Regional Climate and Resilience Coordinator

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, with a network of 192-member National Societies. The overall aim of the IFRC is “to inspire, encourage, facilitate, and promote at all times all forms of humanitarian activities by National Societies with a view to preventing and alleviating human suffering and thereby contributing to the maintenance and promotion of human dignity and peace in the world.”

The IFRC works to meet the needs and improve the lives of vulnerable people before, during and after disasters, health emergencies and other crises. The MENA regional office based in Beirut; Lebanon supports 17 national societies in the region. The MENA Disasters, Climate and Crises (prevention, response and recovery) unit within the MENA regional provides the technical support & quality assurance to country cluster support teams and country offices. 

The Regional Climate and Resilience Coordinator will be responsible for achieving the results identified for DRR and Climate Action in the IFRC Plan & Budget and to ensure the adaptation of the relevant climate change, disaster risk and resilience frameworks, strategies, guidance and tools of IFRC to the context and needs in the MENA region with a particular focus on but not limited to consequences of climate change and urban risks as well the hazards in Fragility, Conflict, and Violence settings.

S/he supports the IFRC network to ensure high quality, coherent and well-coordinated risk informed assessments, programme design and implementation, capacity development and knowledge sharing including peer-to-peer support. S/he will focus on developing and strengthening community capacities to better reduce risks, anticipate, prepare for, respond to and recover from shocks/adversities/disasters through integrated and sustainable approaches.