United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Expert Jobs in Kenya

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Expert Jobs in Kenya; This consultancy will help align Burundi’s disaster risk reduction (DRR) activities with the Sendai Framework by improving how risk knowledge is applied in early warning systems and decision-making, ensuring that measurable progresses within the seven targets are captured and reported accordingly.


Duties and Responsibilities: The National consultant will be based in Bujumbura, Burundi, working full time under UNDRR- ROA Programme Management Officer, and with close collaboration with the UN Country Team and the Director General of the Civil Protection in Burundi. The consultant will be responsible for the following: 1. Early Warnings for All (EW4All)

a) Provide expert guidance on stakeholder engagement on the implementation of the roadmap in Burundi, with a focus on promoting risk information management.

b) Liaise with the EWS experts to improve the coordination mechanism for data exchange at national and sub-national levels.

c) Coordinate with and support partners for the integration of the Burundi Situation room into the AMHEWAS and its extension in the IGAD/ICPAC and ECCAS Situation Room.

d) Advance early action within both national and sub-national levels, ensure that EWS reach the last miles

e) Support EW4All risk governance-related activities and any further actions towards furthering the implementation of Pillar 1 and the implementation and monitoring of the EW4All initiative in the country.

f) Raise awareness and promote advocacy for the EW4All initiative, including sharing information products, convening meetings, making presentations, media outreach and communications, etc.

g) Oversee reporting on the implementation of the EW4All initiatives in the country.

h) Assists in the organization of meetings and workshops.


i) Provides technical input and facilitates training and capacity-building workshops for local stakeholders.

j) Guide the integration of risk information into Burundi’s early warning systems in line with the EW4All initiative.


2. The AMHEWAS and the operationalisation of the situation room for Burundi

a) Liaise with the Director General of the Civil Protection, the National Platform for DRR, and all relevant stakeholders on all activities related to the design and realization of the situation room.

b) Support efforts towards Ccoordination of technical partners and organizations to ensure gradual addition of information products related to new hazards and to improve current modelling.

c) Coordinate agreement of roles and responsibilities reflecting these through the development of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the situation room.

d) Support all efforts towards the coordination of the operations of the situation room. e) Support the preparation of information products based on information collected through the coordination mechanism established.

f) Recommend strategies for integrating exposure and vulnerability data into the products generated by the situation room.


3. Gender-responsive and disability-inclusive early warning


a) Conduct a comprehensive stocktake of gender-disaggregated DRR data, methodologies, tools, policies, and legislative frameworks in Burundi.

b) Develop a mapping report outlining gaps, challenges, case studies and opportunities for gender mainstreaming in DRR.

c) Engage with key stakeholders, including government agencies, UN and civil society organizations, to validate findings.

d) Collate best practices and findings for the purpose of uploading onto the Women's Resilience to Disasters Policy Tracker for knowledge sharing.

e) Organize a workshop on integrating risk information into legislation and budget planning. f) Produce a workshop report with key recommendations and next steps.

g) Work with partners to review and update National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and DRR strategies for gender integration, provide technical guidance on comprehensive risk management for resilience, and develop gender mainstreaming recommendations.

h) Integrate the results of the EW4ALL Inclusion Checklist to develop an implementation plan and recommendations for enhancing gender mainstreaming and disability inclusion in EWS frameworks

i) Assess the existing data and monitoring mechanisms of the EW4ALL initiative for gender and disability inclusion gaps.


4. Sendai Framework Monitoring (SFM):

a) Support the improvement of the disaster data management system in the country, specifically in ensuring proper disaggregation in data collection and facilitating the coordination between national institutions involved in collecting disaster data.

b) Provide technical support for uploading disaster data into the Sendai Framework Monitoring platform to track progress in disaster risk reduction before or at the annual milestones (March, October).

c) Assist the national institutions in their efforts to use disaster data to inform disaster risk reduction policies and actions. d) Engage and coordinate with key stakeholders, including national authorities, local governments, and partners, to ensure alignment of activities with existing DRR initiatives and national priorities and the reporting of progress through the SFM platform.


Qualifications/special skills

Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Disaster Risk Management, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Geography, Hydrology or other relevant fields is required.

A first-level university degree in any of these fields in combination with two additional years of qualifying work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Five (5) years of relevant experience at the national or international level in implementing Disaster Risk Reduction Programmes or other related projects/programmes is required. Experience in Early Warning Systems (EWS) management, Geographical Information systems is desirable.

Experience in data analysis including data cleansing, visualisation and reporting is required. Experience in statistical applications (Stata, R, SPSS, Stata, Sphinx, SAS,) is desirable.

Experience in conducting gender analysis is desirable. Proven experience working closely with Government institutions or coordinating government led projects in Burundi is desirable

Languages

English & French are the working languages in the United Nations. For this post, Fluency in French is required.


How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Expert Jobs in Kenya

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