Regional HEA Senior Advisor - MEER

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

**Here’s where you come in:**

As the **Regional HEA Senior Advisor – MEER** youwill provide strategic and technical leadership to strengthen disaster management across Middle East and Eastern Europe (MEER). Through technical advice, influence, coordination, deployment and remote support, you will help Field Offices and regional leadership anticipate, prepare, and manage humanitarian responses that are context-relevant, timely and aligned with WV and external standards and requirements. You will also lead regional capacity strengthening, including Regional/ National Disaster Management Team (RDMT/NDMT) coordination, development and delivery, mentoring, learning and surge/deployment systems, so field and regional teams can make informed decisions and deliver fast, effective, and accountable humanitarian action.

**Requirements include:**

- A University degree in the social sciences, international relations management, or other relevant areas.
- On the job training in emergency response, humanitarian operations management, humanitarian project design, risk management and disaster risk reduction.
- At least 5 years of humanitarian experience, including leading teams working in emergency settings.
- Experience leading, coordinating or supporting humanitarian responses in complex, fragile or rapidly changing contexts. Coaching ability.
- Disaster risk reduction knowledge.
- Strong understanding of emergency relief management, program response, program design, project proposal development and budgeting.
- Experience providing technical support to country teams, including support to humanitarian strategy, response planning, project design, grant proposals and/or capacity strengthening.
- Experience in advising and influencing global technical teams, regional leadership, and national leadership to forward a technical agenda in a complex matrix organization.
- Experience in coordinating/managing field operations and implementing external humanitarian standards, including Sphere, CHS, protection, safeguarding, conflict sensitivity and accountability standards.
- Experience managing or coordinating surge support, deployments, rosters, mentoring or capacity building initiatives.