Volunteers – STS Fung-Wong Emergency Response, Cagayan, Isabela, and Aurora

Position: Volunteers – STS Fung-Wong (local name Uwan) Emergency Response

Location: Cagayan, Isabela and Aurora provinces

Reports to: Project Manager, Project Officer

Duration: 15 days (within November-December 2025, subject to project award and funding)

About RI:     Relief International is a leading non-profit organization working in 15 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.

Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach — which we call the RI Way—emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.

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In the Philippines, RI has delivered a wide spectrum of humanitarian assistance and development programming including institutionalizing improved Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services with local government, responding to natural disasters through food and NFI distribution, and building the capacity of local government to improve Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) preparedness.

Position Summary:

Post-Typhoon Uwan (with international name FUNG-WONG), the enumerator/volunteer will conduct rapid needs assessment, households profiling, beneficiary validation of pre-identified households, and post-distribution monitoring (PDM) for the Typhoon Uwan Emergency Response in affected communities and municipalities in Aurora and or Isabela provinces. The volunteers will be assisting also the ER activities like distribution of kits and community sessions.

Position Responsibilities and Duties:

1. Attend the orientation on the use of template and guidelines in the conduct of the data
2. Gathering, including RNA and PDM.
3. Performing day-to-day data collection activities using the template provided by RI and the
4. Consortium (target of around 30 households per day for the household profiling, beneficiary validation, and PDM activities).  
5. Get consent and take photos from the field.
6. Ensure that data collection processes are in accordance with RI guidelines; and
7. Assist in the preparation and distribution of the relief assistance for emergency response.
8. Conduct community sessions and orientation on hygiene promotion and protection key messages.

Safeguarding

• Uphold and promote RI's commitment to ensuring the safeguarding and safety of the

vulnerable communities we serve;

• Ensure that your behavior inside and outside of work promotes the values outlined

with RI's code of conduct and safeguarding policies;

• Consistent with RI's safeguarding and protection policies, contribute to ensuring that

all those who come into contact with Relief International staff and the communities

we serve can be trusted to work safely with them; and

• Ensure program design adequately addresses safeguarding and protection standards.

RI Values:

We uphold the Humanitarian Principles: humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and operational independence.  We affirmatively engage the most vulnerable communities.

We value: 

• Inclusiveness
• Transparency and Accountability
• Agility and Innovation
• Collaboration
• Sustainability