Sub-National Mine Action Coordinator

Job Posting Organization:
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is an international humanitarian organization founded in Denmark in 195

• With a mission to assist refugees and internally displaced persons globally, DRC provides emergency aid, advocates for their rights, and strengthens their opportunities for a better future. The organization has grown to employ over 7,000 staff and 8,000 volunteers, operating in multiple countries, including conflict-affected areas and regions where refugees settle. DRC's vision is to ensure a dignified life for all displaced individuals, guided by core values such as humanity, respect, independence, neutrality, participation, honesty, and transparency. In Syria, DRC has been active since 2008, initially addressing the Iraqi refugee crisis and later expanding its efforts to respond to the ongoing Syria crisis since 201
• DRC Syria employs an area-based approach to support internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, and host communities across various sectors, including Economic Recovery and Resilience, Protection, WASH, Shelter and Infrastructure, and Humanitarian Disarmament and Peacebuilding. The organization is committed to rapid response mechanisms to address emerging crises and ensure sustainable solutions for fragile communities, with active programs in neighboring countries such as Jordan, Lebanon, Türkiye, and Iraq, facilitating a cross-border response to the Syria crisis.

Job Overview:
The Sub-National Mine Action (MA) Coordinator plays a crucial role in ensuring effective coordination among mine action partners at the sub-national level. This position is essential for harmonizing mine action activities, aligning them with national priorities and humanitarian planning processes, and ensuring that they are informed by operational and community realities. The Coordinator is expected to act on behalf of the sector rather than any individual organization, maintaining neutrality, impartiality, independence, and transparency in all coordination functions. The role requires strong skills in coordination, representation, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement, along with a solid understanding of humanitarian mine action and the operational context in Syria. The job description may be revised to reflect changes in the humanitarian landscape. It is important to note that the Sub-National Mine Action Coordinator contributes to collective humanitarian coordination and does not hold operational authority over mine action organizations or activities. The emphasis of this position is on cooperation, coordination, coherence, and representation of humanitarian mine action priorities and needs. The initial contract duration is six months, subject to funding and developments.

Duties and Responsibilities:
The Sub-National Mine Action Coordinator is responsible for various key duties, including:

• Representation and Coordination: Representing the Mine Action Area of Responsibility (AoR) in sub-national coordination meetings and forums, ensuring that mine action priorities and operational realities are reflected in humanitarian discussions and planning. Providing regular updates on contamination trends, incidents, access constraints, and operational developments at the sub-national level. Supporting coherent engagement between mine action actors in southern Syria.
• Facilitation of Sub-National Mine Action Coordination: Convening and facilitating regular sub-national mine action coordination meetings, preparing and circulating agendas, meeting minutes, and action points. Promoting effective information sharing and coordination among mine action partners and facilitating support to other sectors as needed. Identifying operational gaps, duplications, emerging risks, and coordination challenges, and escalating them as necessary. Supporting collective prioritization discussions and promoting complementarity between actors.
• Information Management and Analysis: Maintaining regular communication with the national mine action coordination team, collecting and sharing information related to contamination, incidents, access constraints, and operational developments. Disseminating national guidance, standards, advocacy messages, and coordination updates to field-level partners. Contributing to humanitarian analysis, mapping, and reporting related to mine action activities and contamination impact.
• Technical and Strategic Support: Supporting the integration of mine action considerations into area-based humanitarian planning and response discussions, promoting linkages between mine action and other sectors such as Protection, Shelter, WASH, Health, and Education. Providing explosive ordnance risk and contamination-related information to humanitarian actors and coordination structures. Supporting advocacy efforts related to humanitarian access, civilian protection, and contamination-related humanitarian impact.
• Humanitarian Principles and Accountability: Upholding humanitarian principles, ensuring a clear separation between coordination responsibilities and organizational operational interests, and managing any conflicts of interest appropriately. Promoting principled, inclusive, and community-informed coordination approaches.
• Incident and Emergency Coordination: Notifying the national coordination team of significant incidents, accidents, or urgent coordination matters, and supporting rapid liaison and coordination among partners during emergencies or contamination-related incidents.
• Undertaking any other tasks as required by the HMA Operations Manager and Head of HDP.

Required Qualifications:
The position requires a minimum of 3–5 years of experience in humanitarian coordination, humanitarian mine action, protection, or related humanitarian sectors. A good understanding of humanitarian coordination systems, including cluster/AoR structures, is essential. Knowledge of humanitarian mine action principles, terminology, and operational approaches, including Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE), Non-Technical Survey (NTS), and land release concepts, is necessary. The candidate should have experience engaging with NGOs, UN agencies, authorities, and local stakeholders, along with strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills. Experience working in complex and conflict-affected environments is crucial, as well as strong analytical, reporting, and information management skills. The ability to work independently while maintaining neutrality in coordination functions is also required. Familiarity with the Syria humanitarian response architecture is highly desirable.

Educational Background:
Candidates must possess a university degree in humanitarian affairs, international relations, social sciences, mine action, or another relevant field. Equivalent relevant field experience may be accepted in lieu of formal education, allowing for flexibility in the educational requirements for this position.

Experience:
The role requires a minimum of 3–5 years of relevant experience in humanitarian coordination, humanitarian mine action, protection, or related sectors. This experience should include a solid understanding of humanitarian coordination systems and the operational context in conflict-affected areas, particularly in relation to mine action.

Languages:
Professional fluency in Arabic and English, both written and spoken, is required for this position. This bilingual proficiency is essential for effective communication and coordination with various stakeholders in the humanitarian sector.

Additional Notes:
The contract length for this position is six months, with the possibility of extension subject to funding availability. The salary level is classified as Non-Management – G 2, in accordance with DRC's salary scale. The position is based in Damascus, with expected travel throughout the country. The anticipated start date for this role is 1 July 202

• Interested candidates are encouraged to apply by submitting a cover letter and an updated CV, both in the same language as the vacancy note. Applications must be submitted before the closing date of 31 May 202
• DRC reserves the right to conduct tests and interviews before the closing date and may close the advertisement earlier if a suitable candidate is found.