Job Position : Fellows for Disaster Risk Reduction – Young Leaders Fellowship
No. of vacancy : 7 positions available

Project Overview   

Disaster Risk Reduction – Young Leaders Fellowship (DRR-YLF) is a unique five-month experiential fellowship program. Based on the first-hand experience, it provides DRR enthusiasts with an opportunity to gain in-depth experience in DRRM and related disciples. It further creates the next generation of DRR Young Professionals to enhance disaster resilience communities.

DRR-YLF is an initiative of Youth Innovation Lab (YI-Lab) and it aims to build technical capacities of local government to support localization of Disaster Information Management System (DIMS) locally known as Building Information Platform Against Disaster (BIPAD). BIPAD portal brings all credible digital and spatial data available within government bodies, non-government organizations, academic and research institutions into a single platform. The portal allows local governments to host BIPAD independently, fostering an effective data partnership mechanism to enhance their preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery activities. For more on BIPAD, visit https://bipadportal.gov.np/. 

Given the reality that most of the municipalities lack capacities to collect, manage and use DRR information for informed decision making, the fellowship program aims to address this issue by mobilizing technically trained youths with sound knowledge on BIPAD portal in the local governments. The fellows act as a connecting bridge to transfer the technical capacity of using BIPAD portal to the local governments. Throughout the fellowship program, fellows will also have exciting opportunities to participate in learning and training events being organized by leading organizations in the field of DRRM including NDRRMA and project municipalities.

For more information, please visit -  https://fellowship.youthinnovationlab.org.

Fellowship Duration : Five months   

Project Locations:   YI-Lab is accepting applications for the DRR-YLF 2021 at 7 municipalities: Saptakoshi Municipality, Kanchanrup Municipality, Hanumanagar Kankalini Municipality, and Tilathi Koiladi Rural Municipality of Saptari District and Siraha Municipality, Kalyanpur Municipality, and Karjanha Municipality of Siraha District.

Eligibility and Selection Criteria   

DRR – Young Leaders Fellows must:   

• Be local from the project municipalities or willing to relocate to the municipality.  
• Be of 30 years old or younger at the nomination.   
• Have a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Disaster, Risk Reduction, Development Studies, Natural Resources, Crisis Management, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology and related field.   
• Have an interest in learning technology and open data.  
• Have knowledge of or interest in disaster/DRRM and related discipline.  
• Be curious to work with municipality and Information Technology (IT) officers at the local level.   
• Have strong knowledge in technology that includes mobile app, web app, MS office package.  
• Have excellent communication skills in Nepali and English. Knowledge of the local language would be preferred. 
• Have a personal computer and a smart phone.
• Have outstanding personal character and integrity.
• Have teamwork and collaborative skills. 

Key Responsibilities of the Fellows   

Fellows will be responsible for:  

• Supporting their assigned municipality to administer and operationalize municipal level BIPAD portal.  
• Collaborating with the IT officer and municipal DRR focal personnel for day-to-day capacity transfer.  
• Working closely with the municipal personnel to compile DRR related datasets and standardize and integrate them into BIPAD.   
• Working with municipal personnel to map and validate critical infrastructure datasets like education, health, finance, governance, tourism, industry, and communication.   
• Reporting and documenting the progress/challenges and share the case studies.    

Benefits for the Fellows  

• Five-day residential training in Kathmandu on DIMS and DRRM.  
• Stipend NRP 30,000 per month during the course of fellowship.   
• Opportunity to work closely with IT professionals, Mayor, and Government officials at working station.   
• Opportunity to participate in training/workshops/seminars organized by NDRRMA, and respective municipality.  
• Graduation Certificate of the fellowship.
• Potential job placement within YI-Lab, partners, and related organizations.