Humanitarian Access Officer -Hasakah

Job Description

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Liaison

· The Humanitarian Access Officer will be working with the Deputy Access Manager / Senior Humanitarian Access Manager for managing relationships with community relief structures as well as helping to identify possible beneficiary population

· Liaise with local relief committee members in all areas of operations

· Makes contacts with other local authorities to gain new entry points for beneficiary identification such as religious leaders, school administrators or other relevant officials

· Responsible for managing the feedback from community about potential new beneficiary families, and locations.

· Facilitate and Attends community meetings.

· Plans and carries out community acceptance events.

· Plans and facilitates focus group discussions and other information gathering sessions with connectors and dividers in the community.

· Document lessons learned and success stories on the project.

· Work with the DAM/SHAM to identify local partners.

· Update the partner tracking & mapping in area of operation.

· Support the compliance team with the compliance mechanism

· Identify passable location for hotline for compliance.

· Support the programs with engaging with authorities

· Identify programmatic challenges and work with the HAM to find relevant solutions

· Conduct training for local partner about the humanitarian principle and further trainings

· Engage with the HAO to facilitate the activities for Programs and work on permissions for the Program activities.

· Conduct focus group discussion and other information gathering sessions with IRC Female staff to identify their gender-related requirement and challenges in all IRC location in NES

· Liaise with the other NGO’s.

· Administrative activities for Access department.

· Facilitating a staff engagement session about safety – gender related issues.

· Other duties when is needed.

ACCOUNTABILITY:

Reports Directly to: Deputy Access Manager

I****ndirect Reporting****: Sr. Humanitarian Access Manager, Regional Safety and Security Advisor, and CD.

Qualifications

· College degree

· At least 2 years of relevant work experience; previous NGO experience preferred.

· Solid knowledge and understanding of the Syrian context, including geographical, political and security aspects.

· Experience and/or knowledge of local financial institutions

· Experience working in a field-based environment supporting relief programmers, or working with local communities providing assistance to vulnerable families

· Understanding of the non-partisan status of an international NGO

· Good communication, numeric and strong analytical skills,

· Demonstrated ability in implementing programmers through Cash or Voucher Based Programming,

· Should be computer literate with a good sense of attention to detail,

· Good command of English and Arabic

· Kurdish will be an added advantage.

· Ability to think independently and problem solve.

· Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task

· Honest, hardworking, and committed to community development.