Deadline: 09 May, 2023
Location: Dakar, Senegal
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has opened applications for the role of Regional Humanitarian Military Interaction Officer.
The mission of WFP is to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the main focal point for all regional civil-military issues for WFP in close consultation with the country offices
- Support the regional bureau management in initiating, where appropriate, and pursuing dialogue and coordination with regional, sub-regional and international military counterparts, UN agencies and other humanitarian actors
- Create and coordinate the implementation of the WFP civil-military strategy in the region, with contributions from the various regional units
- Actively work to establish a network of interlocutors at the operational and strategic level, and ensure the preparation of exchanges (format of meetings, preparation of key messages and language)
- Liaise and coordinate with regional authorities, security actors, humanitarian partners and other stakeholders to ensure a coherent and consistent civil-military approach in the geographical areas covered by WFP operations in West Africa, and to ensure that risks to WFP staff and operational partners are mitigated
- Liaise with the regional bureau and the civil-military coordination officers in the country offices on civil-military initiatives of the country office
- Establish and maintain a network of contacts with other UN agencies or regionally based staff who are responsible for civil-military relations as well as NGO focal points for civil-military coordination
- Participate in OCHA access working groups and regional civil-military coordination meetings and consultations with other UN agencies and humanitarian partners
- Facilitate the establishment and maintenance of communication with foreign and international military forces, and regional and sub-regional armed actors in order to establish mechanisms for resolving strategic and operational issues, with the goal of creating a communication mechanism and protocol between humanitarian and military/security parties
- To the extent possible and appropriate, support planning activities and training events with military/state counterparts
- Promote greater adherence to humanitarian principles and existing civil-military guidance documents
- Establish with the security manager the establishment and/or securing (if needed) of a deconfliction mechanism
- Provide specialised assistance on civil-military relations considerations for the development of implementation plans to assist WFP in emergency response
- Be prepared to be part of an integrated planning process and/or coordination of humanitarian convoys with other security actors in the region, UN missions and other actors
- Assist, advise and facilitate the development of country-specific guidelines on civil-military relations and the use of military assets of national and international forces
- Assist, advise and facilitate the development of country-specific guidance on relations with local armed actors and their commanders in liaison with local authorities
- Ensure that applicable civil-military coordination guidelines, country-specific guidelines, or generic guidelines are properly disseminated and understood by humanitarian actors and the military and/or police forces present
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in Security, International Relations, Political/Social Sciences, Business Administration, Economics or Management
- Eight year, minimum, of professional level experience in international humanitarian work or in a civil-military coordination, logistics, security or other operational management function, or military experience
- Fluency in spoken and written French
- Knowledge of English
To apply and for more information, click here.
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