Catholic Agency for Overseas Development Senior Emergency Response Officer Jobs in Kenya

Catholic Agency for Overseas Development Senior Emergency Response Officer Jobs in Kenya

The Senior Emergency Response Officer (SERO) is part of CAFOD's Emergency Response Team (ERT) providing surge capacity, usually in the form of short term leadership, management, coordination or support, to a wide range of new and ongoing humanitarian crises.

Working in partnership is central to CAFOD’s humanitarian response so a large proportion of deployments may be to CAFOD sister agencies or partner organisations.

The nature of surge deployments is varied and terms of reference may request management and coordination or focus on specific areas such as assessments, response options analysis, proposal development, project design, implementation or evaluations.

This position requires technical knowledge of emergency food security, livelihoods and cash transfer programming.

The position will oversee staff with expertise in WASH and Protection Mainstreaming. Inherent in the SERO role is the need for flexibility and an ability to travel at short notice to potentially insecure and remote locations.

Job Scope

CAFOD’s humanitarian response comes before during and after emergencies. Our three core approaches are: