RedR Register members provide UN agencies and international NGOs with surge capacity for rapid response to urgent humanitarian needs in natural disasters and conflict situations.  The work is generally relief rather than development focused, although many relief programs include a transition and reconstruction phase.  Some deployments are to ongoing conflict-related humanitarian situations. 

Deployments are usually short term.  They can vary in length from 2 weeks to 6 months.  Very short assignments are usually for rapid needs assessment or to set up first-flight accommodation, office, communication and transport facilities for an emergency response team.  Longer assignments are usually part of a transition and reconstruction program.

In the field, Register members carry out a wide range of tasks:

• emergency needs assessment;
• setting up emergency facilities to meet urgent humanitarian needs;
• providing logistics support to emergency teams (communications, transport, accommodation, facilities);
• project planning, contract management and reporting;
• staff training and capacity building with local partners and government personnel;
• community mobilisation and social services;
• humanitarian coordination (cluster meetings, liaising with government/agencies/NGOs);
• humanitarian protection and advocacy; and
• reconstruction or rehabilitation of shelter and other infrastructure.

Register members work in a wide range of professional/technical fields.  We have developed generic and specific Terms of Reference (TORs) to indicate the kinds of roles and responsibilities taken on by RedR Register members in the field.  You can click on any of the roles listed below for a one page job description.

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