Economic Security Policy & Partnerships Advisor

What We Do

Since 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has worked to preserve human dignity and relieve suffering caused by war and armed violence.

Since 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has worked to preserve human dignity and relieve suffering caused by war and armed violence. In collaboration with our Red Cross and Red Crescent partners around the world, we do everything we can to deliver life-saving aid, reconnect families and locate missing people – helping those who need it most, regardless of who they are and what side of the front line they are on.

We engage with authorities and armed forces on all sides, often confidentially, pressing for access to detainees to improve their living conditions and urging compliance with international humanitarian law to protect non-combatants, including from digital threats.

The ICRC’s Economic Security (Eco Sec) Unit works to protect and restore people’s ability to meet their essential needs with dignity in situations of conflict and violence, combining emergency relief, livelihood support and nutrition programming, complemented by engagement on food security as a protection and IHL issue. As this positioning becomes more central to the ICRC’s protection and policy dialogue, the Unit is building dedicated capacity to lead its policy narrative, guidance and external engagement, starting with this newly created role.

The Eco Sec Policy & Partnerships Advisor is Eco Sec’s first dedicated policy role, shaping the narrative, guidance and external positioning that underpin the Unit’s priorities. The role operationalizes Eco Sec’s contribution to Protection and IHL through development of relevant processes, methods and tools for field teams while contributing to Eco Sec’s engagement with policy, donor and partnership counterparts internally and externally.

• Head of the Eco Sec Unit

• Leads the development of Eco Sec’s policy positions, narrative and guidance, ensuring they reflect and reinforce the Unit’s  and subsequent priorities and are aligned with ICRC’s mandate and Institutional Strategy.
• In collaboration with the Eco Sec Head of Data & Analytics, analyses qualitative and quantitative evidence from Eco Sec field programmes and secondary sources to inform policy and support Eco Sec and ICRC decision-making.
• Maintains a high-level understanding of the global policy environment relevant to food and economic security and anticipates emerging trends and debates.

• Leads the development of processes, models and guidance that enable field teams to document and analyse the impact of conduct of hostilities on food systems, markets, supply chains and other objects indispensable to survival, adapting Water and Habitat’s existing data collection and analysis frameworks where feasible and supporting field teams directly in applying these methods; this builds Eco Sec’s contribution to protection through field analysis, complementary to HQ-led analysis of global trends.
• Engages extensively with Protection and Legal (JUR) colleagues to align Eco Sec’s analytical approaches with institutional priorities and works with Protection’s Open Source Information (OSI) team to strengthen the use of OSI methods in analysing hostilities’ impact on food and economic systems.

• Ensures Eco Sec’s policy and analytical approaches are aligned with Health, Water/Habitat and Weapons Contamination policy approaches, supporting continued institutional efforts towards integrated approaches to public health and…