Overview
The Shock Responsive & Adaptive Social Protection (SRASP) Coordinator will serve as the main liaison with social protection, disaster risk management, and early warning/forecasting counterparts, and will coordinate the SRASP Task Force.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the main liaison with social protection, disaster risk management, and early warning/forecasting counterparts.
- Establish and coordinate the SRASP Task Force.
- Support the government in developing a legal framework to formalize SRASP.
- Contribute to the design of financial channel structures for SRASP interventions.
- Develop and implement a technical roadmap for SP-DRM-SRASP.
- Assess operational structures and develop joint protocols for SRASP intervention.
- Lead the development of a training and learning agenda.
- Support integration of SRASP into the Unified Registry.
- Strengthen targeting methodologies to prioritize vulnerable households during shocks.
- Improve registration processes for timely and accurate inclusion of beneficiaries.
- Enhance delivery mechanisms to maximize efficiency, accountability, and responsiveness.
- Promote the use of digital solutions for targeting, registration, and delivery.
- Ensure a nutrition sensitive lens is embedded in all SRASP operational architecture.
- Coordinate with WFP Programme Units and government counterparts to develop and maintain a DRF and AA roadmap for SRASP.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in social protection, EPR, or adaptive systems required.
- Demonstrated previous experience working on either the design, implementation or evaluation of SRASP systems.
- Familiarity with multi-hazard early warning systems and data management protocols within Iraqi government institutions.
- Demonstrated experience in government liaison, institutional framework development, and multi‑stakeholder coordination.
- Strong knowledge of Iraq’s social protection and DRM landscape.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Public Policy, Public Administration, International Development, International Relations, Sociology, Social Policy, Economics, Disaster Risk Management, or other fields relevant to social protection.
- Advanced university degree in Social Policy, Economics, International Development, Disaster Risk Management, or related field.
