Overview
The Generalist Field Officer contributes to the identification, implementation, and monitoring of ICRC projects in various fields of activities within the assigned area of responsibility, involving frequent travel. The role supports the representation of the ICRC at the local level, monitors the general situation, networks, and conducts field trips.
Key Responsibilities
- Contributes to implementing and following up on various field activities.
- Monitors the humanitarian environment and needs, and analyses the security, socio-economic, cultural, and political environment.
- Shares relevant information and reports any changes in the situation.
- Contributes to designing projects.
- Collects, compiles, translates/interprets information about projects and contributes to written reporting.
- Participates in internal and external meetings and develops and maintains contacts with local actors.
- Participates in and may carry out administrative follow-up of field missions.
- Monitors the humanitarian and security environment within a defined geographic area of responsibility (AoR).
- Contributes to ensuring a protection-centered, transversal, multi-disciplinary approach to activity implementation.
- Ensures ICRC responds to the needs of vulnerable individuals and populations.
- Analyses and advises on security and access constraints and contributes to developing mitigations.
- Ensures field teams understand and comply with Field and Security related procedures.
- Contributes to the analysis of the protection environment in their AoR.
- Collects, compiles, and interprets protection information.
- Documents Protection cases and ensures follow-up.
- Identifies and engages with key actors impacting ICRC’s security, access, and operations.
- Builds and strengthens engagement with communities.
- Contributes to ensuring the list of key interlocutors is kept up-to-date.
- Represents and promotes the ICRC.
- Ensures timely preparation and submission of administrative documents for field trips.
- Organizes and follows up on logistics for field trips.
- Deals with administrative and financial follow-up after field missions.
- Contributes to the preparation of institutional reports, minutes of meetings, and other written reporting.
- Drafts a weekly update on the humanitarian and security environment.
- Contributes to good working relations with the ERCS in the AoR.
Required Experience
- 2–3 years’ experience, for instance as a project or programme officer in similar fields or in other national/international organizations or in the private sector.
- And/or: 1–2 years’ programme/project experience with the ICRC or other humanitarian agency.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or university degree.
- Computer literacy.
