Response Director

CARE Palestine (West Bank/Gaza) is looking for a committed professional to the values of Transformation, Integrity, Diversity, Equality, and Excellence to fill the following vacancy:

Response Director

Following the intense conflict between Israel and Palestine, the situation in Gaza and West Bank is quickly deteriorating with an estimated 2.7 million people in needs of immediate assistance.

CARE Palestine is scaling up its response to support 1 million people in the next 12 months.

CARE Response Director is responsible for the quality and effectiveness of CARE’s emergency response. He/she is the leader of the Response Team, responsible and accountable for developing, coordinating, and managing all emergency activities in alignment with CARE's technical and program quality standards.

 Job Responsibility #1: Assessment, Program Design and Planning

1. Ensure gender-sensitive emergency assessments are executed and from them an integrated emergency response, implementation and exit strategies are developed.
2. Lead development and regular review of CARE's Emergency Response Strategy, incorporating contextual changes and findings of a Gender Analysis.
3. Ensure that CARE International Members and donors are provided with regular sitreps and are aware of humanitarian developments and CARE’s responses.
4. Coordinate the development of all project implementation plans and budgets within the framework of the agreed emergency response program and strategy.
5. Assist and advise the Country Director with donor engagement in order to secure donor funding for emergency projects.
6. Oversee project design and proposal preparations for institutional and public funding.
7. Ensure sufficient reach into areas of recurrent humanitarian vulnerability.
8. Ensure all project designs are at a minimum gender sensitive, as per CARE's Gender Marker. 
9. In close collaboration with the Gender Advisor, ensure that CARE has started building a track record of GBV prevention, integration, and response.

Job Responsibility #2: Emergency Project Management and Implementation

1. Maintain ongoing surveillance of the developing humanitarian situation and adjust activities accordingly, including through project and budget realignments.
2. Oversee delivery of emergency projects throughout the project cycle, ensuring that commitments to donors and beneficiaries are met
3. Ensure adequate monitoring, reporting and feedback mechanisms of emergency response activities in accordance with CARE International’s humanitarian accountability framework, relevant humanitarian quality standards, and essential environmental mitigation measures.
4. Promote learning and adaptive management of emergency projects, ensuring data from MEAL and Feedback mechanisms are used to review and improve projects
5. Ensure that different sectoral activities are implemented in a coordinated and integrated manner.
6. Ensure all emergency personnel understand and carry out their duties in accordance with humanitarian principles, core values, the Code of Conduct and humanitarian standards.
7. Ensure PSEA safeguards are fully integrated in all emergency project activities and throughout the project cycle.
8. Ensure with the Finance Manager the establishment and maintenance of CARE International financial management and accounting systems for all assessment and response activities and assets.
9. Review and ensure timely submission of projects programmatic and financial reports.

Job Responsibility #3: General Management, Leadership and coordination

1. Supervise the emergency team in accordance with CARE's HR guidelines
2. Ensure that human resources implications for both existing and anticipated emergency response are fully assessed, identified, described and communicated.
3. Monitor ongoing human resources issues and make recommendations and adjustments accordingly.
4. Ensure deployed staff members receive thorough briefings and information, as well as thorough debriefings and handovers upon conclusion of deployment.
5. In liaison with the HR staff make sure staff have suitable rest, relaxation and that wellbeing is addressed
6. Ensure all emergency staff are fully briefed on all aspects of security, social and cultural norms and local conditions and behaviour.
7. Establish and maintain constructive working relationships with other NGO’s, UN agencies, host government, bilateral and multilateral donors, and other principle stakeholders including the military where present and if necessary.
8. Recommend changes to the emergency team composition and functioning with Country Office and partners to maximise emergency programme quality and effectiveness.
9. Create the conditions to ensure effective teamwork and morale. Ensure staff wellbeing is addressed.
10. Conduct performance appraisals of emergency staff if and as required, ensure regular feedback and mentoring on individual performance.
11. Ensure the Country Director, Line Management, and CARE Members are kept informed about assessment progress, emergency response implementation and strategies, project plans, progress reports, and other significant developments.
12. All staff members understand and abide by the CARE Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) / Child Protection (CP) Policy. All staff must sign the relevant Code of Conduct. Staff are required to report any suspicions of exploitation and abuse of children and vulnerable people via established internal mechanisms. All staff must adhere to CARE’s zero tolerance policy for sexual exploitation and abuse of children.
13. Responsible for creating a culture of reporting any suspicions of sexual exploitation and abuse. The staff member is responsible for preventing and responding to sexual exploitation and abuse, including the review of PSEA/CP reporting mechanisms in accordance with Care’s Code of Conduct and internal/ external policies.
14. The staff member must monitor the development and implementation of PSEA/Child Protection reporting mechanisms in the CO emergency plans, reinforcing CARE’s zero tolerance approach to PSEA and Child exploitation and abuse.

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Job Profile Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years humanitarian aid experience in complex and natural disasters in a senior leadership role.
• Proven knowledge of WASH, Health, Nutrition, Food Security and Protection programming.
• Proven experience in ensuring gender sensitivity in humanitarian programs
• Proven experience in the development of program strategies and project proposals
• Experience with key institutional donors, including BHA, ECHO, GAC, SHF, UNHCR and other UN agencies
• High level experience in aspects of management, including managing multi-million-dollar budgets.
• Experience in complex decision making and leading a multi-disciplinary, multi-national team under difficult circumstances.
• The highest level of expertise in representation and negotiation with governments, donors, partners, and the UN cluster system.
• Strong understanding of the humanitarian emergency operating context, including Sphere, the humanitarian system, humanitarian principles donors, security, civil military liaison and program management.
• Relevant language skills for the country of deployment.
• Integrity: Works with trustworthiness and integrity and has a clear commitment to CARE's core values and humanitarian principles.

Desired

• People Skills: Ability to work independently and as a team player who demonstrates leadership and is able to support and train local and international staff and also able to work with disaster affected communities in a sensitive and participatory manner.
• Communication Skills: Well developed written and oral communication skills. Able to communicate clearly and sensitively with internal and external stakeholders as a representative of CARE. This includes effective negotiation and representation skills.
• Resilience/Adaptability and flexibility: Ability to operate effectively under extreme circumstances including stress, high security risks and harsh living conditions. Works and lives with a flexible, adaptable and resilient manner.
• Awareness and sensitivity of self and others: Demonstrates awareness and sensitivity to gender and diversity. Have experience and the ability to live and work in diverse cultural contexts in a culturally appropriate manner. Has a capacity to make accurate self-assessment particularly in high stress and high security contexts.
• Work style: Is well planned and organized even within a fluid working environment and has a capacity for initiative and decision making with competent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge and skills: knowledge of CARE policies and procedures, Sphere, and the Red Cross/ NGO Code of Conduct. Requires general finance, administration, information management and telecommunication skills and proficiency in information technology/ computer skills.

Interested applicants are encouraged to send their CV and Cover letter by e- mail to [email protected], to the attention of the HR Department no later than Sunday 10/12/2023, indicating the job title the subject line and cover letter. Applications received after this date or that do not meet the qualifications above will not be considered. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Applications from female candidates are strongly encouraged.

CARE International promotes the principle of Equal Opportunity for all.