Disaster and Emergency Program Coordinator
Act for Peace, Australia
Job Description
- Act for Peace is a dynamic humanitarian aid and development agency
- Generous Workplace Benefits;
- Be part of an experienced and friendly team of professionals
- Permanent full-time
- Location: Flexible
About the role
Act for Peace is looking for someone to join our Partnerships and Programs team to provide day to day leadership and specialist support to staff and partners by coordinating our disaster preparedness amp; emergency response programs.
The Disaster amp; Emergency Program Coordinator (‘DEPC’) plays a key role in providing day to day specialist support to staff and partners undertaking disaster preparedness amp; emergency response activities where Act for Peace supports programming.
If you are motivated to help others affected by conflict, disaster and displacement and enjoy working in a small team in the international aid and development sector as part of a global network of professionals we want to hear from you.
About Act for Peace
Founded by the Australian Council of Churches (NCCA), and inspired by the example of Jesus, we are a diverse collection of churches, Christians and many other people, united by the belief that we are all human, and we should love our neighbours as ourselves. Yet right now, we live in a world of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Divisions are deepening, conflicts are escalating, and climate inaction is placing lives in peril. It means every day, more of us around the world are forced from our homes by violent conflict and disaster.
And when the world should be opening its arms, it’s turning its back. Rejected and exposed in a divided world, people displaced by conflict or disaster are caught in a devastating limbo, facing restrictions and barriers at every turn as they seek safety and strive to rebuild their lives.
At the heart of our work is a powerful conviction: to create a just and peaceful society, we must work together. It’s both the right thing to do, and the only thing that will work.
This is why Act for Peace exists. To bridge cultural, political, and geographical divides, to back displaced people to reclaim control of their lives and meet urgent needs. To create, together, a world where people uprooted by conflict and disaster have a place to belong. To act, together, for peace.
OUR VISION: A world where everyone belongs
OUR PURPOSE: To create, together, a world where people uprooted by conflict and disaster have a safe place to belong.
For more information about Act for Peace, including our principles and policies, please visit our website www.actforpeace.org.au
About the Partnerships and Programs Department
The Partnerships and Programs Department (PPD) supports partners and programs by incorporating organisational, programmatic and technical advice, training and capacity building, program effectiveness and donor grant management. The Department works closely with other Departments within Act for Peace to ensure the development and implementation of relevant policy, advocacy, and fundraising initiatives and to ensure our work is effective and accountable. The Department pursues an ongoing learning and development focus which is designed to continue improvement across our work. All work responds to our protection framework and strong quality and accountability principles.
Please upload a copy of your resume and a covering letter detailing how you meet the selection criteria with your application.
Requirements
Full details including selection criteria can be found in the Candidate Information Pack which you can download here.
Please apply online by clicking the apply button below.
Please upload a copy of your CV and covering letter detailing how you meet the selection criteria with your application.
Deadline for applications: 23:59, 14 January 2023
Please contact our Senior Program Manager Resilience amp; Emergency at for further information. Thank you for your interest in the position.
Act for Peace takes the prevention of sexual misconduct, fraud and harassment, and child protection seriously. As part of our Child Safeguarding Policy, employment is conditional upon the outcome of an Australian Federal Police Background check, as well as an equivalent police background check for any country in which the applicant has lived for more than 12 months during the last five years and for each country of citizenship. A working with children check may also be required. Strict adherence to our Code of Conduct, Child Safeguarding Policy and the Privacy Policy is mandatory.
For our full Policies set please see: http://www.actforpeace.org.au/our-policies