Danish Red Cross (DRC) is looking for an experienced humanitarian to join our health team and work to help people affected by disasters and crises live healthy lives and access quality essential health services.

About the position and the assignments

The specific purpose of the position is to provide strategic guidance, expertise and support to health in emergencies operations, in line with needs and established technical standards, protocols and good practices. The technical support to response operations will be provided both from DRC HQ and through the deployment to the field, often at a short notice.

The Global Health Advisor will be a part of the International Department of DRC and will report directly to the Head of Technical Quality & Impact (TQI) Unit on overall HR issues and will have a technical reference line to the Health Lead for coordination of tasks and technical aspects of work. When providing support to DRC-supported operations in specific countries, the Global Health Advisor will report to the DRC Country Managers on security and other issues pertaining to the mission in point, and s/he must coordinate closely and flexibly with the guidance of the country team.

The Job is posted in Copenhagen.