Overview
The Anticipatory Action Coordinator will lead the implementation of the Scaling Anticipatory Action for Displacement (SAAD) project in Nigeria, aiming to shift humanitarian crisis management from reaction to prevention.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and operationalization of conflict-sensitive Anticipatory Action Plans (AAPs) for Nigeria.
- Define pre-agreed anticipatory intervention packages, including conflict prevention, social cohesion initiatives, and protection services.
- Coordinate the refinement and localization of DRC's machine learning displacement forecasting model for Nigeria.
- Lead the Integrated Context Analysis (ICA) process for Nigeria.
- Facilitate co-design processes with civil society organizations, protection actors, peacebuilding stakeholders, and government institutions.
- Ensure AAP design is conflict-sensitive and protection-centered.
- Provide operational oversight of AAP activations.
- Represent DRC in the National Technical Working Group on Anticipatory Action.
- Maintain and strengthen partnerships with local civil society organizations, peacebuilding actors, and academic institutions.
- Coordinate closely with DRC Nigeria's Protection Monitoring team, Partnerships Coordinator, and emergency response colleagues.
- Support institutionalization of anticipatory action within national disaster risk management and early warning architectures.
- Work with DRC's global and regional data analysts to monitor displacement forecasts and refine trigger thresholds.
- Oversee the implementation of the SAAD MEAL framework in Nigeria.
- Coordinate the project's academic partnership with a Nigerian university.
- Document and systematize evidence from AAP activations.
- Contribute to the South-South learning exchange between Nigeria and Colombia.
- Contribute to global, regional, and national knowledge-sharing.
- Contribute to SAAD's national advocacy strategy on anticipatory action for displacement.
- Support DRC Nigeria's broader business development efforts.
- Represent DRC's anticipatory action approach at national and regional forums.
- Ensure quality and timely technical and financial reporting.
- Manage sub-grants to local partners.
- Maintain regular communication with the Regional AA Coordinator, global project team, and country management.
- Manage field travel budget and contribute to workplan and budget monitoring.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of experience in humanitarian programming in conflict-affected settings, with at least 2 years directly working on anticipatory action, early warning, rapid response mechanisms, or disaster risk management.
- Demonstrated experience working in Nigeria or the West Africa region, with strong contextual understanding of transhumance dynamics, farmer-herder conflict drivers, displacement patterns, or humanitarian coordination systems.
- Experience designing and implementing anticipatory action projects or preparedness systems, including trigger development, anticipatory action planning, and participatory co-design processes is a clear asset.
- Familiarity with protection monitoring systems, peacebuilding, and conflict-sensitive programming in complex displacement contexts is a clear asset.
- Experience with peacebuilding or social cohesion programming in conflict-affected settings is desirable.
- Experience managing sub-grants to local partners is desirable.
- Experience with quasi-experimental MEAL methods in humanitarian settings is desirable.
Qualifications
Academic background in International / Humanitarian Affairs, Political Science or Peace and Conflict Studies, Geography or Environmental Studies with a conflict/displacement focus, Social Sciences (Sociology, Anthropology) with a displacement or forced migration specialization, or related field.
