Head of Non-Technical Studies Team At Danish Refugee Council

The Danish Refugee Council ( DRC ) is one of the world’s leading humanitarian NGOs, working in over 40 countries to provide appropriate assistance with a rights-based approach to refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, returnees and migrants.

Our vision is to help refugees, internally displaced people and their host communities to a dignified life. We protect lives and human rights and empower beneficiaries throughout conflict displacement by providing shelter, food and hope in terms of work, education and integration towards a sustainable future.

DRC established an operational presence in Colombia in 2011 with a focus on Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) and providing support to the conflict-affected population in the south of the country. With the onset of large mixed migration flows into Colombia due to the Venezuelan crisis, DRC initiated an integrated humanitarian response in 2018 to meet the urgent needs of refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, Colombian returnees, and host communities in some of the most vulnerable areas of Colombia, such as the Caribbean coastal areas (Riohacha and Barranquilla), urban centers (Bogotá and Cundinamarca), and Caquetá. In 2021, DRC opened field offices on the South Pacific coast in the department of Nariño and the northern part of Colombia in Norte de Santander and Bolívar.

Job Objective: Supervise and control the activities of your team in the investigation and analysis of information that allows you to determine the status of the assigned areas and determine if they are contaminated with explosive devices or free of suspicion of these, in accordance with the NTC-AICMA and the POA of the organization. In addition, you must carry out different training and courses for staff when required by the ACM program.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for collecting information to determine the status of the assigned sectors and to determine whether they are free of suspected AE or contaminated.
• Organize an information network that includes authorities, communities, NGOs and other possible sources of information.
• Responsible for planning the collection of information in the field.
• Responsible for analyzing the information obtained in the field and that obtained in the municipal file in order to define the status of the assigned sectors (free or not of suspicion of AE).
• Serve as a liaison for local representatives at different levels, in the assigned areas of responsibility.
• Assess needs at the village or district level and establish priorities in cooperation with the entire interested community at the local level.
• Report all studies carried out and their resolution to the ENT supervisor, so that he/she can carry out his/her review.
• Cooperate and coordinate closely with all humanitarian mine action activities.
• Ensure that all information collected is recorded in the formats established by the OACP authority.
• Collect information from communities through direct interviews or focus group discussions when required.
• Responsible for your own safety and that of all team members.
• Any other duties as directed by the ENT supervisor.

Logistics and resources :

• Ensure that the equipment and resources provided are used correctly, keeping them in perfect working order (cleanliness and care).
• Immediately report all damage and/or loss of materials/equipment to the ENT Supervisor.
• You must comply with traffic laws, vehicle care and maintenance, and any other regulations that ensure the care of the vehicle.
• Support daily maintenance activities in areas inhabited by DRC, camp, demining areas and others related to the organization.

Medical Support, Command and Control:

• Maintain up-to-date first aid and MEDEVAC skills as instructed by the organization.
• Know in detail the MEDEVAC Plans at your work site, base, camps and/or on the road.
• Assist the person in charge at all times in the execution of MEDEVAC in the event of an accident.

Safety and Health at Work

• Actively participate in the formation of the COPASST – Workplace Coexistence Committee – Emergency Brigades, as well as the activities they carry out.
• Comply with the rules, regulations and instructions of the SST SG.
• Report any potential hazards and risks at your workplace in a timely manner.
• Attend SST training defined by the SG-SST training program.
• Ensure that your workplace and work area are kept in order and clean.
• Provide clear, truthful and complete information about your health status.
• Immediately report any work accidents, incidents (near accidents) and illnesses diagnosed as occupational to the SST area and your immediate supervisor.
• Report to the immediate supervisor the need to take corrective or preventive actions, which correspond to real or potential non-conformities of the process to which it belongs.
• Participate in training activities, drills and those scheduled by occupational health and safety.

Cross-cutting responsibilities :

• Attend special training as required.
• Apply humanitarian and DRC principles in the exercise of their functions.
• Be willing to perform other tasks, in which DRC-ACM trains you, for the best fulfillment of the program’s objectives and indicators, for example, performing Community Liaison duties, clearing team leader, or vehicle driver.
• Comply with the organization’s code of conduct.

All DRC staff are expected to undertake the following general duties:

• Work within the framework of DRC’s core values ​​and standards.
• Be familiar with and adhere to all DRC policies and procedures.

Experience and technical skills:

• Two (2) years of experience working with communities.
• Demonstrable ability in humanitarian demining work such as Clearance, ENT, Quality Control.
• Computer management and data acquisition.
• Driving license B1-B2.

Desirable:

• Technician or Technologist in some area of ​​knowledge.
• Have basic skills in using technological tools.
• Basic demining course.
• Experience in similar positions in other humanitarian demining organizations.

All DRC roles require the incumbent to master the DRC core competencies:

• Achieving excellence: focusing on achieving results and ensuring efficient processes
• Collaboration: Involve relevant parties and encourage feedback
• Taking the initiative: taking ownership and initiative while pursuing innovation
• Communicate: Listen and speak effectively and honestly
• Demonstrating integrity: acting in accordance with DRC’s vision and values

We offer:

• The opportunity to belong to one of the best NGOs worldwide.
• Employment contract: fixed-term of 6 months with all legal benefits, renewable based on performance and availability of funds.
• Salary: Starting at minimum wage during the accreditation period, subsequently starting at $2,919,000
• Start date: Subject to allocation of funds.
• Prepaid medicine, 100% coverage of the policy for the employee and special price for beneficiaries.
• Access to over 1,000 free online trainings and certificates.
• Salary and conditions in accordance with the terms of employment in Colombia.

Application Process:

All applicants must upload a cover letter (maximum one page) and a current resume (no more than four pages)

If you apply, it is understood that you are immediately available to work in these locations: Southern Colombia, municipalities of Caquetá.

Applications sent by email will not be considered!

Closing date for applications : Monday, January 6, 2025 11:59 pm Local Time. Please register through the website www.drc.ngo . Id 172808/ Position: Head of Non-Technical Studies Team

The applicant who applies for this call authorizes DRC to validate the personal information provided in the resume. Your identification will be verified in public and private databases for the exclusive use of validating the information, in accordance with our anti-fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing policies.

The applicant who freely and voluntarily wishes to take part in the selection process to fill the position of this call, must strictly adhere to the rules that apply to the subject (suitability of the degrees presented, execution of tests on a personal and individual basis and veracity of the information) adhering to the DRC manuals and anti-fraud policies, under penalty of declaring disqualified the applicant who incurs in any irregularity in the opinion of the organization, even by mere suspicion, and even in possible criminal conduct according to Colombian legislation.