Camp Coordination & Camp Management (CCCM)

For Mid (P3) and Senior (P4) Level Positions

The Camp Coordination and Camp Management Officer ensures a multi-sectoral response to assist and protect displaced populations in communal settings (collective centres, camps, spontaneous sites, etc.) The CCCM Officer does not advocate for the creation of camps. Camps and communal settlements are temporary solutions established only as a last resort whilst all efforts are made to find more durable solutions. For overall accountability and predictability of a humanitarian response within communal displacement situations, and for the response to be in line with the collaborative effort, the cluster must work together to respond in a predictable and timely manner. As the focal point for the cluster, the Cluster coordinator is accountable for the CCCM response to the humanitarian crisis. The cluster coordinator must ensure the inclusion of key humanitarian partners within the sector, respecting their mandates and programme priorities. Working together, the cluster members will identify the overall requirements in responding to camp and communal displacement situations and augment their capacity to meet this threshold. The cluster will identify (and establish when necessary) standards and guidelines that facilitate interoperability to ensure that activities are carried out quickly and effectively.

Typical functions may include:

Planning and Strategy Development

• Coordinate / develop / update agreed response strategies and action plans for the cluster and ensure that these are adequately reflected in overall country strategies
• Involve all relevant partners in site needs assessment and analysis
• Identify gaps and duplications – assess, verify, and map emerging assistance needs and protection issues
• Map and track “who is doing what, where, when”
• Develop exit/transition strategy for communal settings
• Support selection, planning and development of communal settings in collaboration with site planners and with national actors
• Ensure the site design supports protection and assistance of men, women, boys and girls
• Support registration of displaced populations in communal settings, paying particular attention to gender, age and diversity dimensions; and update the population registry
• Ensure strategies are developed to support and strengthen residents’ livelihood initiatives
• Conduct contingency planning based and most likely scenarios of population movements
• Enact environment protection and mitigation of negative impacts on ecological habitats
• Where possible, support the national government/authorities in implementing their activities and upholding them to their obligations that meet the identified priority needs
• Ensure integration of agreed priority cross-cutting issues in needs assessment, analysis, planning, monitoring and response.
• Ensure gender sensitive programming.
• Ensure the CCCM Cluster maps out the operational requirements for a CCCM response; and
• Identify and establish standards and guidelines that facilitate interoperability.

Application of standards

• Adapt relevant policies and guidelines and technical standards to context of crisis
• Ensure that cluster members are aware of policy guidelines and technical standards
• Ensure that responses are in line with existing policy guidance and technical standards and relevant government, human rights, and legal obligations

Monitoring and reporting

• Ensure adequate monitoring mechanisms are in place to review impact of the cluster and progress against implementation plans
• Ensure adequate reporting and effective information sharing amongst all partners including camp managers, sector leads and OCHA, disaggregating data by age & gender

National/local authorities, State institutions, local civil society and other relevant actors

• Ensure that CCCM responses build on local capacities, context specific strengths and national response capabilities
• Ensure appropriate links with national and local authorities, State institutions, local civil society and other relevant actors and ensure coordination and information exchange
• Promote the capacity building of relevant authorities where deemed necessary.

Protection Capacity

• Organize affected population’s participation in communal setting governance and community mobilization, with particular emphasis on women’s decision-making role and on persons with specific needs (such as the elderly and disabled)
• Ensure transparent governance of communal settings and effective access to justice for residents that conforms to relevant human rights standards.

Advocacy & Resource Mobilization

• With assistance from the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC), advocate for the mobilization of resources
• In close coordination with the sector lead agency at the global level, assist the HC in the establishment of a resource mobilization strategy vis-à-vis donors present in the country
• Promote strategies to build up and strengthen confidence within communal settings and between displaced populations, surrounding and host communities
• Identify core advocacy concerns at the national level and contribute key messages to broader, multi-sectoral advocacy initiatives
• Advocate with authorities to ensure that humanitarian agencies/organisations providing assistance and protection to residents in communal settings have the access to work there
• Represent the interests of the cluster in discussions with the Humanitarian Coordinator on prioritization, resource mobilization and advocacy
• Advocate for donors to fund cluster member priority activities in the sector concerned, and encourage cluster members to mobilize resources through their usual channels

Preparedness and Training Capacity

• Promote and support relevant CCCM training for NGOs, UN agencies, local government officials and members of displaced and host communities
• Support efforts to strengthen the capacity of the national authorities and civil society;

Phase-out and Rehabilitation Capacity

• Consolidate and down-size communal settings as needed
• Implement site closure strategies and ensure rehabilitation of areas formerly occupied by camps or collective centres.
• Ensure integration of CCCM elements into transition and early recovery Frameworks

Co-ordination

• Ensure appropriate coordination with all humanitarian partners as well as with national authorities and local structures.
• Ensure the establishment/maintenance of appropriate sectoral coordination mechanisms, including working groups at the national and, if necessary, local level
• Define the nature and extent of overlap and coordination between CCCM and other clusters particularly Shelter, Protection and WASH.
  Minimum qualifications and professional experience required:

For positions at the P3 level

Education: Advanced degree in a field of study that offers a comprehensive view of community organization, planning and design (e.g. architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning or a related field) and/or social sciences (e.g. humanitarian affairs, development studies, political science, or a related field), or an equivalent combination of camp management and humanitarian experience in a related area. 

Job experience: Minimum of 6 years of relevant (international) job experience with Advanced University/Master’s Degree (8 years with University/Bachelor’s Degree Languages: Excellent knowledge of English.

For positions at the P4 level
Education: Advanced degree in a field of study that offers a comprehensive view of community organization, planning and design (e.g. architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning or a related field) and/or social sciences (e.g. humanitarian affairs, development studies, political science, or a related field), or the equivalent combination of camp management and humanitarian experience in a related area.
Job experience: Minimum of 10 years of relevant (international) job experience with Advanced University/Master’s Degree (12 years with University/Bachelor’s Degree).

Languages: Excellent knowledge of English.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please apply here: http://www.unhcr.org/pages/53188bd46.html