The Road Policing Trainer will provide expert support to GRSP’s Road Policing Capacity Building Programme.  This support will primarily include designing and delivering training workshops, on-the-ground coaching and mentoring of enforcement officers, and other good practice capacity building activities.  Road policing activities will be focussed on good practice enforcement of policies that relate to drink driving, helmet wearing, restraint use, and speed management. In addition, topics such as management skills in a policing context may also be part of the capacity building activities undertaken.

GRSP is seeking Road Policing Trainers who have proven experience in leading organisational delivery of road policing services at either a national, state or municipal (or equivalent) level.  The Road Policing Trainer would have demonstrated experience in leading a prevention-based delivery model that is focused on road trauma reduction, rather than a reactive emergency response-based approach.  Successful candidates should have experience in applying:

• general and specific deterrence road policing strategies;
• research-driven road policing practices;
• systems to monitor and measure performance and impacts upon road trauma;
• coordination of road policing with public education campaigns; and,
• an ability to successfully establish and build partnerships with high level road police and other relevant stakeholders
• management principles and practices in a policing context

Duties and Responsibilities

The Road Policing Trainer will work directly with, and at the direction of the GRSP CEO, the GRSP Senior Manager, the GRSP Road Policing Capacity Building Programme Manager(s) and the GRSP Senior Officers (road policing).  Road Policing Trainers are expected to ensure that all work is delivered according to globally recognized good practice in road policing and with local road policing context and environment taken into account.

The key responsibilities of the Road Policing Trainer include:

 Becoming familiar with the social, political, legal and economic environments of specific target communities in order to inform a locally relevant capacity building programme;

Prparing and delivering good practice workshops in road safety policy enforcement;

Coaching and mentoring of road police through on-site observation and follow-up discussions;

Providing written feedback, suggestions, and guidance to road policing agencies;

Liaising with government and non-government organizations as required to engage in road policing activities;

Remaining up-to-date on global social, political, legal, and economic environments that will impact road policing;

Working collaboratively with GRSP partners and key stakeholders to share information and ensure maximum programme impact.

These are generic duties and responsibilities for Road Policing Trainer consultants. Upon commission of consultant services, specific Terms of Reference (TOR) will be provided. TORs will include specific project objectives, desired outcomes, consultancy outputs and method of delivery.

Education

Required

Advanced training in a key areas related to road policing excellence.

Preferred

Bachelor’s degree in political science, public health, social sciences or a related field.

Experience

Required

A minimum of eight years working experience in road policing.

Experience, as a road police officer:

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;

Proven experience in leading organisational delivery of road policing services at either a national, state or municipal (or equivalent) level.

Expert familiarity with the political system in-country and understanding of the complex formal and informal relationships that go into policymaking and enforcement of those policies.

High degree of demonstrated competence working collaboratively in networks or coalitions to create shared vision and set complementary work objectives to reduce death and serious injury on the roads.

Experience developing and delivering international best practices capacity building workshops in road policing.

Ability to travel and work internationally.

Knowledge, Skills and Languages

Required

• Fluent spoken and written English.
• Keen understanding of in-country policy making bodies and processes, politics of policing and penalties, etc.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong strategic and analytical thinking skills.
• Strong organizational skills.

Preferred

• Good command of another IFRC official language (French, Spanish or Arabic).
• Good command in Portuguese.