Senior Officer, Disaster Management

2 weeks ago

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Full time

Vacancy No.
S03802

Contract Type
National

Application Deadline
20-Jun-2023

Job Posted on
06-Jun-2023

Country

SOUTH AFRICA

Duty Station
Pretoria, South Africa

Duty Station Status
N/A

Duration
6 months

Accompanied Status
N/A

Grade
National Staff

Organizational Context:


The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, with a network of 192-member National Societies.

The overall aim of the IFRC is "to inspire, encourage, facilitate, and promote at all times all forms of humanitarian activities by National Societies with a view to preventing and alleviating human suffering and thereby contributing to the maintenance and promotion of human dignity and peace in the world." The IFRC works to meet the needs and improve the lives of vulnerable people before, during and after disasters, health emergencies and other crises.


IFRC is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (Movement), together with its member National Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The work of the IFRC is guided by the following fundamental principles:
humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality.

IFRC is led by its Secretary General, and has its Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Headquarters are organized into three main Divisions:
(i) National Society Development and Operations Coordination; (ii) Global Relations, Humanitarian Diplomacy and Digitalization; and (iii) Management Policy, Strategy and Corporate Services.

IFRC has five regional offices in Africa, Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and the Americas. IFRC also has country cluster delegation and country delegations throughout the world. Together, the Geneva Headquarters and the field structure (regional, cluster and country) comprise the IFRC Secretariat.

The IFRC Africa Region has 15 cluster delegations across the continent. Each of these delegations support 2-4 National Societies.

Other country delegations may be considered depending on the support required by National Societies.***
Job Purpose:Under the supervision of the IFRC Southern Africa Operations Manager, the Senior DM Officer will ensure timely, effective and efficient support of disaster risk management activities for National Societies.

He/she will work in building national, regional and institutional (including secretariat) disaster response and preparedness capacities to enable them to improve their disaster management programming and be an advocate for IFRC's Preparedness for Effective Response approach.


He/she assures ongoing collaboration with all relevant partners in the region in the field of disaster risk management and will also work on further developing these relationships.

He/she contributes to the quality improvement of the DRM programme of NS throughout the region.


The DM Officer will ensure a symbiotic process of development for the National Society DRM programmes, with the ultimate goal of increasing community resilience to disasters; enhance NS and their branches disaster readiness.

Thus, the Senior DM Officer will be deployed to the field 100% of his/her time in support to National Societies, working on four main objectives:

  • Increasing preparedness for effective response (through PER or the Red Ready approach), working with NHQ and Branches to build response capacity prior to disasters, including contingency planning and EWS, forming Rapid Response Teams, Stock Prepositioning, and supply chains;
  • Supporting of timely and highquality humanitarian response when a disaster strikes, ensuring sound operational management and coordination in the field.
  • Support NS to design longterm resilience building programme including Food security and livelihoods.
  • Support profiling of programmes through meetings participation and monthly newsletters

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Build capacity and competencies of National Societies in Disaster Risk Management and support them in becoming relevant partners for Disaster Risk Management in their respective countries.
  • Strengthening NS programming in community resilience, contextualising and localising Road Map to Community Resilience guide and ensure resilience approach is integrated across all NS programming areas.
  • Actively engage the National Societies on the scalingup of 'Preparedness for Effective Response' approach and improving coordination and harmonisation of DRM capacity building approaches.
  • Facilitate technical guidance for the National Societies on Cash Transfer preparedness and programming in different contexts.
  • Support the National Societies with the process of hazards mapping, development and review of Contingency Plans, SOPs at national and branch levels.
  • Promotes knowledge sharing and best practices among Red Cross Movement Partners and at internat

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