Technical Assistant – Head of Office Career Opportunity – Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO)

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Organisation: Directorate-General
for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: District
Coordinator
About US:
The Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian
Aid Operations (ECHO), formerly known as the European Community Humanitarian
Aid Office, is the European Commission’s department for overseas humanitarian
aid and for civil protection. The European Union has been the second largest
donor of humanitarian assistance since 2000. Together with its Member States,
it is the world’s biggest donor of humanitarian aid, providing over 50% of the
total humanitarian aid in 2009. ECHO-funded projects affect over 120 million
people in 90 countries annually.  In 2013
it provided €1.35 billion for emergency relief.
Job Summary: The Technical Assistant – Head of Office will facilitate
and to maximise the impact of the humanitarian operations financed by the
European Union and of the EU Civil Protection activities in Uganda. The Head of
Office (HoO) is responsible for the supervision of ECHO’s administrative,
policy support and operational activities and for the management of office’s
resources. The incumbent is also responsible for strategic planning of the
office activities and represents ECHO at technical level. The expert will be
required to carry out regular missions to identify and assess humanitarian
needs and to monitor programmes in Uganda. At the request of ECHO Headquarters,
the expert may also be called upon to carry out missions linked to his specific
responsibilities to neighboring countries, to other regions or to Brussels, and
should be prepared to react to a current or evolving crisis in any other region
in the world following a request by DG ECHO Brussels.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience: 
  • The ideal applicant for the ECHO Technical Assistant – Head of Office
    career opportunity must have at least ten years of experience in
    delivering humanitarian assistance and in particular in the following
    domains : – Food Security, refugee and resettlement situations, management
    of multi-sectoral humanitarian aid programmes.
  • At least five years of experience in
    financial and administrative management of field offices of which minimum
    one year outside EU and other industrialized countries.
  • The ideal candidate should have a minimum
    of three years of experience in countries/regions affected by both
    conflict and natural disasters.
  • Excellent command of English is
    compulsory.
  • Language requirements:
    mastering of at least 2 languages: English or French as 1st language;
    French, English, Spanish, Arabic or Russian as 2nd language.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates registered in the DG
ECHO Individual Experts database should submit their applications to echo-experts-jobs@ec.europa.eu
with the subject of the message: 2017-10– TA HoO – Kampala, Uganda with the
following information:
  • Forename:
  • Surname:
  • E- mail:
  • Phone number(s):
  • ID application number (DG ECHO database
    “Individual Experts Online”):
  • Available from (dd/mm/yyyy):
Documents to be attached:
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Motivation Letter
NB: Please note that only
candidates registered in the DG ECHO Individual Experts database can apply: Click Here
Deadline: 18th April 2017
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