Disaster Risk Reduction Technical Advisor

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is looking for an Disaster Risk Reduction Technical Advisor (DRR TA) with the attached of scope of work.

QUALIFICATIONS AND PERSONAL SKILLS:

  • Self-motivated and able to prioritize work and multi-task to meet deadlines.
  • Excellent organization, planning and analytical skills.
  • Demonstrated capacity to work in teams and operate efficiently in stressful and fluid environments.
  • Excellent leadership skills with experience in mentoring and coaching staff and partners
  • Commitment to partners and program participants for the quality program
  • Capacity for innovation and to promote new initiatives.
  • Strong commitment to supportive supervision, staff development, coaching/mentoring and proven value addition to the high performance.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience:

  • Masters degree, preferably on rural development and agriculture. Further specialization on climate change adaptation and /or disaster risk reduction are desired.
  • At least 5 years proven experience of technical provision related to emergency response, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, integration of climate in rural development and related domains.
  • Technical knowledge on designing and managing disaster risk reduction initiatives, Community Based Disaster Risk Management, participatory capacity vulnerability analysis, and climate change adaptation (CCA) projects.
  • Experiences of integrating DRR/CCA into Livelihood and other development program.
  • Practical experience developing and conducting DRR/CCA related training.
  • Experience with NGOs or international development organization is preferable.
  • Familiarity networking work with government and non-government organizations at local and national level.
  • Fluent in written and spoken English and Vietnamese.
  • Able to travel (at least 30% of total time) to program/project areas.

Individuals interested in this job are invited to submit your applications via email to Catholic Relief Services at: [email protected];

Applications in English should include:

  • Cover letter;
  • CVs demonstrating relevant capacity and experience.
  • Related training module samples, if any

Deadline for submission: by 29th June 2015

For further information, please contact: Ms. Nguyen Thi – DRR Program Manager; Tel: 04. 37738300, ext: 140; Email: [email protected]

Job Details
Organisation Name: 
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Application Deadline: 
Mon, 2015-06-29