Humanitarian Advisor - Fragile & Conflict Affected States (Maternity Cover)

About Trócaire

Trócaire is an International NGO. We work with local partners in the world's most at-risk communities and with people in Ireland to tackle the underlying causes of poverty and injustice and respond to the crises they create. Together we bring about positive and lasting change for a just world. Trócaire works in up to 20 countries across Africa, Asia, Central America and the Middle East. We work towards five goals:

• Promote Access to Justice;
• Achieve Climate & Environmental Justice;
• Ensure Women & Girls' Protection, Voice & Influence;
• Save Lives and Protect Human Dignity and
• Mobilise the Public on the island of Ireland to achieve Global Justice.

Our work is rooted in Catholic Social Teaching and in our values of Solidarity, Courage, Participation, Perseverance and Accountability.

Trócaire's humanitarian programmes are largely implemented in partnership with local civil society and faith-based organisations. Our humanitarian response programmes include Food Security and Livelihood (FSL), WASH, Protection, Health, Nutrition as well as CASH as a cross cutting sectoral intervention.

Humanitarian response is a key cornerstone of Trócaire's Strategic Plan 2021 - 2025, aiming to grow in scale over the period, particularly building on our niche in Humanitarian Protection. This position as a Humanitarian advisor will have a high profile in supporting the implementation of high-quality humanitarian programming in Trócaire's programmes in Fragile and Conflict Affected States advising relevant staff and partners at all stages of the programme cycle, including planning, assessment, design, implementation and M&E in line with international quality and accountability standards for humanitarian interventions. This may include providing surge capacity and/or taking the lead in humanitarian response programmes.

The priority countries for this role are DRC, Myanmar, Lebanon and Syria and the post holder is expected to travel up to 3 months a year.

The role will report to Humanitarian Manager - Operational and is based on a Specified Purpose Contract to cover a maternity leave. The role can be based in Ireland or UK.

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