Core Humanitarian Standard Co-ordinator

Here at Human Appeal we have an exciting opportunity for a Core Humanitarian Standard Co-ordinator to join our team based in Cheadle, Greater Manchester. We have exciting opportunities that is open to anyone wanting an hourly or a 1-year fixed-term contract. In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £31,025 depending on experience.

Human Appeal is a faith-based charity that aims to abolish poverty by providing humanitarian aid, sustainable development programs and championing advocacy for our beneficiaries worldwide.

As a Core Humanitarian Standard Co-ordinator, the successful candidate will play an integral role in ensuring the organisational and key stakeholder compliance to the Nine Commitments of CHS. This will require working directly with CHS Champions to embed it across internal and external work streams. Reporting to the Quality and MEAL Principal Advisor, the role will monitor and drive departmental improvement plans, develop and deliver training workshops, participate in CHS meetings and lead the internal and external liaison on CHS. The co-ordinator will play a pivotal role in preparing the organisation for independent verification and certification and transitioning current activities to the updated CHS.?

We are ideally looking to appoint somebody immediately to this role and the recruitment is to run on a rolling-basis, it will be closed once a suitable candidate is appointed.

Key duties and responsibilities of the Core Humanitarian Standard Co-ordinator include:

• HA UK, global teams and partners embed and implement CHS principles across operations, policies and procedures
• HA and its partners have strengthened their accountability and quality mechanisms within communities and across programme activities
• ?11 Organisational Responsibilities and Key Actions improvement plans are aligned to the updated CHS
• Training workshops increase understanding of the updated CHS amongst HA UK, global teams and partners
• ?CHS commitment indicators on PSEA are embedded within the safeguarding framework
• HA and its partners are primed for independent verification and certification by HQAI

What we re looking for in our Core Humanitarian Standard Co-ordinator include:

• Ideally degree-educated with a Bachelor s degree in International Development, Social Sciences or a related field
• Minimum of three years in humanitarian or development settings with a focus on quality, accountability and standards
• Extensive knowledge and understanding on CHS
• Experience of applying CHS, Sphere Standards and other humanitarian quality and accountability frameworks
• Possess strong project management and coordination skills to steer work from start to finish
• An experienced communicator able to converse with multiple teams and at different levels
• Proficient in data collection, monitoring and evaluation
• Competent and literate with IT applications
• Culturally sensitive and able to work with diverse teams and in challenging environments

This would be an ideal role for an experienced Core Humanitarian Standard Co-ordinator looking to make a difference in a rewarding role within the Charity Sector!

We are looking to appoint this role ASAP and will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis so for the best chance of success please click apply today to become our Project Coordinator we would love to hear from you.

Disclaimer: Please be aware that due to the anticipated quantity of response, we will only be contacting candidates who are shortlisted to interview stage. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that unfortunately you have been unsuccessful this time.