Overview
The Emergency Humanitarian Access, Safety & Security Coordinator (ERT HASSC) will deploy in support of emergency responses for 65% of the time. The role is responsible for adapting and implementing organizational humanitarian access, safety and security policies and procedures to ensure IRC reaches those who are worst-affected and least-served.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the identification, analysis, and mitigation of humanitarian access, safety and security risks.
- Develop and implement specific access, security and acceptance strategies.
- Build and maintain relationships, engage and negotiate with authorities, key power brokers, security actors, and community stakeholders.
- Establish and maintain emergency-appropriate access and security incident reporting and trend analysis systems.
- Construct and maintain context-appropriate communications infrastructure.
- Serve as a member of Field Critical Incident Management Team.
- Provide technical input to assessments and proposal development.
- Coordinate and collaborate with Country and Regional HASS staff.
- Ensure sustainability of HASS management systems and appropriate handover.
- Collaborate with relevant IRC units to ensure prompt and appropriate follow-up to violations of IRC’s Code of Conduct.
- Identify, establish and manage context appropriate approach to assure IRC facilities are secure.
- Input into the SHIELD incident database for incident reporting and management.
- Report to the DEHASS on all technical and contextual humanitarian access, safety and security issues.
- Participate, support, and collaborate in the development and delivery of the shared service offering of ASAP.
- Design, deliver, and supervise emergency HASS capacity-strengthening plans.
- Contribute to the design and delivery of capacity sharing initiatives.
- Lead and facilitate Critical Incident/Crisis Management training.
- Keep records on trainings, identify gaps, and report data.
- Support development, updates and revisions of HASS technical resources.
- Support the monitoring, analysis and reporting of global access and security incidents and trends.
- Lead the delivery of partner capacity sharing plans in emergency contexts.
- Ensure the application of IRC’s S&S L&D framework.
- Review partner technical tools, reports, and data.
- Adapt IRC direct implementation emergency tools and systems for partner use.
- Champion a culture of effective and respective partnerships.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships across EmU, Global S&S Department and regional/country colleagues.
- Cultivate and maintain a positive, collaborative, safe and protective work environment.
- Contribute to efforts across EmU and within emergency responses to promote gender equality, diversity and more inclusive practice.
Required Experience
Approximately 6 years of non-profit or NGO work experience within international humanitarian assistance programs with demonstrated successes in planning, organizing and managing humanitarian access, safety and security in complex and volatile environments. Understanding of humanitarian principles, codes of conduct and ideally, specific sub-sector work linked to NGO field operations contexts. Proven ability to gain a precise understanding of the various local, regional, country and international policies, operational positions and interactions of unfolding security and political situations, providing clear dynamic briefings and facilitation to reach shared analysis outputs to inform decision making before and during emergencies and major crises. Demonstrated understanding and successes in gender security management and gender equality. Skilled in influencing and obtaining cooperation of individuals at different levels and without supervisory line; able to work as member of multinational team and manage a variety of external and internal relationships to achieve results. Advanced level knowledge of communications technology, including VHF, HF radio systems, satellite communications, cell phone mediums, etc. Evidence of experience in capacity strengthening, including prior experience as a facilitator and trainer – the ability to develop, implement, facilitate and impart learning to a wide range of audiences.
