Disaster Risk Reduction Officer - UNICEF (Apply by: February 23, 2016)

JOB DESCRIPTION
Disaster Risk Reduction Officer, Hyderabad, Telangana

DISASTER RISK REDUCTION OFFICER, NOB, HYDERABAD – TEMPORARY APPOINTMENT
Temporary Appointment – 364 Days 
Closing date: 23rd February 2016

If you are a passionate and committed professional and want to make a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you.

UNICEF, the world’s leading children’s rights organization working for the rights of children, seeks a temporary appointment for the post of Disaster Risk Reduction Officer.

PURPOSE OF THE POST:

As part of UNICEF Hyderabad Field Office’s work plan to provide technical support in strengthening the disaster management capacities among Government and civil society partners to better understand risks and act upon them for practical risk reduction, preparedness and response and improved risk governance systems with a particular focus on the needs of children. Activities will include support to (i) improve supply chain management, (ii) vulnerability mapping, (iii) resilience building, (iv) climate change adaptation (CCA) and (v) overall provisions for child centered disaster management. The temporary position will also provide technical support to strengthen the capacity of NGOs/CBOs members of the Inter-Agency Group and to leverage resources for DRR and climate change adaptation from various sources including the private sector through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes.

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Background

One of the outcomes of the recently approved GOI-UNDP Country Programme Action Plan (2013-2017) is on Sustainable Development. The main objective is “Government, industry and other relevant stakeholders actively promote environmental sustainability and enhanced resilience of communities in the face of challenges of climate change, disaster risk and natural resource depletion”. The project on “Strengthening Institutional and Community Resilience to Disasters and Climate Change” has been formulated under this framework. This project aims to strengthen capacities of government, communities and institutions for disaster risk reduction including risks being enhanced due to climate change, and develop preparedness for recovery. The project with a total resource allocation of US$ 6.15 million will focus on ten multi-hazard prone states, 25 districts, 10 cities and 10,000 villages. The main components are: (1) Mainstreaming DRR and CCA in Development Planning; (2) Urban Risk Reduction; (3) Technical Assistance and Capacity Building;