Senior Disaster Management Delegate

Organizational Unit / Duty Station: Disaster Management Unit, IFRC East Africa and Indian Oceans Islands Country Cluster support team, Based in Nairobi

The role of the Senior Disaster Management delegate is to ensure timely, efficient and effective IFRC support to National Societies that are dealing with the impact of sudden and slow onset disasters and crises events, to significantly reduce the impact of these events through effective response, relief and recovery operation support.

The cluster Senior Disaster Management delegate will work as part of the DM Unit in the East Africa country cluster team and is accountable, under the direction and guidance of the Cluster DM Coordinator, for managing the IFRC operations support to National Societies in the region.

In addition, the Senior Disaster Management delegate will be able to focus on key project management functions (including contract management) for individual operations and provide support in the administrative and financial management functions of the unit.

S/he works closely with the IFRC East Africa Cluster and Africa Regional technical teams with the aim of contributing to the improvement of the quality of DREF, Emergency appeals and other response operations.

Please see more information from the Job Description attached.

If you are interested, please send your application and CV to recruitment@redcross.fi by 15th April titled Senior Disaster Management Delegate.