About the role

ICRC Police and Gendarmerie Delegate focusing on dialogue with armed forces to enhance humanitarian efforts in various conflict situations. Coordination of strategies to prevent and respond to humanitarian consequences of armed conflict.

Responsibilities

Participate in the development of ICRC delegation’s strategy, plan of action to prevent and respond to humanitarian consequences and in its activities to alleviate suffering from armed conflict and OSV.
Provide real-time technical analysis of conflict/violence dynamics and advise and support delegations on dialogue with arms carriers.
Assess the impact of law enforcement operations and work with the authorities supporting them in their efforts to assess the need for change and improvement for legally compliant operations.
Provide expertise on the setting of a dedicated / tailor-made PGE program aiming at preventing and responding to humanitarian consequences caused by arms carriers during law enforcement operations.
Support national efforts to integrate International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Human Rights Law (IHRL) and application of international rules and standards into police doctrine, training, education, and relevant aspects of operations.
Expose arms carriers to relevant law and the ICRC’s mandate and activities through bilateral dialogue and appropriate training initiatives (including pre-deployment briefings for police contingents).
Contribute to the delegation’s security assessments and to its access to areas with humanitarian concerns.
Maintain and develop a network of contacts, ensuring substantive engagement with armed, police, security command structures and institutions (at a national, regional and international level).

Ideal age: 40 to 55 years old.
Police career: Minimum of 15 years professional experience in police-related positions (or equivalent such as Gendarmerie or another policing/law enforcement agency) - amongst which minimum of 5 years of recent operational experience in the following fields: crowd control, training, judicial/criminal investigation, and leadership.
A minimum of 1 year (accumulated) operational international experience as a law enforcement officer.
Good knowledge of the international principles on the use of law enforcement responsibilities and powers.
Proficiency in English language is mandatory (C1 level minimum - according to the European framework of the reference for languages).
Proficiency in a second language either; French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian or Portuguese (a minimum of C1 level is required, with a strong preference for French).