Fsl Coordinator

**About us**:
**Desired start date: 15th April 24**
**Duration of the mission: 6 months with possibility to extend**
**Location: Hassakeh or Erbil**

**SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL (SI)** is an international humanitarian aid association which, since more than 40 years, has been providing assistance to populations affected by armed conflicts and natural disasters by meeting their basic needs for food, water and shelter. Particularly committed to the fight against diseases linked to unsafe water, the leading cause of death in the world, SI's interventions provide expertise in the field of access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene promotion, but also in the essential area of food security and livelihoods. Present in some twenty countries, the SI teams - 2500 people in total, made up of expatriates, national staff, permanent staff at HQ, and a few volunteers - intervene with professionalism and commitment while respecting cultural norms.

**About the mission**:
To enhance technical support for our field teams and better respond to the evolving context**, Syria and Iraq mission have merged** and decentralized programmatic support under the **Eastern Hub. **This hub oversees operations in northeast Syria (NES) and Iraq and is managed by a Hub Director, with support from a Deputy Hub Director responsible for Programs.

SI programmatic strategy is tailored to the specific needs of the two main areas within the Eastern Hub: NES and Iraq.

**NES.** The strategy consists of three main components. The first axis aims at providing emergency lifesaving assistance to populations affected by new shocks. This includes a range of basic emergency activities: water trucking, installation of emergency WASH infrastructures, emergency MPCA, distribution of WASH/Shelter emergency NFIs. The second axis of NES strategy provides assistance to IDPs and host communities affected by degraded living conditions. Under this axis, SI aims at improving communities’ living conditions (through rehabilitation of private shelter, ensuring better access to safe water storage and sanitation), ensuring communities’ basic needs (through safe water supply, WASH and shelter kits distributions, food vouchers and multi-round MPCA), and improving their access to livelihoods (through support to small-scall food and livestock production, MPCA with a contiguum approach, IGA, WASH infrastructure maintenance). Building resilience amongst communities to enable them to adapt to water scarcity, climate change and economic crisis stands as the third axis of this strategy. It encompasses activities aiming at adapting to water scarcity (through maintenance of water infrastructures, agro-ecology, installation of alternatives energy sources for more sustained water-supply systems, conduction of studies on soil and water, etc.), fostering resilience to economic crisis (through supporting and developing private businesses, rehabilitating community asses and support micro-economy initiatives), and building the resilience to new shock (development of DRR approaches, development of local governance capacities, improving surveillance systems). To support this strategy, SI intends to develop further its local partnerships and supports to technical departments, while continuing to be highly active in various humanitarian coordination platforms.

Donors currently supporting SI response in NES are the following: ECHO, BHA, FPI, CDCS, GIZ.

**Iraq’s **humanitarian context has evolved significantly in recent years. The global trend has shifted towards longer-term and sustainable solutions for IDPs, returnees, refugees and host communities. SI is adapting to this shift by incorporating climate change considerations into its strategy, particularly focusing on strengthening communities’ resilience by improving integrated water and natural resources management, as well as economic support to strengthen populations’ resilience at risk against severe consequences of climate change. Under this axis, SI works at community level with local civil society organizations and provides support for capacity sharing between organizations. This approach is complemented by activities aiming at strengthening communities and individuals’ resilience and economic security by improving their access to sustainable and climate smart livelihoods. SI implements livelihoods activities through catchment/watershed areas based approach, and intends to start agroecology activities in the near future through local partnerships. Eventually, SI Iraq’ strategy aims at developing and mainstreaming DRR activities and improving preparedness and response capacities within communities to strengthen their resilience to shocks and disasters.

Donors currently supporting SI response in Iraq are the following: AFD, CDCS, Belgium MOFA.

**About the job**:
**General objective**:

- The FSL Coordinator for Northeast Syria (NES) and Iraq, as technical advisor of the “Eastern Hub” of the Syria-Iraq mission,