View Vacancy - Humanitarian Advisor

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Programme Roles)
Policy

As Humanitarian Advisor, you will lead on the UK’s engagement on humanitarian issues in Kenya.  You will have direct responsibility for a) delivery of our humanitarian programme portfolio and b) providing technical expertise on humanitarian policies including on refugees, emergency response, resilience and climate change-related disasters (including the ongoing drought). You will establish and maintain strong relationships with relevant GoK officials and humanitarian partners in Kenya.

You will be a member of the BHC’s Human and Social Development Group which includes an education lead, a health advisor and a programme-delivery hub.  You will also have close engagement with other parts of the UK mission in Nairobi, including with people working on climate and environment, security and stability, science and technology.  

You will report to the G7 Humanitarian, Resilience and Inclusion Lead for whom you will deputise as needed and work closely with our Social Development Advisor.

·         Experience at senior level of management / implementation within an NGO, UN or Red Cross organisation.

·         Significant experience in undertaking humanitarian risks assessment and analysis

·         Experience of planning and managing humanitarian operations

·         Master’s degree or equivalent postgraduate qualification in a relevant technical area. Strong demonstration of the competences through relevant experience may substitute for a Masters

Knowledge and experience gained working in or on Northern Kenya and/or drought prone areas, fragile and conflict affected environments.

Technical Skills -

This role is a Humanitarian expert role. The successful candidate will have a demonstrable track record of delivering humanitarian outcomes at expert level through strong capability in the humanitarian technical competencies (further details in the FCDO Humanitarian technical competency framework 2022).Specifically, we will be testing at sift and interview technical competencies in:

PRIORITISE: effective humanitarian assistance to people in greatest need   

REFORM: Humanitarian theory, architecture and system effectiveness   

PROTECT civilians, IDPs, refugees, marginalised groups incl. women and girls and promote and maintain humanitarian access to these groups. 

PREVENT and anticipate future shocks and rebuild resilience in protracted and recurring crises 

 Further information on technical humanitarian competencies can be found at the following link:FCDO Humanitarian technical competency framework 2022  

Desirable qualifications, skills and experience  

·         Kenya specific experience

·         In-depth knowledge of food, nutrition, livelihoods, resilience, climate change etc.

Experience of working on policy development helpful     

 

Language requirements:

Language: English

Level of language required: Expert

Making Effective Decisions, Seeing the Big Picture, Working Together
6 January 2023
Senior Executive Officer (SEO)
Full-time, Permanent
35
Africa
Kenya
Nairobi
British High Commission
1
KES
6 141 923.97 per annum
1 February 2023

Resources managed (staff and expenditure):

Approx £10 million programme spend per year.

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