YEMEN - EMERGENCY FIELD COORDINATOR (F/M) - ADEN (SRH06059) Yemen
General objective:
The Emergency Field Coordinator, in coordination with the Technical Coordinators and under the leadership of the Country Director and DCD - Programmes, leads the Emergency Field Team and implements SI's emergency response strategy across all active governorates. They actively coordinate with humanitarian partners, clusters, and local authorities to identify emergency needs, address response gaps, and propose appropriate actions. The Coordinator closely monitors security in operational areas, negotiating access to hard-to-reach zones. They oversee support departments, ensuring adherence to SI procedures. As Field Coordinator, they hold Programmes and HR responsibility, ensuring donor compliance and timely emergency responses to alerts.
The main challenges:
The Emergency Field Coordinator will require a strong emergency mindset to impulse a new modality as first-responder in a team that has often operated as second-liner. Specific challenges associated with the position relate to implementing emergency response programming in Yemen; i.e. insecurity and access constraints (including administrative access constraints), challenging coordination between humanitarian actors along with poor reliability of secondary data in hard to reach locations. The Emergency Preparedness and Response Strategy 2023/24 for the Yemen Mission has recently been developed and needs a strong leader for actual implementation.
Priorities for the 2/3 first months:
1) lead and follow closely the implementation of the new EU delegation livelihood project
2) Steer the development of key investments, studies and concept notes for kickstarting new programmatic approaches mainly in the livelihood sector and towards different donors. Be the driving force for putting new FSL activities into place
3) Reinforce integration of priority crosscutting elements: Protection mainstreaming, environment/CC
Security constraints:
The security situation in Aden (where the staff is expected to spend 50 to 70% of her/his time) remains unstable and volatile notwithstanding the distance from frontlines. Risks related to high proliferation of weapons, radicalization and potential jihadi attacks remain significant. Due to the above, movements for international staff remain highly constrained, with a limited number of public places (some cafes, restaurants and supermarket) validated for movements during daytime. Curfew time is at 10:00 PM.
SI will offer you
A salaried position:
According to experience, starting from EUR 3080 gross per month (2800 base salary + 10% annual leave allowance paid monthly) and a monthly Per Diem of USD 750.
SI also covers accommodation costs and travel expenses between the expatriate's country of origin and the place of assignment.
Breaks: During the assignment, a system of alternation between work and time off is implemented at the rate of 7 working days every two months (with a USD 850 break allowance, allocated by Sl). To these breaks periods, SI grants one (1) additional rest day per month worked.
Insurance package: Expatriates benefit from an insurance package which refunds all healthcare expenses (including medical and surgical expenses, dental care and ophthalmological expenses, repatriation) and a welfare system including war risks. Essential vaccination and antimalarial treatment costs are refunded.
LIVING CONDITIONS:
The GH offers good levels of comfort, all rooms are individual and spacious. Common spaces include TV, pool table, gym material. Food availability is sufficiently diverse. There is a female friendly flat.