Organizational Context
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is a membership organisation, consisting of the world’s 191 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, acting through more than 160,000 local branches or offices and with 14 million community-based volunteers. They are supported by the IFRC Secretariat, which works to support, coordinate and represent the action of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies worldwide. Together, the members and their Secretariat are known as the “IFRC network”.
Each National Red Cross and Red Crescent Society is an independent national organisation dedicated to saving lives, promoting community health, safety resilience and well‑being, and building inclusive societies. As auxiliaries to the public authorities in the humanitarian field, National Societies support their authorities to reduce risks, protect human dignity, delivery assistance and improve the lives of vulnerable people, while always acting in conformity with the Fundamental Principles. Their unparalleled local presence,



combined with the IFRC Secretariat’s role in general coordination and response, brokering knowledge, strengthening capacities, mobilising resources and representation, form the world’s largest and most effective humanitarian network.
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.
In the Americas, the IFRC Secretariat supports 34 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies through the Americas Regional Office (Panama) and Country Delegations across the region. The Regional Health Department leads on health and wellbeing programming across the Americas, s

📌 Officer, Health (Colombia)
🏢 International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - IFRC
📍 Colombia