Disaster Risk Reduction Officer

Volunteering Human Resources Crisis & Emergency Response Environment

Contract

This is a UNV National Specialist contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV National Specialist contracts.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is increasingly integrating climate change, disaster risk reduction (DRR), and environmental sustainability across the organization. These issues affect all areas of UNICEF’s work—from programming and internal governance to risk management and policy advocacy. The Mozambique Country Office (MCO) is committed to advocating for and acting on climate and water issues in line with UNICEF’s climate strategy. Together with its supporting role for field implementation, UNICEF also plays a pivotal role into evidence generation to inform multisector sector policy and strategy and in capacity development and training to increase sector’s abilities for WASH/Health/Education programme planning, implementation, and monitoring.

To support implementation of the above priorities, UNICEF is seeking suitable candidates to fulfill a Volunteer (UNV) position for a DRR (Disaster Risk Reduction) officer within the Beira Field Office and WASH/CEED team, to support implementation of its workplan on DRR-related issues in Sofala province including resilient construction. The UNV position will be directly supervised by the WASH Specialist based in Beira. The UNV will also engage with other sectors within the UNICEF Mozambique Country Office, partner organizations, such as governmental offices at national and decentralized level, NGOs and other civil society organizations.

In addition to duty station specific vaccine requirements, appointments are subject to confirmation of fully vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the appointment. It does not apply to UN Volunteers who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their contracts.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for UN Volunteers with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process and afterwards in your assignment.

Multi-sectoral DRR programme and overall strengthening of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management approaches • Support implementation and technical strengthening of the cross-sectoral Disaster Risk Reduction Programme, including the work on Early Warning Systems (EWS). • Act as a focal point for EWS in the field office and strengthen UNICEF’s engagement in this area, by engaging in relevant fora, identifying entry points for stronger UNICEF engagement in this area and, and providing technical inputs for communication, strategy, policy or resource mobilization documents. • Support the implementation of risk-informed programming approaches, including but not limited to building back better, Resilient constructions, Environmental Social Safeguards, and capacity building on climate resilient programming. • Liaise with Government partners and provide technical support for development and implementation of provincial and district-level local adaptation plans, contingency planning, and Disaster Risk Management policies and plans. • Contribute to the advocacy and technical assistance on climate change issues at provincial level, integrating youth and children in the center of climate solutions and support youth-led climate action as needed. • Assist in the monitoring and management of implementation agreements (project cooperation agreements, contracts, etc.). • Provide coordination support (documentation of meetings/events, preparation of coordination meetings with stakeholders, knowledge management). • In coordination with local partners at provincial level (civil society, government, other NGOs) to ensure the high level of implementation of Child Centered Disaster Risk Reduction (CCDRR) approach in coordination with partner. • Support programme reporting.

Strengthen mainstreaming of CEED in UNICEF’s programmes • Support the documentation of good practices, identify gaps, document success stories and development of technical notes for CEED, especially CCDRR, Emergency Preparedness, Build Back Better, resilient constructions and school-based interventions conducted by UNICEF and partners. • Support implementation of all climate change field office activities with resilient approaches such as the Market Based Sanitation Project and other emerging initiatives. • Provide technical assistance for education-related CEED activities, especially to evaluate the level of implementation of PEBE (school-based emergency preparedness) approach and the integration of climate change and environment contents and activities in the “circulos de interesse” programme, in coordination with the Education sector. • Contribute to the development of WASH programme / water supply related reports and other monitoring and reporting documentation as required.

Monitoring, Learning and Communication • Concept note on strengthened and child-sensitive Early Warning Systems in Sofala developed • Support the utilization of previously produced and validated capacity building and training materials; and provide inputs for development of new ones as needed. • Support monitoring of field implementation on CEED-related interventions (climate change, energy, environment, DRR), including liaison and coordination with implementing partners. • Support communication activities and elaboration of visibility materials and liaise with UNICEF communications department for dissemination of UNICEF CEED interventions over mass and social media.

Emergency preparedness and response • Support the FO in updating the preparedness plan through EPP and developing response plan in case of an emergency. • Support the CFO in the coordination of FO team when the response mode is activated. • Contribute to the development of the 5W for WASH.

• Accountability • Adaptability and flexibility • Creativity • Judgement and decision-making • Planning and organising • Professionalism • Self-management

/at the national and/or international level in water supply, DRR, climate change adaptation and mitigation, sanitation and hygiene, rural / community development, behavioral change and project management. • Excellent computer skills in word, excel and PowerPoint. Familiarity with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications would be an asset. • Demonstrated experience in working with Early Warning Systems highly desirable • Analytical mindset, and people orientated. • Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a challenging environment; ability to work effectively in a multicultural team of international and national personnel; • Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision; ability to work with tight deadlines; • Sound security awareness; • Have affinity with or interest in issues relating to children’s rights volunteerism as a mechanism for durable development, and the UN System.

As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials. This position is based in Beira. National UN Volunteers are part of the malicious insurance plan. National UN Volunteers are expected to be culturally sensitive and adjust to the prevailing culture and traditions

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