As a member of the LAC regional office humanitarian team
the regional emergency preparedness and response management coordinator provides a primary support function to the regional humanitarian director
other members of the humanitarian team and country humanitarian focal points. He/she is the primary focal point for all Country Offices in the region for humanitarian response management procedure and works with countries to ensure their timely and appropriate application. He/she leads on oversight to all Category 4 and some category 3 responses providing coordination and guidance to the humanitarian focal points
in support to the regional humanitarian director. KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Coaching
accompaniment and capacity building: Provide coaching and accompaniment to country humanitarian focal points / leads to help them assume responsibility for the prompt development or updating of response deliverables (e.g. alerts
categorisations
strategic statements
etc) and overall coaching to ensure the speedy and appropriate application of the response management procedure. Work with countries to ensure quality and appropriateness of inputs into Save the Children’s Humanitarian Plan and synergy with country strategic plans and regional priorities. Preparedness support and anticipatory action: Monitor for emerging disaster situations and advise countries (ahead of impact if possible) to ensure countries promptly develop alerts. Work with regional DRR adviser
RHD and countries to promote anticipatory action related to those emerging situations as appropriate. Ensure countries promptly develop their proposals for HF funding for preparedness. Make use of EPP process to strengthen country application of response management procedure. May support regional humanitarian capacity building adviser to develop emergency simulations. Operational response management support: Through detailed knowledge of the roles of other regional team members
detect issue within the competence of other colleagues and promptly “refer cases” to ensure early development of support to countries where required. Work with countries to ensure speedy development of proposals to the Humanitarian Fund when appropriate. Participate in relevant global task teams and coordination meetings with headquarters to improve response management procedures or other organisation processes. May visit smaller scale responses (category 4
occasional category 3) to support team to work through response management procedure challenges
systems issues and complications limiting response and scale-up and provide generalist humanitarian support and backstopping. May participate in operations control reviews during large emergencies
including outside of the LAC region. May manage response coordination meetings in the absence of the RHD. May occasionally have to develop response management deliverables or products for country offices in times of reduced capacity or gaps. Surge support: Work closely with the regional humanitarian capacity building adviser and GEHSP team to ensure continued registration of LAC staff in the GEHSP surge platform. Work with countries to ensure that all countries have a GEHSP focal point who remains briefed of new initiatives on the platform and that countries ensure that people deployed through the GEHSP receive exit interviews / post-deployment performance reviews. Monitor for GEHSP / surge deployment requests and bring these to the attention of relevant regional office staff and others as needed.