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We have an exciting opening for a Humanitarian Officer to be based in Tearfund's global Disaster Risk Management Team.
This role provides global technical support for the management of new and ongoing humanitarian responses (partner led and direct operations) across Tearfund, with a strong emphasis on coordination and start up. Working alongside the Humanitarian Specialist, the Officer plays a critical role in coordinating emergency appeals and funding applications, liaising with donors, other agencies and internally within Tearfund. Where required, this role may be seconded to work direclty alongside a country team.
The Humanitarian Officer also actively facilitates learning during emergencies, ensuring learning from previous responses is applied in a timely way.
During periods between responses your focus will be:
- assisting regional offices and country teams with contingency planning, preparedness and humanitarian capacity assessment
- ensuring learning around humanitarian response is effectively compiled, disseminated and re-applied across the organisation,
- representing Tearfund to external networks,
- supporting best practice commitments,
- supporting Tearfund's global and regional emergency surge rosters
Are you educated to degree level or equivalent, with proven experience in emergency preparedness and response? Are you an organised person, with a good ability to plan, prioritise and organise multiple work tasks under tight timelines and in close cooperation with multiple stakeholders? Do you enjoy working in a fast paced, agile environment?
If your skills and experience match, then we'd love to hear from you!
This is a global role and can be based in any location where Tearfund has an office where the timezone is within +/- 3hrs of GMT. The role oversees a number of external activities which adhere to UK deadlines, therefore applicants must be able to work UK working hours (9am - 5pm).
All applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs.
The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.
Tearfund is a Christian charity with over 50 years of experience in international development. We believe that poverty is not God’s plan,...
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Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) is a Christian mission organisation using light aircraft to deliver help, hope and healing in over 25 countries. For more than 75 years, MAF aircraft have been overcoming inaccessible terrain transporting mission and development agency staff and delivering urgent aid and medical supplies to transform the lives of remote and isolated communities.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced, and creative Philanthropy Writer to join our team with a focus on the development of relationships with high-net-worth individuals, a wide variety of trusts/foundations and corporate supporters. In this role you will make a key contribution in producing engaging written communications to grow both restricted and unrestricted income.
You will produce impactful and effective publicity materials and brochures. Using MAF’s tools, databases and platforms, including PowerBI, Bynder (media library) you will illustrate written reports with compelling visual support. In addition you will have a key role in researching and writing funding proposals/applications for individuals, trusts and foundations as well as liaising regularly with Relationship Managers to produce tailored reports and communications for individual donors and prospects. There will also be the opportunity for you to participate in a wide range of events to help cultivate new donors.
You will need to be educated to degree level with a focus on English communications/marketing. Recent experience of researching complex issues and financial information to produce compelling written reports is essential, as is multi-tasking, managing deadlines and maintaining attention to detail.
While this role is base at the MAF UK Offices in Folkestone, Kent, we are open to potential hybrid working in line with our flexible working policy, the needs of the business, the requirements of the role and your location. This will be discussed at interview.
Our working hours are at least 36 hours per week, with 1 hour for lunch daily unpaid. Hours should be agreed with line manager.
Terms and Benefits
We are happy to offer the successful candidate:
· Annual leave entitlement of 22 days per year and 8 paid public holidays per year
· Pension Scheme: Non-contributory (10% of salary)
· Probation and Notice Period: 3 months each
· A salary of £33,500 per annum
Deadline for applications: Friday, 5th April 2024 at 12noon.
Please note it is our hope to be able to conduct interviews as follows:
· Informal introductory on-line interview 12th April
· Formal face to face interview at the Folkestone office 24th April
MAF is a unique Christian charity using aircraft to deliver help and hope across the developing world. MAF transport patients, relief workers, ...
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