Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Manager

Job Description

Title: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Manager

Company Name: Relief International

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's degree in international development, disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, humanitarian assistance, organization development or related field required. Master's degree preferred.

Experience Requirements:
∎ 7 to 10 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Duty Station: Cox`s Bazaar, Bangladesh
∎ Report To: Program Director
∎ Expected Start Date: At Earliest
∎ Contract length: One Year (With possibility of Extension subject to funding, program needs and performance of incumbent)
∎ Position Summary: The DRR Manager will provide technical leadership to all Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) components of an upcoming Multipurpose Disaster Shelter Support Project in Bangladesh, including the design and quality assurance of DRR interventions. The position will bring expertise in both community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR), school disaster risk reduction and overall disaster preparedness. This is a full-time Bangladeshi National position for a 5 year period.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Specific responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
∎ Leadership on community based and school based DRR capacity to reduce the risks and preparedness to respond to natural and human-induced disasters.
∎ Work closely with partners at the community-level and within a project team to proactively strengthen community-based awareness and early warning initiatives.
∎ Ensure timely and effective implementation of project activities
∎ Conduct needs/risk/vulnerability assessments of targeted communities and structures and facilitate the design of tailored DRR interventions.
∎ Ensure engagement and involvement of affected population particularly vulnerable groups such as women, persons with disability, youth, religious and ethnic groups, taking into consideration protection and environmental aspects.
∎ Technical assistance, training and mentoring to staff RI DRR staff and program partners in order to improve technical quality of project implementation
∎ Any other relevant assignment by line manager.
∎ Specific Project Management Tasks:
∎ Lead or assist and advise staff and RI partners on sector data collection and analysis.
∎ Provide technical assistance and lead DRR, specific strategies/methodologies and budget preparations.
∎ Lead implementation of DRR project interventions to achieve project outputs and objectives, including regular monitoring
∎ Provide training to project staff to improve their awareness of and skills with respect to implementation of activities
∎ Lead, advice and participate in periodic and end of project learning reviews and evaluations, and the analysis of results.

Additional Requirements:
∎ 7-10 years of previous experience managing and/or providing technical assistance to DRR and Climate Change programs required. Experience in the education sector an advantage.
∎ Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.
∎ Good communication skills, written, and spoken, in Bengali and English.
∎ A team builder with excellent people skills; culturally sensitive and has the ability and interest to identify and work with a multicultural team.

Application Deadline: May 14, 2020

Company Information:
∎ Relief International
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered in USA, is a leading international non government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.

Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact.

Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.

Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org

Category: NGO/Development