Technical Advisor II – Emergency Response and Recovery

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Offer technical advice, guidance, and support pertaining to program design and implementation, with an emphasis on Emergency Response and Recovery.

• Act as the emergency focal point for country programs across the Latin America and Caribbean Region.

• Provide immediate surge support to enhance program quality, management, and leadership capacity during humanitarian responses.

• Advise country programs and partners on humanitarian funding opportunities while aiding in proposal design and development.

• Support emergency program quality, management, knowledge management, capacity strengthening, and learning initiatives.

• Contribute to the development of region-wide and agency-wide Emergency Response and Recovery strategies, standards, tools, and best practices.

• Deliver technical solutions both remotely and on-site for strategic planning, program design, implementation standards, partnerships, and monitoring and evaluation.

• Assume acting emergency leadership roles and assist in the establishment or management of emergency field offices, teams, and relief operations during deployments.

• Aid in the technical design of large or complex proposals, monitoring systems, indicators, and donor-aligned approaches.

• Create and conduct capacity strengthening, training, workshops, mentoring, and coaching for staff and partners.

• Enhance partnerships with local organizations.

• Gather and evaluate program data, assess projects, measure impact, and disseminate lessons learned and best practices.

• Maintain connections with donors, peer organizations, research institutions, and other partners.

• Represent CRS and partners at humanitarian cluster, donor, coordination, and international cluster meetings.

• Advocate for the health and wellbeing of CRS and partner emergency staff.

• Oversee staff.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in International Development, International Relations, or a related field is required.

• At least eight years of relevant international work experience in an advisory or management capacity with increasing responsibilities.

• Minimum of three years of experience in emergency response programming.

• Prior experience in providing technical assistance and successfully developing proposals for external donor funding is necessary.

• Proficiency in written and spoken English, Spanish, and French is required.

• Experience working in the LACRO region is preferred.

• Familiarity with humanitarian principles, standards, and systems is essential.

• Understanding of major emergency donor design requirements and regulations, including those from U.S. Government, EU/ECHO, and UN agencies.

• Competence in security protocols and managing emergency programs in insecure environments.

• Capability to collaborate with local partner organizations.

• Ability to operate in diverse cultural contexts and in psychologically and physically demanding environments.

• Knowledge of ICT, information management, data visualization, analysis, Power BI, SharePoint, and ICT4D applications.

• Application of principles in risk management, accountability to affected populations, safe and dignified programming, and safeguarding.

• Experience in high-risk disaster and conflict zones.

• Experience initiating or managing large-scale asset transfer programs utilizing cash, voucher, and in-kind modalities.

• Familiarity with supply chain, HR, and finance operations management.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office, web conferencing applications, information and budget management systems, and knowledge-sharing networks.

• Experience in business development, project design, proposal development, and technical writing.

• Experience in mentoring, coaching, facilitation, and adult-learning training.

• Experience in program monitoring and evaluation, data collection, data analysis, and data presentation.

• Experience networking with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based civil society partners.

• Strong strategic, analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking skills.

• Excellent written, oral, presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching abilities.

• Must be willing and able to travel up to 50% of the time, for up to six months each year.

• Must be capable of living and working in challenging and stressful environments and serve wherever agency needs require.

• Must have legal authorization to work in the location where the position is based.

• Required pre-employment medical clearance for roles that necessitate residence or frequent travel outside the home country.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Life insurance

• Vision insurance

• Generous retirement savings plan

• Collaborative, mission-driven work culture

• Benefits packages for candidates employed outside the U.S. based on the country of employment/in-country office