Regional Emergency Response Advisor (Asia)

Job Summary

The STRIDES Regional Emergency Response Advisor supports outbreak response planning, coordination, and implementation across Asia, ideally bringing prior experience with high-consequence pathogens. The advisor aligns country programs with STRIDES leadership’s direction, tracking and reporting on response efforts while leading coordination with technical, finance, and operations teams to mobilize resources. They develop tools and guidance, and work within established incident management frameworks to strengthen emergency readiness and execution. In addition, this person will manage the creation of knowledge products—reports, technical materials, and conflict-sensitive solutions. Working with project teams and HQ, the advisor leads program evaluations on effectiveness, reviews technical/operational activities, and directs assessment reports across their portfolio. The role also contributes to business development, including pursuing opportunities, capture/proposal leadership, and building partnerships. This position will be based either in Manila, Bangkok, or Jakarta.

Accountabilities

• Leads outbreak response and preparedness activities in alignment with established STRIDES emergency response protocols and in-country incident management systems.
• Manages the coordination of day-to-day response activities across technical, operational, and administrative teams to ensure alignment with response objectives and timelines.
• Oversees the consolidation of response information and manages internal coordination during active outbreaks.
• Leads standardization of response processes across their portfolio of countries, including reporting templates, deployment trackers, and coordination tools.
• Spreadheads continuous improvement of emergency response systems by integrating lessons learned and best practices into tools and guidance.
• Provides project staff with overall technical direction and guidance in line with the project expected outcomes.
• Leads analysis of project implementation to identify areas for improvement and propose appropriate technical strategy and guidelines.
• Manages the collaboration with the research and evaluation team to report on data and assessments.
• Leads the development and dissemination of tools, materials, reports, papers, and intervention for research projects.
• Serves as the authoritative on emergency response and preparedness best practices to assist with implementation.
• Reviews technical work plans and budgets for accuracy and aligned with the STRIDES program and donor goals.

Project Design Implementation

• Mentors and provides technical guidance to junior emergency response staff and partners across the region; may supervise junior technical staff, sub-contractors, and others implementing technical project work.
• With technical oversight, provide technical leadership in design, development, planning, implementation; and capacity- building of specific technical components of projects.
• Creates technical portion of the project plan, within the given resource and financial constraints.
• Directs the day-to-day technical and operational activities of assigned projects, tracking delivery of project outputs and monitoring staff members' LOE (Level of Effort) needs to ensure adequate coverage of resources.
• Coordinates requests from CO (Country Office) for technical assistance.
• Engages in the design, development, planning, and implementation of global-level innovative technical strategies.
• Develops or writes technical briefs, reports, or other necessary materials to facilitate research, best practices, policies, and procedures.
• Leads collaboration with the DTT (Digital Transformation & Technology) team to develop and maintain response tracking systems (e.g., dashboards, trackers, logs) to support situational awareness and decision-making.
• Oversees the adaption and maintenance of tools, templates, SOPs (standard operating procedures), guidance notes, and job aids to support outbreak preparedness and response activities, ensuring implementation is consistent with best practices in the industry/subject and meets client/funder contractual obligations.

Business Development and Client/Funder Support

• Maintains collaborative relationships with donor/client organizations, relevant government agencies, bilateral and other NGOs (non governmental organizations) and consistently maintained and viewed as a knowledgeable resource in their technical area.
• Leads proposal research and development proposal strategies, which consists of directing proposal research, data collection, and strategies.
• Reviews proposal, budgets, and workplans.
• Participate in client / funder meetings and provide technical input, and drafts sponsor reports and presentations.
• Represents the organization and / or Institute to external entities at professional meetings and conferences.

Capacity Building, Training and Supervision

• Develops and implements technical training and capacity building interventions related to emergency response and preparedness.
• Supervises and/or provide technical guidance to staff members locally and in the region.

Operations Management (Finance, HR, etc.)

• Manages the processes, services, planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling of all technical resources for a project.
• Directs efforts to work with the Finance Team to develop and track response budgets, spending forecasts, and cost monitoring in coordination with finance teams.
• Oversees the processing of emergency procurement requests, consultant deployments, and surge staffing needs.
• Ensures the overall project portfolio remains aligned with organizational timelines, technical standards, and donor/client expectations, holding junior technical officers accountable for work plan execution.
• Manages the timelines of multiple projects and budgets, leading the development of donor reports and presentations.
• Proposes and executes solutions to operational resource gaps and constraints.
• Reviews SOPs (standard operating pro