The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organisation with the exclusively humanitarian mission to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. It also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening International Humanitarian Law and universal humanitarian principles. The ICRC’s Regional Delegation in Nairobi co-ordinates the institution’s humanitarian activities in Kenya, Tanzania, and Djibouti.
Overall Responsibility
The Protection of Family Links (PFL) AFRICA Officer provides support and contributes to drive the ICRC’s regional efforts of the Central Tracing Agency (CTA) ambitions supporting the PFL Regional Manager’s long term and strategic orientations to the field in terms of technical guidance on the planning and implementation of activities relating to the Separated, the Missing and their Families in the AFRICA region in accordance with Institutional and regional strategies and plans of action:  Institutional Strategy 2024-2027; Restoring Family Links (RFL) Movement strategy 2020-25); AFRICA Regional Strategic Framework (2019-2025); Africa Family Links Network Plan of Action).
 The PFL AFRICA Officer supports the efforts of ensuring the continuum between the action for the separated, the missing and their families (early action and registration, preservation, field tracing).  More specifically, contributes to (1) support and accompany the AFRICA Family Links Network to promote and implement guidelines, tools, and good practices, while proactively contributing to maintaining a mapping of the regional response; (2) act as focal point on the issue of data protection; and (3) organize events/facilitate regional or sub-regional coordination mechanisms in virtual or face-to-face mode.
Tasks and responsibilities
Minimum Requirements and competencies
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