Trinidad and Tobago: Senior Officer, National Society Development

Job Purpose

Under the direction of the Head of Country Cluster Support Team (“the HoCCST”), the key role of the National Society Development Senior Officer is to support the 13 Caribbean National Societies in updating and modernizing their way of operating by primarily addressing internal pressures related to the areas of National Society leadership, integrity, accountability, development strategy, financial sustainability and internal reforms. This will include related development areas such as Learning and Innovation, FDRS and Volunteering and Youth Development, Reference centres such as CADRIM, as prescribed in the Development operational plan and will liaise closely with other departments and technical units including those mentioned above and Partnership & Relationship Development, Communication, Legal Advocacy and Auxiliary Role and Planning, Monitoring & Reporting as appropriate to ensure that their actions contribute to the development of the National Societies. The Senior Officer keeps a lateral technical line to the National Society Development Regional Coordinator in Panama.

Education

• Relevant university degree or equivalent in social science, development studies, quality and organizational management, or business development
• Relevant post graduate qualification / technical training (or equivalent experience) - Preferred

Experience

• 5+ years working in international relief and development context; experience in supporting or managing capacity development, health and disaster risk management programmes
• 5+ years proven experience in successfully facilitating organizational development processes.3+ years’ experience working in a membership or volunteer-based organization - preferred
• Proven successful experience in strategy development, implementation and monitoring
• Proven successful experience in resource mobilization, partnership development and institutional communication
• Experience in the application of the various Federation tools including VCA, National Society self-assessment, YABC, CAS and Operational Alliance concepts - preferred
• Experience as a volunteer in the RCRC - preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Languages**

• Excellent consulting and management skills
• Professional credibility, able to work effectively at all levels across the organisation
• Sound experience in innovating, contributing to a learning culture, sharing knowledge and new approaches to engaging partners.
• Ability to work within a multi-cultural, multilingual, multidisciplinary environment
• Good networking, representational, communication and negotiation skills.
• Results oriented and demand driven individual, entrepreneurial, ability to lead in unprecedented and/or ambiguous situations.
• Proven good judgment and ability to work with complete integrity and confidentiality
• High degree of discretion, tact and sensitivity in dealing with internal and external clients and stakeholders at all levels.

Languages

• Fluently spoken and written English
• Good command of another IFRC official language (Spanish) or a language relevant in the rest of the Caribbean countries of the region (i.e., French) - preferred

Interested applicants should visit: http://www.ifrc.org/en/who-we-are/working-with-us/current-vacancies/job-description/?id=5695 for the full job description as well as for submitting their application

Applicants will need to send their applications together with a letter of motivation no later than the closing date. In order for us to assure a proper comparative evaluation of your application for this vacancy and to enable us to consider your profile against other similar current and future vacancies, we ask that you submit your application taking into account the following:

• Please note that the selected candidate will be hired through a national contract of Trinidad; therefore only nationals of the country or those holding a valid work permit or legal status will be considered for the post;
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by Federation policies, procedures, plans and applicable national laws;
• The closing date is midnight Geneva time.
• Only those candidates shortlisted for interviews will be notified.
• The position will be based in Trinidad and Tobago