Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities
The individual will work under the overall supervision of the National Project Coordinator. The Technical Associate will report directly to the Provincial Coordinator and be responsible for supporting implementation of the project in respective provinces. The Technical Associate will work with the entire provincial team and assist the Provincial Coordinator in coordinating with the disaster risk reduction stakeholders of provinces and municipalities.
Support Provincial coordinator for effective management of project for timely delivery of quality outputs:
- Support the provincial coordinator in planning, implementation, management, and coordination of the project at provincial/ municipal level.
- Carry out field supervision and monitoring to support quality delivery of outputs and activities.
- Support in planning and day-to-day management of the project, including coordination with the local partners, based on project work plan.
- Prepare project work plan, implementation plan with schedule of activities and ensure timely delivery as per plan.
- Support to synchronize project’s field level activities under different components of the project with the actions of different actors working on urban and earthquake risk management issues.
- Document learning and disseminate information to wider DRR community at provincial/ municipal levels.
Provide technical support to the project team to achieve project outputs:
- Support to organize training, meetings/ discussion at provinces and municipalities to support implementation of DRR related activities including preparation of plans, standards, and guidelines.
- Provide technical and facilitation support, where necessary to Technical Working Groups while preparing DRRM plans.
- Ensure quality and consistency of various guidelines, frameworks and key documents produced.
- Provide technical support to Provincial and Municipal Disaster Management Committee led updating of Emergency Preparedness and Response plans, Disaster management plans, Business Continuity Plans at the provincial and municipal levels.
- Support the usage of EOCs and its institutionalization and linkage and communication among EOCs at municipalities, districts, sectoral, and provinces.
- Support the provinces and municipalities in information management and system strengthening ensuring linkage with federal system developed by NDRRMA.
- Facilitate urban and issue-based simulation exercises to test the coordination, and agility of the response system.
- Support the creation of mechanism for resource sharing to conduct training of CERT volunteer with municipalities.
- Support to strengthen provincial cluster(sector) mechanism for increased ownership by sectoral ministries, the cluster leads, and its linkage at the federal level.
- Support to create mechanism for the Inter-Provincial resource-sharing to facilitate preparedness and response.
- Facilitate advocacy for allocating resources by provincial and local governments for risk reduction and disaster preparedness to ensure sustainability of approach supported by the project and formulate necessary policies by provincial government to enhance preparedness for effective response.
- Provide support for strengthening disaster preparedness and response through policy and budgetary interventions by engaging parliamentarians.
- Provide inputs to demonstrate mechanisms for linkage between metropolitan/sub-metropolitan city and urban and rural municipalities for coordinated preparedness and response and create a platform for knowledge sharing.
Support the Monitoring, Preparation of reports and documents, Communication/ Knowledge Management and Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI):
- Contribute to timely preparation and quality control of technical and progress reports, briefs, and other required documents.
- Support in ensuring project data/information are maintained in line with project M&E framework in a disaggregated fashion.
- Support in ensuring that project approaches, monitoring system and reporting mainstreams the aspects of gender and social inclusion with adequate GESI sensitive data collection and tailored support.
- Support for documentation of project results and achievements and their dissemination in coordination with provincial coordinator.
- Work closely with information and database officer and Communication officer to collect and comply, reports, data, news, events, human stories, challenges, and lessons learnt to publish in periodic reports.
- Support in integration of GESI aspects in all stages of the project in coordination with GESI Focal Person of UNDP/SUPER project.
- Create a safe working environment by developing respectful and safe organizational culture and supporting practices.
- Collaborate with team members, programme partners, and sub-grantees to ensure safe implementation of programmes at the community level applying Do No Harm approach.
The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Job Specification
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Secondary education is required. OR
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in Engineering, Disaster Management, Planning, and any other related social science fields will be given due consideration, but it is not a requirement.
Experience:
- A minimum of 7 years (with Secondary education) or 4 years (with a bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience in Disaster preparedness or response activities.
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.
- Experience of supporting the local or provincial governments in disaster preparedness initiatives such as development of DRRM plans, conduction of simulation exercises, development of cluster specific plans, etc. is highly desirable.
- Experience of preparing policy briefs, plans, and project update reports; reviewing preparedness and response documents is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated technical experience in safer construction and disaster risk management/preparedness is highly desirable.
- Experience in coordination, field supervision and monitoring along with preparing project work plan and implementation plan is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated social experience in coordinating with different stakeholders and facilitating discussions is highly desirable.
- Female candidates and candidates from marginalized group will have a distinct advantage.
Required Languages
- Fluency in English and Nepali with written and verbal communication is required
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