Liaison officer

A liaison officer is a person who liaises between two or more organizations to communicate and coordinate their activities on a matter of mutual concern.

[1] For incidence or disaster management, liaison officers serve as the primary contact for agencies responding to the situation.

[5] Since one of the primary tasks of a liaison officer is often to coordinate activities between two or more organizations, people in these positions typically need to possess strong language and communication skills.

For example, George Wilcox counters, "In the 1990s my wife served twice as CLO, once in Central Asia, where she didn't speak the language and once in Brazil, where she did.

She did an excellent job in both places, mostly because of her empathy for family members and her proactive involvement in helping them to adjust successfully to life in the two countries.