United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Humanitarian Reporting Officer

CROWN AGENTS

****VACANCY****

****Job title: Humanitarian Reporting Officer****

****Location: CHASE OT, London****

****Type of contract: Permanent****

****Salary: £28,190 per annum****

****Application deadline: 18^th October 2015****

****Our business****

The Conflict, Humanitarian & Security Department’s Operations Team (CHASE OT) is contracted through Crown Agents by the Department of International Development (DFID) and the Stabilisation Unit (SU) to provide support services and an operational team delivering advice and assistance on humanitarian disasters and emergencies.

****Role and responsibilities include:****

• Provide humanitarian information management and reporting during rapid onset humanitarian crises. Specifically: Develop and utilise sources to provide information on caseload, coverage and gaps in order to highlight the needs of the most vulnerable across all relevant sectors.
• Be familiar with DFID policy, specific response strategy and utilise contacts for information gathering.
• Provide reporting (and analysis) of evolving situations to enable humanitarian advisors to have access to information required for determining humanitarian programming.
• Provide information products as appropriate to inform DFID officials, officials from other UK government departments; and input to briefings to politicians including at Cabinet and Prime Ministerial level.
• Survey and monitor key information networks, proactively communicating, advising and assisting CHASE’s disaster response capability.
• Undertake research, analysis and reporting of specific aspects of humanitarian emergencies and affairs when required.
• Develop knowledge of international response architecture and humanitarian response operations to provide programming support to DFID/CHASE.
• Provide administrative operational support to DFID/CHASE emergency engagements and response assisting monitoring and record keeping.
• To support and learn from the Humanitarian Advisers and Humanitarian Affairs Officers.

Qualification, skills and experience

• This post requires relevant qualification at degree level or equivalent
• Proven research and analytical skills and experience of surveying and monitoring key information networks.
• Developing and utilising multiple sources to provide information, and developing information products.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills developed for the DFID environment on the job.

All applicants must have the right to work in the UK, we will not be able to apply for or sponser Work Visa's on behalf of the candidates.

Please note: Due to the high number of applications only successful applicants will be contacted.

Application process:

Please go directly to the Crown Agents webpage to apply for this role.

http://www.crownagents.com/jobs/permanent-vacancies/detail/humanitarian-reporting-officer