Senior Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Coordinator

Save the Children

NGO / INGO / Development Projects

Senior Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Coordinator

Views: 16164|Published on: Dec 23, 2015|

NGO / INGO / Social work

Vacancy: 1

Kathmandu|

Experience: Not Required|

GRADE: 6+

LOCATION: DRR CO

TEAM/PROGRAMME: PDQ Department/ DRR

POST TYPE: National

Child Safeguarding Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people

PURPOSE:
Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfill their potential. We work together, with our partners from civil societies and government, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Under the guidance of DRR and Resilience Specialist, s/he will be responsible to developing guidelines, tools to mainstream DRR and CCA in development sectors and EQ programme. S/he will be also responsible to develop DRR/CCA concept notes and proposal to profile Save the Children’s work on DRR and Resilience, coordinate internally with DRR and Resilience and other team for the development of DRR and resilience projects and provide technical support for its implementation. S/he will work in close coordination with the Save the Children team, partners, concerned government line agencies and civil societies in such a way that it provides tangible benefits to children and targeted communities. S/he will offer technical support for capacity building to related stakeholders and involved in documentation of learning.

“Supporting Save the Children’s dual mandate of development programmes as well as being the leader in emergency preparedness and response for children”.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Capacity Building:

Supports to facilitate implementation of DRR/CBDRM projects
Supports to integrate DRR and resilience within SC sectors/projects
Supports to fundraising and capacity building for the development of quality fundraising materials and products
Builds good working relationships across other teams in country office
In consultation with HR Department and POD thematic managers take lead in planning and organizing the delivery of capacity building of SC staff and partner staff as required for DRR and CCA.
Supports DRR and Resilience team to develop DRR strategy and review the DRR and CCA thematic area, contribute to thematic strategy, and its incorporation in all themes.
Take lead in developing tools, guidelines related to DRR and CCA and maintain in depth understanding of DRR and CCA theme and interrelated sub-themes of the country office.
Consolidates multi hazard and multi-sector risk assessment tools/guidelines for SC that fits in line with the SC CSP and the Global Priorities

Technical Assistance and Quality Assurance

Supports to ensure quality of programs in the field including benefiting to the vulnerable children.
Provision of timely and quality DRR and CCA technical support is available to the programme implementation team on DRR and CCA programmes and activities.
Supports in development of resilience markers and set Minimum Standard for each theme/ key interventions
Makes regular field visits and deliver training, check the quality, identify best practices, identify issues to be addressed, and share with DRR team to give technical advice to POD team

Documentation:

Organizes field visit, gather information and prepare high quality learning documents and reports as per SC and the donor’s requirements and timely submit to related stakeholders
Encourages humanitarian actors/partners to document the innovative approaches, best practices, lesson learned, and case studies
Documents progress and learning and share them at appropriate level
Keeps DRR and Resilience Specialist abreast regularly on the progress, consult for key decisions and way forward in the area responsible for.

Fund Raising

Supports the development of DRR concept notes and development of DRR proposals
Supports the fundraising efforts of DRR and Resilience team to profile Save the Children’s work on DRR and Resilience
Supports in developing donor mapping, community needs assessment and scoping strategic partnerships in DRR and Resilience.
Provides on regular basis creative/innovative solutions to problems or tasks

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential

Master’s degree in communication, disaster risk management, planning, social science, natural resource management or other relevant field
A minimum of 5 years’ experience in DRR and Humanitarian organizations or likeminded organizations/I/NGOs,
Past experience on DRR and CCA and community based DRR
Good understanding of DRR and Humanitarian programming or relevant thematic area
Specific knowledge and skills on information management and communication
Proven experience in coordination with DDRC, DDC and other government partners and the ability to lead, motivate and develop others
Solid project delivery, implementation and monitoring skills with a proven history of delivering results
Ability to analyze information, evaluate options and to think and plan strategically
Effective interpersonal skills including leadership skills and ability to motivate those line managed by you and provide constructive feedback on performance
Fluency written and spoken English and Nepali, as well as excellent report writing skills
Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches
Ability and willingness to stay and travel to any parts of the country
Skills related to participatory methods, computer literacy and team management

Desirable

Worked within the NGO community, donor agencies and government departments in relevant role

Skills

Capacity building
Coordination
Documentation
Relationship Building
Reporting Writing

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About the organization

Save the Children

NGO / INGO / Development Projects

Airport Gate, Shambhu Marga, Sinamangal, Kathmandu

Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential. We work together, with our partners from civil societies and government, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. We reach approximately two million population and invest over 30 million US dollars annually to reach more children than ever before, through programmes in Health and Nutrition, Education, Child Rights and Governance and Child Protection, Child Poverty, HIV & AIDS, and Humanitarian.

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