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Organizational Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, with a network of 192-member National Societies. The overall aim of the IFRC is \u201cto 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.\u201d The IFRC works to meet the needs and improve the lives of vulnerable people before, during, and after disasters, health emergencies, and other crises.<\/li>\n
- The Africa Region suffers multiple disasters yearly. The 2020 World Disaster Report highlights that Africa alone suffers 50% of the global humanitarian crisis caseload. Unfortunately, this trend is only increasing with the effects of climate change, unplanned urbanization, and social tensions, leading to a spike in natural disasters (particularly droughts and floods), health disease outbreaks, urban poverty, and population movement. National Societies\u00b4 role as auxiliary to public authorities in the humanitarian field is only growing insignificance. In 2020, with the support of IFRC, National Societies have responded to over 100 disasters, in a constant strive to alleviate the humanitarian suffering from multiple shocks. While the operating context remains extremely challenging, resources are scarce and intermittent, placing National Societies under tremendous pressure.<\/li>\n
- Therefore, it is the responsibility of the IFRC Africa Secretariat to continue building the capacity of, and provide resources to National Societies in Africa, ensuring operations are managed in a holistic and sustainable way, from risk reduction and preparedness (early warning systems, RRTs, prepositioning, etc.) to response and recovery, including all components of operations management \u2013 program management, governance & accountability, HR and volunteer management, finance, logistics, etc.<\/li>\n
- The above entails uninterrupted support from the IFRC secretariat in a spirit of proximity with the National Societies \u2013 as local as possible \u2013 ideally through our Country Offices or Country Clusters, embedding IFRC staff in National Societies structure providing adequate support while building internal capacity. The Abuja-based office is the hub to support West Coast Cluster and has a status agreement with the Nigerian government.<\/li>\n
- This job is to support the IFRC West Coast country cluster delegation in their support to the national societies. The senior operations officer will be reporting to the Operations Coordinator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Job Purpose<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- The Operations Officer will ensure a symbiotic process of development for the National Society operations management, with the ultimate goal of increasing their readiness, management, governance, and sustainability, eventually building National Societies autonomy in the medium-term.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Job Responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- The Operations Officer will be deployed to the field 100% of their time in support to National Societies, working on three main objectives:\n
\n- Increasing preparedness for an 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;<\/li>\n
- Supporting timely and high-quality humanitarian response when a disaster strikes, ensuring sound operational management and coordination in the field.<\/li>\n
- Support and increase the capacity of National Societies in project\/proposal writing and management, including diversifying the donor portfolio and sources of funding in liaison with the PRD department.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- To safeguard quality support and proper follow-up, each Operations Officer will support up to a maximum of 3 National Societies within the same geographic area.<\/li>\n
- The Operations Officers are an integral part of the ARO DCPRR team, following DCPRR policies and tools, receiving technical guidance and peer-to-peer support. Each Operation Officer will have a technical line with an Operations Coordinator in the Cluster Office (if available) or to the Regional Office. The technical line manager is responsible to ensure the proposed KPIs are attained.<\/li>\n
- The Operations Officer will report to the Head of Country or HoCCST. The HoC and HoCCST must support the Operations Officers in liaising with the National Societies to define the scope of work of the Operations Officer, taking into consideration previous assessments conducted (PER, OCAC, BOCAs, etc.), ongoing RC\/RC operations support, and the National Society leadership strategic direction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
General Responsibilities<\/strong>
\nSupport National Societies increase their Operations Management Capacity:<\/p>\n