Background
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Duties and Responsibilities
Profile: Disaster Risk Management
Disaster Risk Management
Including mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into development processes, disaster recovery, local level risk management and disaster/risk management inventories;
Disaster Risk Management and Governance
Including institutional and legislative systems, capacity assessments, strengthening Governance and restoring the Post-Disaster Foundations for Development;
Disaster Risk Management and Gender
Including mainstreaming gender perspectives into disaster risk reduction, DRM and Gender programming and gender sensitive DRM assessments;
Capacity Development and Disaster Risk Management
Including assessment of the existing capacities for disaster risk reduction, design and development of specific DRM capacity development initiatives and identification of DRR capacities and development needs for specific vulnerable groups;
Climate Risk Management
Including assessment of climate risk profile at national or sub-national levels, development of tools, guidelines and methodology for conducting climate risk assessments, analysis of existing instruments viz. institutional, legislative, policy and developmental frameworks, capacity assessments and design and formulation of CRM interventions;
Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA)
Including PDNA Coordinator, Information Management, Sectoral experts and Report writers;
Competencies
- Demonstrating / Safeguarding Ethics and Integrity;
- Demonstrates and promotes the highest standard of integrity, impartiality, fairness and incorruptibility in all matters affecting his/her work and status.
- Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment understands the structure and hierarchy of UN/UNDP, process flows throughout the organization, products and services, their measures of effectiveness, and perceptions of clients;
- Excellent knowledge of development issues and internationally-agreed development goals;
- Knowledge of UNDP's approach to ICT for development and e-governance;
- Good knowledge of the socio-economic and political situation of the countries in the different regions.
- Self-development, initiative-taking;
- Takes appropriate risk in developing new or adapting existing methods and approaches to more effectively perform tasks or to solve problems in new and unique ways.
- Acting as a team player and facilitating team work;
- Works collaboratively with colleagues inside UN/UNDP as well as its partners and other stakeholders to pursue common goals.
- Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively;
- Delivers verbal/written information in a timely, clear, organized and easily understood manner;
- Excellent oral and written skills to develop knowledge products in relevant areas.
- Creating synergies through self-control tolerates conditions of stress, uncertainty or ambiguity and continues to maintain a positive outlook and to work productively.
- Managing conflict;
- Remains calm, composed and patient, regardless of his/her own state of mind in the face of conflict.
- Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others;
- Demonstrates commitment to ongoing professional development and keeps abreast of new developments in his/her professional field.
- Informed and transparent decision making;
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for the quality of the outcome of his/her decisions.
Required Skills and Experience
- Advanced university degree (Master, PhD) relevant to the thematic area.
- At least 7 years of proven working experience in disaster risk management including field experience in designing, implementing and evaluating DRM programmes at national level; experience in developing/application of risk information tools at different levels;
- Extensive technical knowledge relevant to the thematic area;
- Region specific experience;
- Theoretical and practical experience in drafting, implementing, monitoring and evaluating public policies, strategies or concepts relevant to the selected thematic area;
- Proven and recent experience with technical assistance for project development, implementation, management and/or evaluation;
- Excellent drafting and formulation skills; proven record of drafting official reports or papers/studies in the selected area;
- Experience working as a public official in the selected area or working/collaborating with the government is a plus;
- UN experience an asset;
- Experience with training and facilitation is an asset.
- Fluency in spoken and written English is a must, knowledge of another UN Language a plus. We are specifically looking for candidates with excellent French and Arabic language skills (fluent written and spoken).
- A current completed P11 form in English - a blank form can be downloaded from http://europeandcis.undp.org/files/hrforms/P11_modified_for_SCs_and_ICs.doc
- P11 form should, among other things, include names and contacts of at least three references and clearly indicate names of former and current supervisors (if applicable); in case of freelance consultants – list of partner institutions and contact details of projects supervisors. A file in .doc, .docx or .pdf format, containing the P11 form should be signed, scanned and uploaded into the system upon completion of the online application;
- Links to/examples of work, analytical reports, publications, online presence (e.g. blogs) in the subject matter that resulted from the consultant’s work should be included in the P11.
- Incomplete applications will not be considered. Please make sure you have provided all requested material.
Qualified women and members of minorities are encouraged to apply.