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Key Responsibilities:
Strategy and Leadership:
- Position World Visions as a competent, innovative and effective humanitarian agency by ensuring that the Latin America and Caribbean region responds professionally to all categories of emergencies, and undertakes effective disaster management.
- Develop LACRO HEA's contribution to the LACRO strategic direction and the Partnerships vision for DM2020, using innovative and cutting-edge programming and processes.
- Work across sectors and functions to support strategy and ensure effective disaster management in all areas of WV's work.
- Assess pending disasters through scenario analysis and design and develop preparedness, advocacy, and resourcing action plans.
- Facilitate the establishment and functioning of emergency preparedness and response strategies on the basis of sub-regional country groupings.
- Support and advise the Latin America and Caribbean Region Senior Director of Operations and Regional Leader in the event of Category II and Category III declarations and Protected Humanitarian Responses.
- Work with the resource development unit and the Support offices to ensure effective resourcing of all aspects of disaster management, including innovative new funding opportunities with non-traditional donors.
- Working with National Offices, assess, adopt, and operationalize WV's engagement with a range of contemporary humanitarian principles, international humanitarian standards, conventions, codes of conduct, vulnerable populations, contextual & humanitarian analysis, and conflict issues, at a national level.
- Work closely with other teams for appropriate integration in Latin America and Caribbean Region.
- Working closely with National Directors, the Regional Security Adviser, and OCS, promote appropriate measures to ensure risks are objectively assessed, mitigated, and communicated to staff, especially in medium to high-risk locations.
- Coordinate and supervise the Latin America and Caribbean Region HEA team in areas of policy analysis, communications, and programming.
Operational support:
- Ensure National offices have the technical and managerial capacity to respond to Cat 2 and 3 responses, by using response registers or by provide short term leadership of emergencies.
- Monitor all Latin America and Caribbean HEA projects on a regular basis, noting policy implications, and offering appropriate support to ensure projects are managed according to WVI and international standards.
- Lead the integration of HEA activities with other line ministries (Development and Advocacy) and sectors.
- Ensure that the HEA regional team works collaboratively with National Office HEA teams in providing technical guidance and expert advice to enhance the quality of HEA programs.
- Develop strategic linkages with Support Offices and donors to increase the visibility of WV programs and widen funding base of Latin America and Caribbean Region National Office's in emergency preparedness, response, and disaster risk reduction.
- Leverage emergency response resources including people, budget, and infrastructure to ensure smooth relief operation.
- Contribute to the development of global HEA policies, guidelines, and standards and provide leadership in contextualizing and mainstreaming these within the Latin America and Caribbean Region.
- Lead the development and adapt effective HEA models and strategies in disaster preparedness, mitigation, and response.
- Collaboratively work with National Office, GRRT, and regional HEA team in ensuring smooth management and operational transition after major relief operation.
- Facilitate the development of crisis country clusters for emergency response at sub-regional level.
- Facilitate the monitoring, evaluation, and documentation of HEA responses in NOs.
Technical support/capacity building
- Support capacity building of HEA units at NO level, including technical staff and Learning Centers to build understanding and engagement in disaster management to support ensuring clear goals and accountabilities are established and achieved.
- Lead the Latin America and Caribbean Region HEA team in ensuring that national offices have the knowledge, skills, resources tools, and capacity to maximize mitigation, preparedness, response, and transition at a community level.
- Ensure individuals' performance and development needs are met, and employees are high performing and engaged.
- Engage in NO HEA staff hiring processes.
- Assure that National Offices have a functioning NEPRF in place as per the NEPRG policy guidelines.
- Ensure that Regional Rapid Response Team capa