Climate & Disaster Risk Management Specialist at KIGALI CITY: Deadline: May 10,22

Job Description

– Advise and support the CoK Resilience Delivery Unit in regard to conducting integrated risk assessment and enhancing City’s efforts to mainstream resilience to natural disasters and climate change.
– Work closely with the Ministry in charge of Emergency Management, Ministry of Environment including their affiliated Agencies and other City stakeholders to ensure the implementation of the CoK Disaster Contingency and Resilience Plan.
– Provide technical inputs for the design, development, and implementation of community-led initiatives to enhance resilience to disaster and climate change for vulnerable people living in disaster prone areas in Kigali City.
– Ensures the establishment of a DRM knowledge culture with effective advocacy tools based on disaster risk evidences.
– Support enhanced collaboration and sharing of ideas and approaches in the identification, communication and application of natural hazard risk information to increase resilience.
– Participate in field missions, when required, including during and in post-disaster situations and provide technical support for Post-Disaster Needs Assessments (PDNA) and the development of Recovery Frameworks (RF) as it relates to Kigali urban risk reduction and recovery.
– Perform any other duties related to risk reduction and management as requested by the supervisor.