Emergency Food Security Officer ER-006

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***NOTE*** - THIS POSITION IS TO APPLY TO A STAND BY ROSTER FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (ERT).

Candidates selected for this position will be placed on the ERT standby roster and may be called when the International Medical Corps ERT responds to an emergency. This position is not compensated unless candidates are responding to an emergency response.

When catastrophe hits, International Medical Corps is often one of the first humanitarian aid organizations on the scene—providing rapid and effective aid that saves lives, reduces suffering, and promotes self reliance.

International Medical Corps has established an International Emergency Roster to ensure that emergency positions are filled in a timely manner with professionally qualified, gender balanced, geographically diverse, linguistically able and a highly motivated corps of professionals. The team includes coordinators, logisticians, doctors and water and sanitation experts. It also includes specialists who focus on protection, prevention of sexual violence and aid for rape survivors and mental health.

Emergency Response Team (ERT) members are always on standby to deploy to a crisis within 72 hours, whether they are launching into new areas or lending support to International Medical Corps teams already on the ground.

International Medical Corps maintains a roster of staff which is updated on regular basis in order to include new staff into the system. This also provides an opportunity for the existing staff to update their areas of expertise and other relevant information.

Through this expression of Interest, applicants are encouraged to submit their profiles so that their information is readily available in the International Medical Corps applicant tracking system.



JOB SUMMARY
The purpose of the Emergency Food Security Officer position on the International Medical Corps Emergency Response Team (ERT) is to assist International Medical Corps in delivering life-saving programs in disasters in a holistic and sustainable way, keeping in mind how the emergency response will set the ground for transitions and development programming. The FSO will technically be supervised and supported by the International Medical Corps’s Food Security Advisor and Nutrition and Food Security (NFS) Department Director based at headquarters.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES:
• Conduct initial sector-specific assessments and make technical recommendations for appropriate activities, both for initial disaster response phase and for longer-term disaster risk reduction or rebuilding of livelihoods. .

• At the field level, provide assessments of the agricultural situation as it relates to food security and nutrition. Be able to assess seed needs and the parameters of the problem, whether acute or chronic, and make recommendations to the International Medical Corps ERT and to headquarters on how to best respond to those needs programmatically.

• At the field level, conduct assessments of the food and livelihoods situation as it relates to and their impact on nutrition. Be able to assess food and livelihood needs and the parameters of the problem, whether acute or chronic, and make recommendations to the International Medical Corps ERT and to headquarters on how to best respond to those needs programmatically.

• Actively represent International Medical Corps in food security, agriculture, and livelihood sector discussions and activities, serve as an International Medical Corps agriculture and food security sector resource person, and display technical and organizational leadership in sectoral activity commensurate with the role as a primary resource person for agriculture and food security on the International Medical Corps Emergency Response Team.

• Coordinate International Medical Corps’s Food Security response and recovery activities across a wide range of actors within International Medical Corps, donors, host governments, UN and NGO partners to ensure consistency of programming.

• Actively participate and represent IMC in country-based Food Security Cluster meetings.

• Develop the food security and livelihood program strategies, with support from NFS, for the specific disaster response

• Assist in development of, or provide technical review for, emergency response proposals to be submitted by International Medical Corps to ensure that proposed activities and programs align with best practice in the food security sector. As appropriate, apply new developments in the agriculture and food security sector to International Medical Corps programming.

• If appropriate during the response, provide technical support to assist in the development of disaster risk reduction programs that mitigate the effects of disasters on populations and communities; identify disaster mitigation measures, where appropriate, that could be linked to disaster response activities.