Climate & Job for Disaster Risk Management Officer (contractual) in Kigali City: (Deadline:11/Mar/2021)
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 (MINEMA) 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.
Job Profile
Education
– Bachelor’s degree in Disaster Management, Emergency Response, Humanitarian Assistance or related fields. Experience
– 5 years of experience in planning and providing technical assistance to programmes and relevant initiatives in resilience building and disaster risk reduction, emergency response and post
– disaster recovery.
– Good skills in participatory mapping.
– Demonstrated experience in conducting trainings. Competencies
– Excellent problem
– solving skills; strong motivation and ability to deliver results; strong responsiveness to the needs of people crisis; teamwork and collaboration; planning and organizing; computer literacy (office, web based tools); Languages
– Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Kinyarwanda. Knowledge of French would be an advantage.
