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Job title: Community Liaison Officer (National Contract)

Employment category:  H1

Reporting to: DDG Project Manager

Unit/department: DDG Tunisia

Location: Ben Guerdane,

Authorization level: N/A

Overall purpose of the role:

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is an international non-governmental organization, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by vulnerable people affected by conflict and instability all over the world. Danish Demining Group (DDG) is a specialized unit within DRC that focuses on community safety programming. DDG strives to identify safety and security needs from the perspective of those living in conflict areas and to help them find non-violent solutions. These go beyond traditional mine action activities to include violence reduction, programming that specifically seeks to engage communities in addressing root causes of conflict and local safety and security challenges.

DRC/DDG has been working in the region in Libya and Tunisia since 2011. DDG has been present in Tunisia since 2014 working on enhancing community security and resilience in the border towns of Dehiba and Ben Guerdane. In 2016, DDG built on this engagement to develop a cross-border programme between southern Tunisia and border towns in western Libya.  The aim is to continue working on community safety and resilience by implementing community dialogue, conflict prevention and management activities as well with the aim of building relations and cross-border initiatives.

The Community Liaison Officer, in coordination with project staff, supervised by the Project Manager, is expected to:

• Contribute to direct implementation of day-to-day project activities
• Engage local stakeholders and community members in DDG programming
• Contribute to reporting and an active culture of organizational learning

Responsibilities:

Programming

• Monthly and daily work planning for implementation of project activities in your location
• Contribute to ongoing conflict analysis and inputs to the Conflict Incident tracker and provide feedback to the Project Manager on changes in local conflict dynamics and possible impact on the programming
• Directly participate in day-to-day implementation of project activities including mobilization of communities, facilitation of dialogue sessions, training and mentoring conflict prevention and management committee members as well as liaise with Libya CLOs on cross-border initiatives
• Develop and maintain relationships with local stakeholders, including community leaders as well as security providers and civil authorities in your location
• Mobilize key target groups for DDG activities
• Participate in coordination meetings

Operations

• Arrange logistics in preparation of the different activities in coordination with support staff
• Adhere to safety, logistics/procurement, HR and DRC/DDG Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Reporting and Learning

• Contribute to regular reporting and documentation of project activities
• Promote a culture of learning with the team and actively share challenges and lessons learned

Suggested starting date : 1 December 2019

Length of contract / contract expiry / end of funds : 12 Months