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Emergency Response Roster - Response Director, gb

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Client:

World Vision

Location:

gb, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

21beddb20025

Job Views:

30

Posted:

12.08.2025

Expiry Date:

26.09.2025

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Job Description:

Children’s lives can change in an instant in the wake of war, disasters and humanitarian emergencies. We see how vulnerable they are and how much they need our protection.

Joining our Emergency Response Roster means you can be a part of our response, providing immediate support when disaster strikes.

Here's where you come in:

As a Response Director, you will lead CAT III Global humanitarian response ensuring effective scale up and delivery of humanitarian assistance to affected vulnerable people as required. You will oversee all aspects of the response from strategy to implementation including team management, partner relations, risk management and relations with a wider range of local and international stakeholders for this large-scale response in a complex, fluid and challenging humanitarian context with a high level of global interest and engagement. You will be responsible for ensuring meaningful internal and external collaboration, coordination and engagement with a range of stakeholders to effectively deliver assistance to the most vulnerable children in the affected community.

We are looking for a senior, experienced humanitarian leader with a strong track record in complex crises and fragile contexts, and excellent team leadership, communications, risk and relationship management skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee development & implementation of World Vision humanitarian response strategy and plans.
• Oversee response operations across multiple locations, direct and with/through partners.
• Recruit, retain and manage a unified and effective response team across multiple countries and sites.
• Ensure the response is well resourced, coordinated and communicates effectively with humanitarian actors, governments, donors, media etc.
• Ensure the response is well coordinated with stakeholders across the World Vision Partnership.
• Ensure that security, legal, safeguarding, other key risks and resources are well managed with good stewardship across the response.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• University degree in humanitarian, development, international relations or relevant field. Master’s degree preferred.
• A minimum of 15 years in leadership roles in the humanitarian and development sector, including in major INGOs.
• At least 10 years’ senior management experience in humanitarian responses within complex, fragile and conflict related contexts.
• Excellent communications and relationship management skills.
• Demonstrated understanding of humanitarian principles, standards and best practices.
• Experience in leading a multi-cultural team of professionals.
• Experience working in high pressure, rapid response environments with multiple risks.
• External engagement at senior level with governments and multilateral agencies.
• Effective in written and verbal communication in English. Other UN languages such as French, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, preferred.
• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 70% of the time.
• Work hours are often in excess of normal working hours during difficult periods of the response.
• Responses are often mounted in insecure or natural disaster-prone contexts, which may disrupt normal work patterns and generate staff safety issues.
• Work and housing environments may at times be below normal standards in terms of facilities, equipment, food availability and hygiene.
• Experience in managing multi-sectoral emergency response.
• Understanding of international humanitarian law, and minimum standards particularly the systems, structures and key actors.
• Understanding of key accountabilities in a response (beneficiaries, donors, peers).
• Ability to lead strategic planning processes.
• Strong communication skills (oral and written) with ability to express ideas and concepts clearly and persuasively with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong team leadership skills.
• Emotional intelligence (self-awareness, managing emotions and those of others, remaining calm, dealing with ambiguity and change).
• Ability to express ideas and concepts clearly and persuasively with senior internal and external stakeholders as well as staff.
• Ability to work in coordination with other humanitarian organizations.
• Ability to analyze and make timely decisions in challenging situations in the absence of specific guidance and/or full information.
• Ability to communicate and model positive behaviors that help staff remain resilient and effective in dynamic and high-pressure environments.
• Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) or equivalent relevant security training certificate.