Disaster Management Delegate (Mobile Surge)

Join the world's largest humanitarian network.

The Swedish Red Cross is part of the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, the world’s largest humanitarian network. The Red Cross/Red Crescent is working to improve the lives of vulnerable people before, during and after disasters and emergencies. We support people whoever they are, wherever they are.

Disaster Management Delegate (Mobile Surge)

Do you want to be at the forefront of international disaster response and help communities affected by crises around the world? The Swedish Red Cross is looking for two Disaster Management Delegates (Mobile Surge) to join our Global Response Unit.

This is a unique opportunity to combine international emergency deployments with preparedness, capacity strengthening, and operational support. As part of the world's largest humanitarian network, you will play a key role in strengthening disaster response operations together with Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

The positions are project-funded through the Sida Humanitarian Programme and run for 24 months.

About the Position

As a Disaster Management Delegate (Mobile Surge), you will be part of the Swedish Red Cross' surge capacity for international emergencies. Approximately 50% of your working time is expected to be spent on deployments to humanitarian crises and disasters, often at short notice.

You may serve in leadership, coordination, or technical support roles during emergency operations and work closely with local Red Cross and Red Crescent partners, IFRC teams, communities, and humanitarian actors.

Key responsibilities include:

• Deploying to international disaster and crisis operations as Operations Manager, Field Coordinator, Response Coordinator, Team Leader, or other operational roles.
• Supporting the planning, implementation, monitoring, and adaptation of emergency response activities.
• Strengthening quality, accountability, and coordination in humanitarian operations.
• Contributing to operational analysis, reporting, and decision-making.
• Supporting community engagement, protection, inclusion, and accountability in emergency responses.
• Developing preparedness tools, guidance, and operational procedures.
• Delivering trainings, workshops, and simulation exercises.
• Supporting organizational learning, evaluations, and capacity strengthening.
• Mentoring delegates, volunteers, and surge personnel.
• Providing technical advice and support to humanitarian programmes and partners.

The position is based in one of Swedish Red Cross’s existing field offices and requires a high level of flexibility, adaptability, and readiness for deployment.

About You

We believe you are motivated by humanitarian action and thrive in dynamic international environments where no two days are the same.

To succeed in this role, you bring:

• Experience from humanitarian operations, disaster management, emergency response, public health, WASH, or related fields.
• Experience within the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
• Experience working in international and multicultural environments.
• Experience coordinating activities, projects, programmes, or emergency operations.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills.
• Good analytical ability and a solution-oriented approach.
• Excellent English, both written and spoken.
• Ability and willingness to deploy internationally on short notice for extended periods.
• Valid international driving license, with the ability to drive a manual transmission.

As a person, you are calm under pressure, adaptable, accountable, and comfortable taking initiative in rapidly changing situations. You are able to build trust across cultures and contribute positively to diverse teams.

The following are considered assets:

• Experience as an Operations Manager, Field Coordinator, Team Leader, or similar emergency response role.
• Technical expertise in Emergency Health, WASH, Protection, Gender and Inclusion, or Community Engagement and Accountability.
• Experience facilitating trainings, mentoring, or capacity strengthening.
• Security management or risk assessment experience.
• HEAT training or equivalent security training.
• Additional language skills, particularly Arabic, French, Spanish, or Swedish.
• Experience from different cultural and socioeconomic contexts that contribute to broader perspectives and approaches.

More About Us

The Swedish Red Cross is part of the world's largest humanitarian network. Together, we work to prevent and alleviate human suffering, protect life and health, and strengthen resilience before, during, and after crises.

Within the Global Response Unit, you will join a team that supports emergency operations worldwide and contributes to preparedness, learning, and operational excellence across the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Additional Information

Deployments typically last one month or longer. The role requires frequent travel, including to disaster-affected, remote, and potentially insecure environments. It may involve physically and psychologically demanding working conditions. Start date by agreement.

How We Recruit

We welcome your application by November 26th, 2026.

Please feel free to contact the hiring manager Roger Alonso Morgui at roger.alonso@redcross.se if you have any questions about the role.

The Swedish Red Cross strives to be an inclusive organisation with staff who contribute to diversity in terms of perspective, experience and background. We believe this makes us more relevant. That is why we actively seek to recruit people from diverse ethnic and social backgrounds, with different gender identities and expressions, faiths, ages, abilities and sexual orientations.

Our recruitment process begins with an initial selection based on an established job profile, followed by interviews and, in some cases, online tests, as well as background checks and reference checks.

As the Swedish Red Cross is a member of the “Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct’ to protect our sector from sexual abuse, we ask specific questions on this matter to your referees. Final candidates may also be screened against EU and UN sanctions lists.

Please feel free to visit our careers page to find out more about the Swedish Red Cross. There you will also find information about our terms and conditions, our culture.

Please note that we only consider applications made through our website. We kindly decline any offer of services from recruitment agencies or consultants.