DEPARTMENT:    Global Programs– Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery

REPORTS TO:    VP, Emergency Response & Recovery

Duties and Responsibilities

Leadership/Management

• Provide leadership, promote professionalism and teamwork, build working relationships, and encourage staff members to work effectively as representatives of AmeriCares
• In coordination with AmeriCares Human Resources, identify human resource needs and recruit staff to meet those needs
• Develop and implement policies for field office and warehouse operation, ensuring that policies are in line with local regulations and link to organizational policies and procedures
• Update, implement and adhere to security policies addressing local conditions
• Conduct discussions to identify and determine approaches to address staff’s stress levels and sense of security

Program Design, Implementation and Monitoring& Evaluation

• Work with AmeriCares HQ to design, develop, and implement recovery projects consistent with AmeriCares strategy, with a focus on health systems restoration and resilience, mental health and psychosocial services, and community health
• Identify and vet potential local partners
• Review proposals from implementing partners and provide input to project design
• Ensure compliance with local and international regulatory issues in program development and implementation
• Monitor projects as needed to ensure programs are being implemented within proposed budget and timeframes and that proposed objectives are being met
• Coordinate with existing partners to identify needs for medicines, medical supplies, and other relief supplies
• Work with AmeriCares HQ to build and offer shipments of medicine and medical supplies to partners
• Monitor distribution of supplies and obtain documentation of proper distribution
• Identify opportunities for AmeriCares to obtain additional funding and to implement additional health programming

Communications & Reporting

• Maintain regular communication with AmeriCares headquarters, providing timely situation reports, and updates on activities, accomplishments and challenges to inform AmeriCares program planning and decision making
• Prepareprogram reports and other reporting to AmeriCares external constituents
• Participate in responsible media coverage of events and programs related to AmeriCares efforts in coordination with AC Communications team at HQ

Core Americares Responsibilities

• Foster AmeriCares values of responsiveness, results orientation, collaboration, efficiency and integrity

Requirements

• Seven years’ experience in one or more of the following required: disaster response and recovery, humanitarian assistance, program management, orpublic health 
• Experience leading a team in a disaster response and recovery or humanitarian assistance context required
• Experience in public health preferred
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred
• Proficiency in English required; proficiency in Nepali and/or Hindipreferred
• Experience working in Nepal preferred
• Strong verbal and written organization skills
• Strong organizational skills, comfortable multi-tasking and working in a fast-paced, changing work environment
• Willingness to travel and work in earthquake-affected districts
• Able to operate independently and as part of a team

TO APPLY,

Interested candidates can send their updated resume to [email protected]

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