VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Company: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
The Federation is the world’s largest humanitarian organization providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, religious belief, class or political opinion. The office’s role is to support the Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) in Delivering humanitarian services to the most vulnerable
Position Title: Program Coordinator
Organizational context (where the job is situated in the Organization)
Reporting to the Canadian Red Cross (CRC) Country Representative (CR), the Programme Coordinator (PC) is the CRC staff in Nepal responsible for CRC’s program management and technical support to Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) National Society Development (NSD) and health programming based on NRCS, Red Cross Movement and CRC strategy and priorities. The PC will coordinate directly with the CR to ensure that CRC programs are implemented efficiently and effectively, framed by IO Strategy 2020 (S2020), and CRC’s commitment to deliver in the Last Mile.
CRC partnerships in Nepal began with the arrival of the CRC health ERU (Field Hospital) in response to the April 2015 EQ. CRC supported NRCS, and the RCM, in the emergency response as well as the integrated recovery programming of NRCS, the Earthquake Response Operation (ERO). Partnerships and collaborations are at the core of CRC’s program delivery in Nepal. As such, CRC is engaged in Consortia, multilateral and bilateral projects in Nepal which include partnerships with IFRC, ICRC, and 3 PNS (Norwegian RC, Danish RC and American RC).
CRC is also committed to support NRCS’s long-term health and Disaster Management (DM) programs with a vision to build the institutional capacity of NRCS within Nepal’s national health system. CRC and NRCS also partners with academic institutions in Canada (including Centre for Global Surgery of the McGill University Health Centre), hospitals (including Dhukikhel Hospital and Bir Hospital) and the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in Nepal to deliver long-term health-related programs.
CRC is working closely with NRCS to support health programming based on NRCS priorities and engagement with Red Cross Movement (RCM) partners (IFRC, ICRC and PNS). CRC’s plan over the subsequent 2-year timeframe from April 2018 to March 2020 in accordance with the revised NRCS-CRC MoU and 7th Development Plan (2018-2020).
The Programme Coordinator is based in CRC Country Office in Kathmandu with regular missions to program areas in coordination with NRCS as required.
Job purpose
- The Programme Coordinator forms part of the IFRC/Canadian Red Cross Country Office in Nepal (CRC CO). Her/his overall responsibility, in coordination with CRC delegates in Nepal and CRC staff from Ottawa, is to provide the following:
- Technical and management support to NRCS health and DM programs specific to Red Cross Emergency Clinic (RCEC), Rural Emergency and Trauma Systems Strengthening (RETSS), Reproductive, Maternal Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH), Violence Prevention, Disaster Response Capacity Enhancement (DRCE) and Health Strategy and Operations;
- Shared leadership approach to support NRCS transition from EQ recovery to long term programming, and overall coordination and engagement with RCM partners to facilitate efficiency, impact and localization of NRCS programming; and
- Joint efforts with NRCS and RCM partners to increase programming capacity in health (technical, quality, management) and new programming (resource mobilization / proposal development) as per the NRCS National Health Strategy 2016 – 2020, Health Operational Plan 2018-20 and NRCS Preparedness for Response Plan 2018
Duties applicable to all staff
1. Abide by and work in accordance with the Red Cross and Red Crescent principles
2. Perform any other work-related duties and responsibilities that may not be listed above.
Experience
- A minimum 7 years of professional work in Nepal with bilateral agencies, international NGO and/or development organisations
- A minimum 3 years working within the Red Cross Movement in a management role
Last date to apply: 10th October 2018.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidates are required to submit their application no lateral than 10th of October 2018. Through website.
Detailed Job responsibility for the position can be obtained from the website
Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the selection process.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Nepal Country Office
Red Cross Marga
Tahachal Kathmandu
Phone: 4285843, 4286100
This job announcement was published in The Himalayan Times on 26th September 2018.
