Profession humanitarian advisor

Humanitarian advisors ensure strategies to reduce the impact of humanitarian crises on a national and/or international level. They provide professional advice and support and this in collaboration with different partners.

Personality Type

• Enterprising / Conventional

Skills

• Develop professional network

  Reach out to and meet up with people in a professional context. Find common ground and use your contacts for mutual benefit. Keep track of the people in your personal professional network and stay up to date on their activities.

• Work in crises areas

  Support people in fragile and conflict affected environments such as in developing countries.

• Own management skills

  Propose program priorities and strategies and have the ability to organize national and/or international meetings.

• Use communication techniques

  Apply techniques of communication which allow interlocutors to better understand each other and communicate accurately in the transmission of messages.

• Identify emerging issues in humanitarian area

  Recognize arising problems and trends in a proactive way on a national, regional or international level in order to respond rapidly.

• Write work-related reports

  Compose work-related reports that support effective relationship management and a high standard of documentation and record keeping. Write and present results and conclusions in a clear and intelligible way so they are comprehensible to a non-expert audience.

• Provide humanitarian advice

  Seek to establish or improve human welfare by giving advice.

• Tolerate stress

  Maintain a temperate mental state and effective performance under pressure or adverse circumstances.

• Manage humanitarian aid

  Plan and provide assistance and help in order to respond to humanitarian crises.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB