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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.

   
Built EnvironmentLogistics/CommunicationsProtection/Health/Social Services
Civil EngineerLogisticianHumanitarian Protection Officer 
Roads, Bridges and Airfields EngineerSite/Facilities/Camp ManagerProtection Officer - Internal Displacement 
Structural EngineerWarehouse Manager Child Protection Officer 
Shelter Expert - ReconstructionFleet Manager Community Services Officer
Geotechnical EngineerWorkshop Manager/MechanicPsycho-social Support Specialist
Physical Planner - ReconstructionField LogisticianEmergency Education Officer 
Site Planner/Shelter - Refugee campsProcurement/Supply OfficerPublic Health Officer
Water and Sanitation EngineerLogistics CoordinatorEnvironmental Health Officer
Water Supply Engineer Air Operations OfficerEpidemilogist
Hydrogeologist/HydrologistAir Cargo Planning OfficerHIV Community Education Specialist
Sanitation EngineerAir Traffic ControllerHumanitarian Affairs Officer
Environmental Management OfficerInformation and Communication Technology (ICT) Officer Reports Officer
Electrical Engineer->Radio Telecoms Officer->Public Information Officer
Electrician->Data Communications OfficerMass Information Officer
Electrical Power/Generator Specialist ->IT Systems OfficerRapid Needs Assessment Specialist
Renewable Power SpecialistGIS Specialist Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist