Humanitarian Response & Technical Support Team Leader

Lead or coordinate emergency assessments, programme design and response management in crisis-affected or recovering contexts. 

Provide technical guidance and quality assurance for large-scale and complex emergency responses in collaboration with the Programme Quality Team. 

Strengthen programme quality, accountability, and good humanitarian practice among country teams and partners. 

Promote learning and the consistent application of humanitarian standards across programmes.  

Ensure skilled personnel are deployed rapidly and effectively to respond to new and ongoing emergencies. 

Support the development of shared technical capacity models with other Caritas agencies operating in the same contexts. 

Deploy to humanitarian responses in the capacity of Country Representative or Head of Programmes as required, including providing management and operational support during large-scale emergencies.  

Lead and support Emergency Response Officers to deliver results in line with CAFOD’s objectives and operational standards.  

Encourage strong performance, accountability, and continuous staff development. 

Represent CAFOD in humanitarian networks, forums, and coordination mechanisms. 

Contribute to humanitarian advocacy and policy initiatives. 

Support fundraising and donor engagement efforts related to humanitarian programming.  

Significant experience partnering with diverse local and international organisations across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. 

Strong understanding of humanitarian programming across multiple thematic areas. 

Builds trusted relationships and empowers diverse stakeholders across geographic and thematic areas, within the development and humanitarian sector and beyond. 

Creates effective working relationships in multicultural team environments. 

Analyses complex problems with insight, draws on learning, and works collaboratively to develop practical solutions. 

Communicates complex or challenging issues clearly, enabling others to understand priorities and take effective action. 

Coaches and supports others to build capability, address challenges, and strengthen performance. 

Sets clear deliverables and milestones, tracks progress and outcomes, and adapts plans in response to learning and changing contexts. 

Leads and contributes to strategic planning, change processes, results-based management, work planning, and reporting. 

Balances competing priorities and coordinates a range of activities to support effective programme delivery in complex environments. 

Brings strong expertise in emergency preparedness and response, alongside a robust understanding of the international humanitarian system. 

Proven successes in working with partner organisations in the delivery of humanitarian programmes and capacity strengthening 

Good financial management skills (including budgeting and reporting) 

High-level interpersonal and communications with the ability to effectively influence and liaise with key stakeholders on behalf of and in line with CAFOD’s principles.  

Ability to quickly establish and maintain partnerships and effective relationships to achieve results in short timeframes  

The ability to work autonomously, be proactive and proven ability to work creatively, innovatively and effectively to make decisions with limited direct supervision.  

Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude.  

Proven experience in implementing security policy/protocols and ability to provide appropriate direction and support to team members in the event of a critical incident 

Demonstrated ability at being flexible and adaptable to changing situations.  

Ability to remain calm while dealing with conflicting priorities and working under pressure.  

Relevant educational background, such as international development, Food Security or other relevant development-related fields.  

Ability to work in Spanish. 

Able to travel overseas for up to 4 weeks at a time, several times a year sometimes at short notice.