Regional Emergency Coordinator (2 Post) Job Vacancies: CAFOD International

1) Horn and East Africa

(2) West Africa and Great Lakes

Contract: 3 years Accompanied

Salary: £32,148 p.a to £35,663 p.a

Closing date: 21st June 2009

Wherever disaster strikes – from Darfur to Sri Lanka, from Mexico to Pakistan, from Gaza to Zimbabwe – CAFOD is present, before, during, and after the emergency.

As Regional Emergencies Coordinator you will be responsible for CAFOD’s emergency response, humanitarian programming and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) within the region.

You will provide strategic leadership and work with senior staff to ensure CAFOD has a coherent response to humanitarian emergencies that complies with the highest international standards.

You will be an experienced international aid professional with proven and significant senior management experience in operational emergency response programmes and also with a strong and sympathetic knowledge of working with partners and alongside community based organisations. You will be an inspirational leader, a strategic thinker, and a good communicator.

We are recruiting for 2 posts. One to cover our Horn and East Africa region and the other for West Africa and Great Lakes. The post holder for West Africa and the Great Lakes will need to be a fluent French Speaker. Both posts will be based in the region covered.

CAFOD is an equal opportunities employer.

Recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to child protection.

CAFOD is the official development and relief agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and part of the Caritas Internationalis Confederation.

We are only able to short list on the basis of application forms. Please obtain a form by visiting www.cafod.ofg.uk/jobs/ or emailing: humanitarianjobs @ cafod.org.uk quoting ref IREC. Please state clearly in your application which post you are interested in. Closes 21 June 2009.

CAFOD is an equal opportunities employer.

Recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to child protection.

CAFOD is the official development and relief agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and part of the Caritas Internationalis Confederation.