Title: Safety Coordinator
Location: Addis Ababa, with travel to field locations throughout the country.
Reports to: Country Director with technical management from the Regional Safety Coordinator.
Salary and conditions: In accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of National staff.
Start of Contract & Duration: One Year
Availability: As Soon as possible
Posting date: April 25, 2018
INTRODUCTION
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is an independent, non-profit organization (NGO), founded on the basis of humanitarian principles, and human rights based approach, to secure the protection of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), and to promote long term solutions to the problems of forced displacement.
BACKGROUND
DRC has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of Africa since 1997. Using a human rights framework, the DRC East Africa and Yemen (EAY) operation focuses mainly on populations affected by displacement in Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, South Sudan and Yemen and regional mixed migration flows. DRC aims to create a synergy between the different humanitarian aid and development projects in EAY – both in terms of geographical coverage and types of activities implemented in support of refugees and populations displaced or otherwise affected by conflict, consequences of climate change and natural hazards in the region.
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES
The Ethiopia Safety Coordinator will be responsible for the implementation of the DRC safety risk management system (SRMS) in Ethiopia. This will be done in close cooperation with the Ethiopia Country Director, the relevant Area Managers, and the Regional Safety Coordinator.
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
To support the Ethiopia country program in managing safety risks through the implementation of DRC’s SRMS in Ethiopia. This will include safety assessments, training, and both introducing and maintaining sound safety management structures to address the safety challenges facing DRC programming in Ethiopia.
SPECIFIC TASKS
ABOUT YOU
To be successful in this role, we expect you to be a positive, mature leader with experience in safety management. You are an effective people manager and enjoy working with teams of committed staff to build collaboration and capacity in support of country operations.
In this position, you will also be expected to demonstrate DRC’s five core competencies:
PERSONAL SPECIFICATIONS
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
GENERAL
Commitments: