Save the Children’s origins lie in emergency response and it has remained central to our work ever since. Our approach integrates our emergency and development work, through the medium of our country programs. With the increasing frequency and severity of emergencies world-wide the organisation is in the process of increasing its capacity to support programs in both sudden onset and chronic emergency situations.
About the crisis The current crisis in the Horn of Africa is not simply about no rain. While pastoralists and agro-pastoralist communities have been the most seriously affected, they traditionally have robust and effective traditional coping strategies for dealing with droughts and environmental stresses. These have been successively eroded by a combination of marginalisation, successive droughts, conflict and socio-economic struggles. Their capacity to cope with shocks such as this drought is critically undermined, and they have been tipped over the edge from chronic vulnerability into crisis through the addition of consecutive failed rains, hugely inflated food prices and aid reduction. The severity of this crisis and the consequent response needs to be understood through the lens of these longer-term structural problems as integral to the overall emergency. About the role You manage complex regional risk reduction / climate change adaptation (CCA)/ resilience projects, as well as provide technical support to countries in the region on risk reduction, adaptation and resilience. The Risk Reduction and Adaptation Manager will also provide guidance to the region and country offices on the development of regional and county level strategic plan/framework. To manage a budget of up to £15m. Your support will play a key role in the expansion of Save the Children programs to increase impact and enable positive change for children.
A full position description can be obtained from the Save the Children website at www.savethechildren.org.au at “Careers with Us”
Please forward your application via email to careers@savethechildren.org.au before COB 12th August 2011. As this is an emergency response position applicants may be contacted and interviewed before the close date. We work with children, communities and governments all over the world and we believe in the right person for the job regardless of where you come from and how you identify yourself. We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to ensuring that only those who are suitable to work with children are considered for these posts. All successful applicants will therefore be required to complete a National Police Check and must sign onto our Child Protection Policy and Code of Conduct.
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