flexibility in this regard, all within the organizational guidelines and risk analyses.

Note: we are looking for an ETTP that complements the Emergency Team’s language skills. Fluency in English is a must, additional skills an asset, in particular Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian.

Qualifications and Experience:

· Public health related, nurse or other similar related qualification

· Postgraduate training in public health or related field beneficial

· Understanding of epidemiology, vector borne disease prevention and/or case management beneficial

· Fluent English necessary. Knowledge of Spanish / French / Portuguese / Italian beneficial.

· Familiarity with NGO working environments and standard procedures an advantage.

How to apply

CV and letter of motivation to [email protected]


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