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Job Title: RRM Coordinator
Code: 41-5189
Duty station: Juba with frequent visit to the field Greater Upper Nile Region)
Starting date: 27/03/2023
Contract duration: 10 months
Reporting to: Programme Coordinator and HoM
Supervision of: RRM team
Dependents: non-family duty station
General context of the project
South Sudan has confronted several humanitarian challenges in the last ten years including conflict, displacement, food insecurity, flooding, and epidemics. People’s humanitarian needs in South Sudan continue to be mainly driven by years of conflict, increasing underlying vulnerabilities which have been further compounded by the impacts of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. The already critical humanitarian situation has been compounded by the third consecutive year of atypically severe flooding in 2021, with 835,000 people reported as affected between May and December 2021. Seasonal flooding of large wetlands is a feature of the South Sudan landscape and plays a crucial role in the livelihoods of large numbers of South Sudanese people. Their seasonal extent is determined by both in country rainfall and inflows from the Nile and its tributaries. Long range rainfall forecasts for the next five years (2021-2025) indicate that this period is likely to be wetter than average over the Nile basin, (South Sudan – Flood / Wetland Historical Overview, July 2021 by WFP) This may imply that increased flooding and extended flood related displacement is expected in the coming years.
On top of increased flooding crisis, sub-national violence continues to obstruct the realization of a durable and sustainable peace in South Sudan. Sub-national violence can take on different forms, including armed clashes, killings, sexual violence, abductions and looting/destruction of property and resources. Looting/ destruction of property and resources can entail destruction of farmland and house, as well as cattle raiding. Ongoing violent conflict combined with flooding resulted in continued displacement impacting pre-existing vulnerabilities and coping capacities of affected populations. (CSRF, July 2022).
Many South Sudanese have experienced displacement, often multiple times, both before and after the country’s independence, due to conflict, floods, or other factors. Options pursued have included moving to refugee camps in neighboring countries, into towns or to camps for internally displaced people, often adjacent to urban centers. According to UNHCR’s August 2022 monthly statistics, there are more than 2.3 million South Sudanese refugees in neighboring countries, and 2.2 million who are internally displaced whereby 1,692,586 (76%) of them are IDPs in host communities. Among the ten States hosting these IDPs Warrap State (19%), Unity State (17%), Central equatorial State (14%) and Jonglei State (14%) are hosting the highest IDP caseload followed by Lakes and Upper Nile state hosting 10% and 9% of the IDP caseload, respectively. The already fragile situation, coupled with the consistent reduction of funds for responding to the humanitarian needs, have reduced the capacity of local and international actors in responding in a timely and consistent manner to the different crises.
At broader level and based on trend analysis on previous years’ disasters happened in South Sudan, INTERSOS has identified conflict and flood related acute emergencies to be the crisis to respond through this proposed RRM project. During intercommunal conflict and flood there is always huge influx of vulnerable people displaced who need immediate humanitarian support whereby provision of non-food items and protection services are one of the key needs. The rationale behind the integration of the RRM response into INTERSOS’s South Sudan programming is to create a mechanism whereby an immediate life-saving response is in place complemented through ongoing recovery-oriented interventions before totally pull out the humanitarian support in that specific target community. This project aim is to set-up a team who has the capacity of doing a pro-active analysis of crisis, prepositioning of required resources, setting scenarios and monitoring of triggering factors for an emergency response and responding within 1-2 weeks of crisis onset and last for a maximum of 2-3 months.
General purpose of the position
The Emergency Response Coordinator is responsible to ensure that the RRM program is strategically relevant, technically sound, efficiently implemented and administered to meet INTERSOS and donors quality standards, in order to respond to the needs of the country’s most vulnerable/crisis-affected population. S(he) will coordinate the activities implemented within the RRM framework.
Also, s(he) will maintain the link with operational, technical and coordination partners (including clusters and sectorial working groups) as well as with international donors, local and national authorities.
Moreover, the RRM coordinator oversees the management of the programmatic aspects regarding INTERSOS RRM programme (implementation of activities, procurement, HR, monitoring etc.).
Main responsibilities and tasks
Ensure the quality implementation of the RRM programme
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Required profile and experience
Education
Professional Experience
Professional Requirements
Languages
Personal Requirements
Interested candidates are invited to apply following the link below: https://www.intersos.org/posizioni-aperte/missioni/#intersosorg-vacancies/vacancy-details/63cfb896d94ed8001142d6dc/
Please note that our application process is made of 3 quick steps: register (including your name, email, password and citizenship), sign-up and apply by attaching your CV in PDF format. Through the platform, candidates will be able to track their applications’ history with INTERSOS.
Please also mention the name, position and contact details of at least three references: two line managers and one HR referent. Family members are to be excluded.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the first interview.
Tagged as: Intersos, South Sudan
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