Overview
The Weapon Contamination (WeC) Field Officer supports the implementation, monitoring, and coordination of ICRC Weapon Contamination activities across Yemen, contributing to humanitarian mine action interventions.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the planning, implementation, monitoring, and follow-up of ICRC Weapon Contamination (WeC) activities across Yemen.
- Contribute to the effective implementation of Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) activities conducted by ICRC-supported partners.
- Monitor field activities and provide timely feedback, analysis, and recommendations.
- Facilitate communication, coordination, and information exchange between stakeholders.
- Support the collection, management, analysis, and reporting of operational data.
- Assist in identifying operational challenges, emerging risks, and opportunities for program improvement.
- Support the organization and delivery of training, workshops, coaching sessions, and lessons-learned exercises.
- Contribute to strengthening integrated approaches between the WeC Unit and other ICRC programs.
- Ensure timely preparation of field reports, assessments, meeting minutes, briefing notes, and other operational documentation.
Required Experience
- 3–5 years of professional experience in humanitarian mine action, emergency response, community engagement, risk awareness, protection, humanitarian operations, or related fields.
- Experience in project implementation, monitoring, coordination, reporting, or capacity strengthening.
- Experience working with humanitarian organizations, government institutions, or national authorities is desirable.
- Familiarity with humanitarian mine action, explosive ordnance risk education, or weapon contamination programming is an asset.
- Previous experience with the ICRC, Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, UN agencies, or NGOs is desirable.
- Good knowledge of the Yemen operational context.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent.
- Good command of computer literacy.
- Good understanding of humanitarian mine action and weapon contamination-related activities.
