National Tribal Engagement Officer, Ninewa (Qayarrah and Jadda camp)

Context/Reporting line:

In Iraq, IOM’s Community Stabilization Unit (CSU) aims to address the drivers of conflict and displacement through a community driven and led approach to promote resilience, social cohesion, and improved mental and emotional wellbeing in target areas. Through five integrated pillars: Social cohesion, MHPSS and Protection, Livelihoods, Community Service and Quick Impact Projects, and CVE/PVE programming, IOM’s stabilization program supports IDPs and returnees to regain a sense of safety and security, increase self- and community efficacy, and develop tools to deal with the past and regain hope and agency in the future.

As the Government of Iraq (GOI) moves forward with camp closure and consolidation, there is an urgent need to address barriers to safe and dignified return of IDPs. Families who face complex barriers to return, including those with perceived affiliation to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), require tailored support that can help them to address complex return and reintegration challenges, including stigmatization, systematic lack of access to civil documentation, rejection by communities in areas of origin, risk of retributive attacks, and, in some cases, banishment from communities or tribes.

Under the overall supervision of the Head of Community Stabilization Unit, and the direct supervision of the Senior Tribal Engagement Officer, the National Tribal Engagement Officer will be responsible for the implementation and monitoring of IOM’s tribal engagement activities.

Core Functions / Responsibilities

1. Oversee IOM’s Tribal Engagement programming in Nineveh, including program design, operational needs, staff supervision, budgeting, and reporting.
2. Train and mentor field staff and Community Focal Points engaged in Tribal Engagement and durable solutions programming, promoting conflict sensitivity and do-no-harm principles. Follow up with the field teams to quality check data and service delivery and follow up with the workplans and make recommendations, in coordination with the Senior Officer.
3. Ensure timely and effective execution of Tribal Engagement activities and operational plans in Nineveh, as well as efficient, transparent, and accountable use of allocated funding.
4. Complete timely write-up of progress and findings of the Tribal Engagement processes.
5. Provide technical oversight and day-to-day supervision of field staff working in Jeddah camp (and other designated locations, as they arise) who are engaged in CSU’s programming to facilitate returns via coordination with the Tribal Affairs Directorate.
6. Support in planning, coordination, and implementation of the Quick Impact Projects (QIPs)
7. Conduct regular travel to areas of IDP return (which may include Nineveh, Anbar, Salah al Din, Diyala, and other areas as relevant) in order to address relevant issues with provincial tribal committees and local authorities.
8. In coordination with Camp Management and Protection Partners, identify families with social cohesion barriers to return. This includes but not limited to
   
   (a) updating specific sub-district level details of those IDPs
   
   (b) Prepare written reports to be shared with Tribal Affairs Directorate on the district level location of IDPs with social cohesion barriers to return (exclusive of AoO and no further personal or biometric data to be shared without protection team approval).
9. Proactively coordinate with the tribal affairs directorate on the action plan, including direct coordination with the tribal affairs committee members and ensure camp management approval of committee’s planned activities in Jedda’h IDP camp.
10. Liaise with protection team, protection partner, camp management and directorate of tribal affairs to organize meetings in Jeddah between Tribal affairs committee members and IDPs of concern. Ensuring access permit facilitation for members of the committee to Jedd’ah and the presence of protection partner during those meetings. Ensure camp management approval of planned activities in Jeddah camp and prepare analytical or policy documents to document these plans (as required).
11. Ensure adequate systems are followed to maintain strict confidentiality. Develop and maintain internal control and compliance processes and recommend actions to the Senior Officer on how to strengthen those controls; Ensure robust protection mainstreaming, and that do-no-harm principles are incorporated into all projects and activities.
12. Perform such other duties as may be assigned by the direct supervisor