Job Responsibilities

• Ensure adherence to NRC, CCS, and donor policies, tools, handbooks, and guidelines relevant to area-based coordination and multi-sectoral response.
• Lead the facilitation and coordination at the area level, ensuring inclusive, neutral, and solutions-oriented engagement of humanitarian and development actors.
• Contribute to strategic planning and alignment with national and state-level coordination structures, including sector clusters, the INGO Forum, OCHA, and the A-ICCG.
• Support the design, implementation, and adaptation of joint response strategies and operational plans based on identified needs, service mapping, and gaps analysis.
• Promote linkages and coordination with private sector actors, local networks, and Chambers of Commerce to strengthen market-based programming and economic recovery initiatives where relevant.
• Support capacity strengthening, learning exchanges, and peer-to-peer engagement among local and international partners.
• Ensure proper documentation and information sharing in line with organizational data management policies.
• Identify lessons learned, promote adaptive management approaches, and contribute to continuous improvement of the area-based coordination model.
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management  
• Programmatic Coordination & Strategic Alignment
• Lead and facilitate the ABC platform at the state level, ensuring regular coordination meetings are inclusive, neutral, and solutions oriented.
• Participate in the A-ICCG meetings to ensure alignment with sector strategies, especially in relation to technical standards, referral pathways, and cross-cutting concerns
• Ensure alignment with existing national and state-level coordination structures (e.g., clusters, INGO Forum, OCHA) 
• Facilitate joint planning between humanitarian actors across all clusters.
• Collaborate closely with SI’s ERM and 48Hr ERRM and any other relevant field focal points and ensure coordination of first line and second line response strategies.
• Support coordination with private sector actors, Chambers of Commerce, and local networks to enhance market-based programming where relevant.
• Identify key response gaps and facilitate joint resource planning or referrals to address them in coordination with the A-ICCG and relevant clusters.
•  With support from the IM Manager, maintain a live, up to date to existing service mapping platform capturing who is doing what, where, and with what capacity. This complements existing cluster efforts and avoid duplication or contributing to reporting fatigue.
• Facilitate the rollout of shared tools, including multi-sectoral registration formats, referral trackers, and dashboards.
• Contribute to the development of localized response strategies and area plans based on needs analysis and data from ERM, CCS, and cluster partners.
• Track and document referrals between partners and support accountability and feedback loops across actors. 
• Ensure that service mapping, referral tracking, and other data outputs are integrated into OCHA and cluster IM systems, contributing to national dashboards and SitReps as appropriate.
• In coordination with OCHA/HAWG, support the engagement with local authorities to discuss and advocate on access-related issues where deemed appropriate by OCHA/HAWG and INGO forum.
• Support learning exchanges between actors on best practices in integrated, area-based programming.
• Identify local capacity gaps and collaborate with CCS and relevant clusters to organize training or mentoring, not limited to technical gaps.
• Capture lessons learned, support after-action reviews, and contribute to adaptive management of the ABC model.
• Encourage equitable participation of local actors through co-chairing opportunities, rotating facilitation, and adapted meeting modalities that consider access and resourcing constraints.