Overview
The Roving Humanitarian Disarmament and Peacebuilding (HDP) Advisor will join the EMPACT team to ensure DRC delivers a rapid and appropriate HMA and conflict sensitive emergency response. This role prevents and reduces exposure to immediate risks, protects communities, and enables them to meet basic needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading on assessing the relevance and feasibility of establishing a specific DRC HMA emergency response, and considering possible integration with other sectors and leading on the design and implementation of rapid and standard conflict analyses to inform a DRC conflict sensitive response in emergency situations including the design, planning, implementation, evaluation, and adaptation of DRC HDP emergency response activities, including Emergency Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE), Conflict, Conflict Preparedness and Protection (CPP), Explosive Hazard Assessment (EHAs) and marking in accordance with organizational policies, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), humanitarian principles, national regulations, and the latest edition of the International Mine Action Standards (IMAS) and identifying, referring and supporting EO survivors, indirect victims, and persons with disabilities affected by explosive ordnance and explosive weapons incidents.
- Develop operational strategies, workplans, budgets, and contingency plans to ensure timely and effective emergency response with the highest possible standards of safety and security are maintained in all operations.
- Supporting with the identification, capacity assessment and strengthening, technical assistance provision and monitoring of local HMA partners, and stakeholders to promote a locally led HMA emergency response.
- Liaising pro-actively and building good rapport with local authority officials, community representatives, and any other relevant stakeholders, while supporting their capacity-building through on-going one-on-one support and coaching.
- Participating in relevant coordination fora and external engagement and advocacy efforts related to the emergency HMA response and contribute to global advocacy efforts.
Required Experience
Minimum 5 years’ previous experience in HMA and full understanding of its technical requirements. Proven management experience gained in a range of settings including emergency contexts/insecure environments. Experience with accreditation to IMAS standard. Proven record of training national staff and ability to train and mentor national counterparts.
Qualifications
IMAS EOD 3 qualifications as minimum. IMAS EOD level 3 + (desirable).
