Background
- The District Disaster Management Officer will be based at District Collectorate office in Jharkhand and under the overall supervision of the District Collector; he/she will assist the district administration in day to day coordination required for smooth implementation of various DRR activities in the district.
Duties and Responsibilities
The District Disaster Management Officer will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Act as the disaster management focal point in the district by assisting the district administration in day-to-day coordination required for smooth implementation of various DRR activities in the district;
- Ensure consultation with various stakeholders on variety of disaster management activities;
- Support in managing budget, work planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of DRR activities. Help in drafting ;technical notes, letters, reports and other materials required by the district administration.
Competencies
Corporate Competencies:- Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
- Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
- Treats all people fairly without favoritism.
Functional Competencies:
Knowledge Management and Learning
- Promotes a knowledge sharing and learning culture in the State;
- Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development in the subject area of the project, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills.
- Ability to apply conceptual models in support of implementation of the programme;
- Good knowledge of the results based management of the projects;
- Strong IT skills;
- Ability to lead implementation of initiatives.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Essential: University Degree in social sciences, geography, environment, economics, management or relevant disciplines.
- Desirable: Post Graduate degree/ diploma in social sciences, geography, environment, economics, management or relevant disciplines.
Experience:
- Overall 5 years of experience with minimum 2 years of relevant experience, with regard to the implementation and management of projects;
- Experience of working in the field of Disaster Management is required.
Language:
- Fluency in English.
- Working knowledge of Hindi and/or any other Indian language is desirable.
- Travel to the programme states, districts and cities would be required.