The Regional Humanitarian Director (RHD) plays a key role in CARE’s preparedness and response to humanitarian crises in the region. S/he reports to the Regional Director (RD) with a dotted line to the Humanitarian Affairs Sr Director for Emergency Response and Coordination. Based in Dakar, s/he represents CARE in regional humanitarian fora and to key humanitarian donors and manages the Regional Advocacy Advisor. The RHD provides coordination and support to Country Presences (CPs) responding to humanitarian crises, linking internal and external stakeholders to best support the response. S/he will be expected to be the first rapid response staff to deploy from outside the CP to support initial response start-up. S/he works to strengthen the capacity of CP’s and CARE’s partners to prepare for humanitarian responses in the region ensuring that program quality aspects of CARE’s locally led, globally connected and gender equal approach are integrated into our humanitarian programming.

Responsibilities:

• Humanitarian Response – Support to Country Presences (CPs)
• Drive Humanitarian Program Quality
• Enable Country Presence Preparedness and Capacity
• Ensure Humanitarian Representation and Information Sharing

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree, or relevant combination of qualifications and experience, in a relevant field
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in humanitarian preparedness, risk reduction and response
• Proven experience and competencies in external representation to key external stakeholders such as Donors, UN Agencies, and I/INGOs
• Experience in program design, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, including the CORE Humanitarian Standards, SPHERE standards, Grand Bargain, gender, donor relations, security and protection considerations
• Experience in scale-up emergency response, Gender in Emergencies; women’s empowerment programming and humanitarian accountability
• Excellent training, coaching and mentoring skills
• High level of writing and communication skills