Senior Officer, Road Policing

Organizational Context

The IFRC has five regional offices in Africa, Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and the Americas.  The IFRC also has country cluster delegation and country delegations throughout the world. Together, the Geneva Headquarters and the field structure (regional, cluster and country) comprise the IFRC Secretariat.

The Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) (www.grsproadsafety.org) is a hosted programme of the IFRC and is a voluntary association of governments, businesses, and civil society organisations. Both the IFRC and GRSP are headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.  The GRSP has full time staff based in Geneva, Kuala Lumpur and Budapest and a cadre of globally based consultants.  The aim of the GRSP’s work is to reduce death and serious injuries as a result of road crashes with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.  

According to the World Health Organization, road traffic injuries claim more than 1.35 million lives each year and result in approximately 50 million injuries.  Low and middle-income countries are disproportionately negatively affected.  Globally, road traffic deaths are the leading cause of death among young people aged 5 to 29 years and can cost governments between 3 and 5% of GDP.  Road traffic injuries and deaths represent a manmade humanitarian crisis and GRSP/IFRC are committed to evidence-based interventions to address this global pandemic.  GRSP’s work includes: 

• Carrying out a variety of member and non-member funded road safety projects and research throughout the world but focused primarily in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
• Managing a Road Safety Grants Programme that supports civil society and Red Cross/Red Crescent National Societies to strengthen legislation and policies that impact on road safety.
• Undertaking projects in low- and middle- income countries to reduce road crash deaths and serious injuries.
• Running road policing capacity building and training programmes in multiple cities and countries.
• In conjunction with Johns Hopkins University International Injury Research Unit, running Global Road Safety and Road Policing Leadership programmes.

GRSP’s work is funded by members, donors, and development banks with one big philanthropy contributing to global programme, namely;

• Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) – funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

GRSP’s work specifically contributes to meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 3.6 – “By 2030, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes” and 11.2 – “By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons.” GRSP also contributes to meeting the broader SDG sustainability agenda.

Job Purpose

The primary role of the Road Policing Senior Officer is to provide technical advice and guidance to support implementation of the Road Policing Capacity Building programme by providing road policing expertise,guidance and support to relevant police and traffic enforcement agencies in the BIGRS focused cities mostly in Latin America. The appointee will be expected to continuously review and provide direction to optimise current road policing and traffic enforcement practice in each of the BIGRS cities and to design and deliver relevant training workshops, provide on-the-ground coaching and mentoring, and other good practice capacity building activities.

This position will also provide expertise for road policing activities which focus on good practice enforcement of legislation that relates to drink driving, speeding, use of seat belts, child restraints and motorcycle helmets.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

The appointee is expected to ensure that all work products (training delivery, technical documents, etc.) reflect globally recognised good practice in road policing and traffic enforcement and with local context, resourcing, and the political and social environment taken into account.

The key responsibilities of the Road Policing Senior Officer will include:

• Monitoring and regularly sharing information about the social, political, legal, and economic environments of the selected countries and/or cities, as they relate to road policing and traffic enforcement, in order to inform the provision of technical assistance within a locally relevant capacity building programme and good teamwork with other GRSP Senior Officers.
• Preparing and delivering good practice workshops to all levels of police and traffic enforcement agents on a variety of road policing topics.
• Coaching and mentoring of police and traffic enforcement agents through on-site observation and follow-up discussions.
• Providing written feedback, suggestions, and guidance to road policing and traffic enforcement agencies.
• Conducting on-going assessments of road policing and traffic enforcement agencies in order to inform direction and focus of the capacity building programme and of the GRSP team.
• Liaising with all levels of government and non-government organisations as required to engage in road policing and traffic enforcement activities.
• Representing GRSP at relevant road safety-related meetings and events.
• Working collaboratively with GRSP partners and key stakeholders to share information and ensure maximum programme impact.
• Coordinating the work of field-based staff and consultants to achieve country/city-based programme objectives.
• Cooperating with GRSP/IFRC service providers and consultants in the logistics of training, workshops, translation, travel, equipment procurement etc.
• Completing regular monthly, quarterly and annual reporting of country- and city-based activities.

Education

University degree in a relevant area to road safety management or road policing  (Preferred)

Relevant professional or technical training (or equivalent experience) in an area
related to capacity building, training, road policing or road safety management (Required)

Experience

8+ years of work experience in the area of operational road policing (Required)

Experience in developing or supporting the development and implementation of
training plans (Required)

Experience, as a road police officer (Required):

• in applying practical road policing tactics and interventions, including relevant experience in the use of contemporary road safety enforcement technology
• in applying general and specific deterrence principles to road policing strategies;
• in applying research-driven and evidence-based road policing practices;
• in applying systems to measure and monitor performance including the impacts of enforcement upon the rate of road trauma and traffic offending behaviours;
• in coordinating road policing activities with public education campaigns; and supporting strategies for working partnerships with high-level road police and other relevant stakeholders.

Experience in developing relevant documents that ensure professional and
effective delivery of road policing activities (Required)

Experience in working with governments at the national, sub-national or city/regional level (Required)

Experience of working for the Red Cross/Red Crescent or other humanitarian
organisation (Preferred)

Experience in working with media to strengthen support for road policing (Required)

Knowledge, Skills and Languages

Strong communication skills including writing reports for different audiences (Required)

Ability to assess current enforcement strategies and plans and to strengthen when necessary (Required)

Knowledge of political processes and where, in the process of review or updating, efforts should be made to strengthen enforceable legislation that protects road users (Required)

Strong working knowledge of how to collect and analyse data for road policing enforcement purposes. (Required)

Fluently spoken and written English (Required) 

Good command of another IFRC official language (French, Spanish or Arabic) (Preferred)

Good command in Portuguese (Preferred)

Competencies, Values and Comments

Actively work towards the achievement of the Federation Secretariat’s goals

 
Abide by and work in accordance with the Red Cross and Red Crescent principles

Perform any other work-related duties and responsibilities that may be assigned by the GRSP CEO or line manager

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

CORE COMPETENCIES: Communication; Collaboration and Teamwork; Judgement and Decision Making; National Societies and Customer Relations; Creativity and Innovation; Building Trust.

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES: Building Alliances.