Vacancy Announcement at Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS)
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) would like to invites competent and interested candidates for the following positions.
Position 1: Light Vehicle Driver
Key performance Areas:
- Checks the vehicle for oil gauges, tires, fuel and water and ensures that the vehicle is in a proper functioning order;
- Transports staff and volunteers to different ERCS operation locations; Drives passenger and light vehicles to provide transport service to staff members and guests and to transport packages and other light loads as instructed;
- Keeps the motor vehicle in good running order and carries out minor breakdown maintenances and repairs;
- Keeps a record of departure, arrival, mileage covered and fuel consumed and other pertinent data records as per the internal control policy and procedure in place;
- Dusts, washes and cleans the vehicle he/she is entrusted with; Gets the motor vehicle washed, lubricated, inspected and maintained regularly;
- Ensures at all times that there is enough fuel in the tank and checks on the level of oil and water and does refilling as needed;
- ascertains that all tools and other accessories for the vehicle are handy and functional;
- Complies with traffic regulations and time schedules;
- Replaces flat tires, spare parts andets them repaired;
- makes sure that the carloads are within permissible limit;
- gets his/her driving license renewed as per regulations;
- Reports malfunctions or defects beyond his/her ability on the motor vehicle to superior for corrective actions;
- Assists in inspecting whether vehicles are properly repaired; gets the vehicle inspected annually;
Work Unit: – DRM
Terms of employment: – Contract for 11 months
Job Requirements
Qualification Requirements:
TVET Level II completed/10th grade completed and 3rd Grade Driving license or equivalent and 4/6 years driving work experience.
Workplace: Addis Ababa
Deadline: April 15, 2023
Position 2: Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR) Division Manager
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plans, directs, coordinates and controls disaster preparedness and response programs/ projects of the Society;
- Forming and managing national disaster response teams, capacity building, prepositioning relief items at strategic locations, identifying and availing disaster management devices, etc;
- Participates in designing or revising disaster risk management policy, procedure and strategy to align with pertinent policies of the Federation of the Movement and the Government, and to accommodate contingencies;
- Initiate and participate on projects /programs formulation on prioritized intervention areas of disaster preparedness and response in consultation with concerned bodies and coordinates implementation upon approval;
- Ensures that disaster preparedness and response programs and projects of the Society are responsive to the needs of the most vulnerable;
- Tackles problems and handles issues referred to him/her from branches and Emergency preparedness and response staff of the Society;
- Coordinates logistical capacity building humanitarian operations in preparation for disaster prone areas response of drought, flood, hailstorm, landslides and other natural and manmade disasters in the country in partnership with stakeholders within and outside the Movement;
- Gathers and consolidates information before an outbreak of disaster in a given area based on the preliminary assessment of branches and government Humanitarian Response Declaration , prepares reports on the extent of the disaster, and assesses the type of assistance required and the availability of material necessary for averting or overcoming the disaster;
- Integrates the activities of providing relief supplies, and recovery ,rehabilitation and reconstruction activities in collaboration with Disaster Risk Reduction department ;
- Supervises and leads need assessment missions during slow onset disasters on type of assistance required, availability of assistance materials in the area, type of intervention by the Society, etc;
- Follows up and ensures that financial commitments of funding agents of disaster preparedness and response programs/projects are timely released ,transferred and used as per commitments;
- Organize and prepare reports on the performance progresses of national Emergency response management
- Take part the management of the National Emergency Operation Center (EOC) to enrich with updated data in carrying out an informed decision and action on emergency preparedness, response and recovery functions and rollout to branches;
- Collects and compiles disaster information at national level and shares with branches to have adequate information for preparedness like early warning, contingency planning and timely response to reduce the impact of disasters
- Facilitate the activities of providing relief items, developing or rehabilitating infrastructures to disaster victims in the aftermaths of disaster in coordination with concerned work unit
- Facilitates the budget transfer to implementers of disaster preparedness and response programs and projects as per schedule and demand; performance progress and budget utilization of program/project activities;
- Ensures that disaster preparedness and response accomplishments of the Society are kept recorded, timely communicated and the database thereof properly managed;
- Facilitates report preparation and submission of branches on progresses of disaster preparedness and response and reports to donor organizations as per commitments;
- Represents the Society and participates in experience sharing and related forums on matters of disaster preparedness and response as per delegation;
- Meet with public safety officials, private companies, and the general public to get recommendations regarding emergency response plans.
- Organize emergency response training programs and exercises for staff, volunteers, and other responders.
- Prepares and Submits EPR projects progress reports timely and as per commitment to partner organizations and Director for Disaster Risk Management of the Society;
- Provides coaching and mentoring to subordinates and team members on program quality standards, management quality procedures and EPR best practices
- Participates in coordination and task force meetings, and related forums on matters of emergency preparedness and response sector
- Create conducive working atmosphere for staffs and develop team synergy;
- Ensure promotion of culture of nonviolence and peace is mainstreamed in all EPR programs/projects
- Take part in designing and implementation of promotion of culture of non-violence and peace activities for ERCS in vulnerable and conflict-impacted areas
- Performs other related duties and responsibilities of the disaster preparedness and response programs as assigned by the Director, Disaster Risk Management.
Work Unit: – Emergency Preparedness & Response Division
Reports to: – DRM Director
Job Requirements
Qualification Requirements:
Second/First Degree in Disaster Risk Management, Management, Economics, Development or Agriculture Economics, Rural & Local Development Studies, Public Health, Environmental Health, Environmental Science, Social Work, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Food Security and Livelihood and
Work Experience: 8/10 years related work experience, out of which 2/4 years in senior managerial position(s).
Workplace: Addis Ababa
Deadline: April 15, 2023
How to Apply
We invite candidates meeting the required qualifications to fill out the employment application form
With the indicated link https://ee.humanitarianresponse.info/x/IyUTlyf1 before the closing date of this announcement on April 15, 2023.
Please note that we ONLY consider those who filled online application form. We regret to inform that we do not accept CV at this stage.
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