Senior Officer, National Cholera Plans (NCP) Financing and Strategic Engagement

Organizational Context

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian network, with 191 member National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. IFRC uses the Triple R – response, resilience and respect – to deliver on Strategy 2030. IFRC responds to disasters and crises, ensuring timely, coordinated and locally led humanitarian action. IFRC supports its members in building community resilience in the areas of climate and environment, health and wellbeing, and migration and displacement. IFRC promotes respect for our fundamental principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality, including in our work on values, power and inclusion. The IFRC focuses throughout on our core mandate – our raison d’être – of strategic and operational coordination, humanitarian diplomacy, National Society development, and accountability.

IFRC is led by its Secretary General and has its Headquarters in Geneva and five regional offices in Africa (Nairobi); the Americas (Panama); Asia Pacific (Kuala Lumpur); Europe (Budapest); and MENA (Beirut) as well as representation offices, service centres and delegations across the globe.

The IFRC has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment and other forms of harassment, abuse of authority, discrimination, and lack of integrity (including but not limited to financial misconduct). IFRC also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles.

The Federation in delivering its broader Humanitarian and Developmental mission hosts the Country Support Platform (CSP) of the Global Task Force for Cholera Control (GTFCC) as an operational arm of the GTFCC, supporting countries to implement National Cholera Plans aligned with the GTFCC's 'Ending Cholera: Global Roadmap to 2030'.

Job Purpose

The Senior Officer, National Cholera Plans (NCP) Financing and Strategic Engagement will lead and coordinate efforts to support countries in mobilizing resources for the implementation of their NCP. This role focuses on building relationships with financing stakeholders, supporting government capacity to access funding, and positioning cholera control within broader development and health security investments.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Resource Mobilization (60%)

• Map and monitor funding landscapes in CSP-supported countries, identifying ongoing and planned investments relevant to NCP priorities and PAMI analyses.
• Build relationships with development banks, bilateral donors, philanthropies, unconventional donors, private sector) and domestic budget stakeholders to explore financing opportunities for cholera control.
• Work with the Regional CSP Coordinators to understand national and subnational contexts, translating operational intelligence into actionable financing conversations.
• Support countries as needed in navigating development bank processes, fiscal cycles, and co-financing requirements.
• Recruit, supervise, and coordinate national consultants for country-specific resource mobilization work (donor mapping, grant applications, domestic budget analysis, or related).
• Build government counterpart capacity for resource mobilization, supporting CSP exit strategy through skills transfer and institutional strengthening.
• Ensure high-quality, timely delivery of outputs such as investment cases, financing briefs, and grant applications in close collaboration with the Regional CSP Coordinators.

Partner Engagement (30%)

• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with GTFCC partners, understanding their portfolio priorities and identifying alignment with NCP implementation needs.
• Facilitate partner coordination for resource efficiency, supporting alignment of investments with validated PAMIs and NCP priorities.
• Represent CSP at regional and global events to identify collaboration and funding opportunities.
• Contribute to CSP-wide strategic discussions on partnerships and financing in internal and external partner engagements.
• Support engagement with non-traditional partners including private sector, regional development banks, and climate financing mechanisms.

CSP Visibility and Knowledge Management (10%)

• Support the revision and harmonisation of standardized tools to strengthen investment cases for cholera control.
• Capture success stories and implementation evidence as they emerge to support financing conversations and CSP positioning.
• Contribute to development of guidance notes, investment cases and compelling narratives for cholera control financing, including harmonization and revision of tools and templates.
• Contribute to CSP operational communications, including the quarterly operational highlights.
• Support donor reporting and relationship management in coordination with the Geneva based global CSP Coordinator.
• Identify and support to mobilize new funding for the CSP and its supported countries.
• Represents the CSP at relevant meetings, events, and forums when required to do so.

Duties applicable to all staff

1. Actively work towards the achievement of IFRC’s and the GTFCC’s goals.
2. Abide by and work in accordance with the Red Cross and Red Crescent principles.
3. Perform any other work-related duties and responsibilities that may be assigned by the line manager.

Education

Required

• Master’s degree or post-graduate study in International Relations, international development, management, political science, partnership development, public policy, health policy and financing, health economics, or related areas.

Preferred

• Professional certification or other specific training in resource mobilization.
• Professional certification or other specific training in communication, advocacy or public health.

Experience

Required

• At least 7 years working experience in resource mobilization, development finance, or partnership development in international development or public health contexts.
• Demonstrated experience working with development banks (World Bank, African Development Bank, or similar) and understanding of their processes and requirements.
• Experience navigating government fiscal cycles and domestic budget processes in developing country contexts.
• Track record of successful proposal development and donor relationship management.

Preferred

• Experience in WASH, health systems, or cholera/disease control programming.
• Experience with climate financing or health security funding mechanisms.

Knowledge, Skills and Languages

Required

• Broad knowledge and track record in Resource Mobilization and experience in practically applying this knowledge into strategy, programmes and positioning.
• Strong understanding of development finance architecture and multilateral funding mechanisms.
• Results oriented and demand driven individual, entrepreneurial, ability to lead in unprecedented and/or ambiguous situations.
• Ability to translate technical health and WASH content into compelling investment narratives.
• Excellent relationship-building skills with ability to engage effectively with government counterparts, donors, and technical partners.
• Strong analytical skills for assessing funding landscapes and identifying strategic opportunities.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining close coordination with remote/distributed team members.
• Proven good judgment and ability to work with complete integrity and confidentiality.
• Cultural sensitivity with the ability to work and communicate efficiently in a multi-cultural, multi-lingual and cross-functional setting, as well asacross diverse country contexts.
• Willingness to travel extensively (~50% of time).
• Demonstrated core proficiency in (a) digital communication & collaboration, (b) basic digital content creation, (c) digital safety & security, (d) data literacy, and (e) problem solving with technology (including responsible use of AI assistants.
• Understanding of and commitment to IFRC’s mission and values.

Preferred

• Exceptional negotiation and persuasive writing skills.

Languages

Required

• Fluent spoken and written English.
• Good command of spoken and written French.

Preferred

• Good command of spoken and written Portugese.
• Good command of another IFRC official language (Spanish or Arabic)

Competencies, Values and Comments

Values: Respect for diversity; Integrity; Professionalism; Accountability.

Core competencies: Communication; Collaboration and teamwork; Judgement and decision making; National society and customer relations; Creativity and innovation; Building trust.

Application Instruction

Please submit your application in English only.