Weapon contamination delegate - Risk education / risk awareness specialists

The ICRC Weapon Contamination Unit (WeC) is recruiting a Risk education / risk awareness specialists

Introduction to ICRC WEC activities

The ICRC is regularly faced with challenges related to weapon contamination. Such contamination can be of a conventional or a non-conventional type and include unexploded or abandoned ordnance, landmines, weaponised or industrial toxic agents.

The ICRC undertakes a range of activities to minimize the impact of weapon contamination on affected populations and to ensure a rapid and effective response. Such response could be one or more of the following activities:

• Information gathering and analyses of weapon contamination
• Risk awareness and risk education on conventional and non-conventional (CBRN) weapons hazards, including in urban armed violence contexts
• Risk based training to increase resilience for civilians in armed conflict
• Non-technical and technical survey activities
• Clearance of conventional and non-conventional (CBRN) weapon hazards and
• Capacity building of Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies and authorities

The ICRC WeC services are focused on the following four strategic areas:

• Assist in managing risks posed by weapon related hazards to own staff and partners as a part of the organisations 'duty of care' processes
• Assist in maintaining the integrity of the organisation by securing continuation of key operations in situations where weapons or weapons systems pose a risk
• Assist in protecting the vulnerable in situations of armed conflict (e.g. risk education, risk management or contribute to a more robust Conduct of Hostilities reporting)
• Support the development of the National Societies of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in their implementation of WeC activities

WeC Delegate-Risk education / risk awareness specialists

He/she works under the administrative authority of the Head of Delegation of the duty station in which the coordinator is based or the WeC Coordinator when applicable.

Responsibilities:

• In her/his country of deployment, to ensure that weapon contamination related needs are effectively understood by the management team and properly relayed to the Regional Weapon Contamination Adviser (through the WeC Coordinator when applicable)
• In her/his country of deployment, to ensure that the necessary resources are availed to implement risk education / risk awareness weapon contamination activities
• To ensure that the ICRC and Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement remain engaged with relevant national bodies, processes and activities
• Develop a thorough understanding of the weapon contamination situation in her/his area of responsibility and provide ICRC management with hazards identification and risk assessments of the likely impact of weapon contamination on staff, operations and civilians in affected areas
• Monitor risk education / risk awareness operations implemented in the area of responsibility by the RC / RC Movement to ensure that they are appropriate, adapted and in line with International Mine Action Standards and the ICRC SOP, and coordinate the risk education / risk awareness activities implemented by the ICRC
• In coordination with the WeC Coordinator when applicable, promote understanding and implementation of the Movement Strategy and the Preventive Mine Action Operations Framework
• In coordination with the WeC Coordinator when applicable, maintain and promote institutional engagement with external national networks and engage with these networks as appropriate
• Provide feedback and lessons learned from programmes to further develop and improve weapon contamination operational policy at the institutional level
• In coordination with the WeC Coordinator when applicable, provide training, mentoring, orientation and support to ICRC and RC / RC Movement staff working in mine and weapon contaminated environments
• In coordination with the WeC Coordinator when applicable, ensure WeC activities are implemented in a transversal manner in coordination with the different internal stakeholders and facilitate and complement other aspects of ICRC emergency programming such as relief distributions, water provision, and dead body management
• In coordination with the WeC Coordinator when applicable, develop good working relationships with stakeholders in the area of responsibility (i.e. relief and development organizations, UN agencies and local government representatives) to maximize the impact of the ICRC's work and to identify high priority areas for cooperation on WeC related activities
• Develop and maintain Standing Operating Procedures (SOPs) and other guidelines for risk education and risk awareness activities
• Creatively overcome challenges presented by operating in a conflict or post conflict environment.

Your profile

• Education : advanced university degree (master degree or equivalent) with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience with demonstrated capabilities in management, planning and implementation of training/capacity building; or a first level university degree (bachelor degree or equivalent) with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• Instructor qualification (from an internationally recognized institution)
• Very good command of English. French, Russian and Arabic, an asset
• Manual transmission driving license with driving experiences mandatory

Minimum length of assignment: 3 months

Please note that owing to the ICRC's working procedures and principles, in particular the principle of neutrality, we cannot assign personnel to a country of which they are a national

https://www.icrc.org/en/who-we-are/jobs/opportunity/weapon-contamination-delegate-risk-education-risk-awareness-specialists