Overview
The Sub-National Mine Action (MA) Coordinator supports effective, principled and coherent coordination of mine action partners on subnational level. The role contributes to ensuring that mine action activities are harmonised, informed by operational and community realities, and aligned with national coordination priorities and humanitarian planning processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Represent the Mine Action AoR in sub-national ISCG, AHCT, Protection and inter-sector coordination meetings and forums.
- Ensure that Mine Action priorities, risks and operational realities are reflected in area-level humanitarian discussions and planning.
- Provide regular updates on contamination trends, incidents, access constraints, humanitarian needs and operational developments at the subnational level.
- Support coherent and harmonised engagement between Mine Action actors operating in southern Syria.
- Convene and facilitate regular sub-national Mine Action coordination meetings.
- Prepare and circulate agendas, meeting minutes and action points in a timely manner.
- Promote effective information sharing and coordination among Mine Action partners, as well as facilitate support of MA partners to other sectors as needed.
- Identify operational gaps, duplications, emerging risks and coordination challenges and escalate where necessary.
- Support collective prioritisation discussions and promote complementarity between actors.
- Maintain regular communication and two-way information flow with the national Mine Action coordination team.
- Collect, consolidate and share information related to contamination, incidents, access constraints and operational developments.
- Disseminate national guidance, standards, advocacy messages and coordination updates to field-level partners.
- Contribute to humanitarian analysis, mapping and reporting related to Mine Action activities and contamination impact.
- Support the integration of Mine Action considerations into area-based humanitarian planning and response discussions.
- Promote linkages between Mine Action and other sectors including Protection, Shelter, WASH, Health, Education, etc.
- Provide explosive ordnance risk and contamination-related information to humanitarian actors and coordination structures where relevant.
- Support advocacy efforts related to humanitarian access, civilian protection and contamination-related humanitarian impact.
- Uphold humanitarian principles, including neutrality, impartiality, independence and accountability.
- Ensure a clear separation between coordination responsibilities and organisational operational interests as per IASC guidelines and instructions.
- Declare and appropriately manage any actual or perceived conflicts of interest.
- Promote principled, inclusive and community-informed coordination approaches.
- Notify the national coordination team of significant incidents, accidents, contamination developments or urgent coordination matters.
- Support rapid liaison and coordination among partners during emergencies or contamination-related incidents when required.
- Undertake any other tasks as required by HMA Operations Manager and Head of HDP.
Required Experience
- Minimum 3–5 years of experience in humanitarian coordination, humanitarian mine action, protection or related humanitarian sectors.
- Good understanding of humanitarian coordination systems, including cluster/AoR structures (e.g. IASC Guidelines on Cluster Coordination, etc.).
- Knowledge of humanitarian mine action principles, terminology and operational approaches, including EORE, NTS and land release concepts.
- Experience engaging with NGOs, UN agencies, authorities and local stakeholders.
- Strong facilitation, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience working in complex and conflict-affected environments.
- Strong analytical, reporting and information management skills.
- Ability to work independently and maintain neutrality in coordination functions.
- Familiarity with the Syria humanitarian response architecture is highly desirable.
Qualifications
- University degree in humanitarian affairs, international relations, social sciences, mine action or another relevant field.
- Equivalent relevant field experience may be accepted in lieu of formal education.
