Disaster Management Expert, Disaster Risk Management Programme (Project Staff)

Job Description

Title: Disaster Management Expert, Disaster Risk Management Programme (Project Staff)

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 8 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Master of Social Science (MSS)

• Masters in Disaster Management/Environment Science or Management/ Social Science/ Development Studies or any relevant discipline.

• At least 8 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Minimum 08 years working experience on DRR and capacity building programmes at national and international NGOs or relevant organizations. Experience in the establishment and support of community led projects particularly on DRR and resilience building

• Additional Job Requirements:

• Sound Knowledge on national and international policies and practices of DRR.

• Excellent interpersonal communication and facilitation skills.

• Willingness to work in harsh environment.

BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential. Working at BRAC is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world; we are building it. Join us to find the way.

Position: Disaster Management Expert, Disaster Risk Management Programme (Project Staff)

Job Purpose:

The Disaster Management Expert is responsible for planning, designing, and implementing interventions on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Capacity Building for achieving strategic goal and objectives of the programme. The role provides technical leadership in the development of DRR and resilience building framework, mainstream DRR in BRAC development programmes for resilience building, and technical assistance to strengthen organizational capacity and readiness, and reinforce the capacity of local government, local NGOs, and the communities.

Job Description:

• Contribute to the development and standardization of tools, systems, and templates for the humanitarian capacity building activities to continue to increase the quality of the programmes delivered and to monitor their impact.

• Support in designing, planning, budgeting, and implementing project activities; follow – up and monitoring the progress; reporting and documentations.

• Ensure that the project is implemented timely, effectively, and to ensure sustainability of the project interventions beyond project end.

• Develop a plan for capacity building initiatives of DRMP staff in DRR and resilience building issues and ensure the execution of the plan.

• Develop training curriculums, modules, and handbooks for capacity building of different target groups for both BRAC and external stakeholders, and deliver/facilitate training sessions as needed.

• Maintain liaison and strengthen linkage and communication with GO, NGO, INGO, UN, university, research agencies and other relevant stakeholders for the successful implementation of the programme.

• Build knowledge of organization level, civil society, communities, and volunteers, as well as the private sector, through sharing experiences, lessons learned, good practices and training and education on DRR, including the use of existing training and education mechanisms and peer learning.

• Participate in national level coalitions/clusters on DRR & Resilience, emergency response and recovery issues, establish partnerships with other NGOs with proven expertise in the sector and identify areas of possible linkages.

• Guide to ensuring projects adhere to technical norms and standards in resilience and DRR activities.

• Guide the team to ensure that DRR and resilience are incorporated in the development of BRAC strategic and programmatic documents

• Represent BRAC in different national, regional, and international forum.

• Collaborate with internal programme development team and Global Resource Mobilisation and Partnership (GRP) team of BRAC to explore new funding on training, innovative interventions on DRR and resilience building.

• Contribute to develop project concept notes and proposals for the programme to explore new funding opportunities.

• Provide technical guidance to training team to manage training curriculum and courses as per plan to develop DRR.

• Supervise and ensure project lesson learnt documentation and project data-based is updated and ensuring timely completion and reporting of the activities.

• Contribute to develop learning documents, case studies and comparative study documents for knowledge management and publication.

• Prepare quantitative and qualitative reports capturing the progress against agreed work plans and learning.

SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.

• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.

• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

• Festival Bonus and others as per policy