Overview
To enhance national coordination and visibility for Syria's DRR efforts by establishing a National DRR Platform that supports the implementation of national risk-reduction priorities.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical expertise and advisory support to operationalize and establish the National Multi-stakeholder DRR Platform.
- Facilitate outreach and strategic engagement with national and international partners.
- Collaborate with International DRR Governance Consultant on strategy development.
- Manage planning, execution, and post-event analysis of workshops, trainings, and consultations.
- Synchronize project deliverables with MoEDM priority recovery planning processes.
- Streamline communication and data-sharing channels.
- Advance MoEDM initiatives to embed risk-informed recovery approaches into national policies.
- Oversee and document comprehensive recovery readiness assessments.
- Lead capacity-development frameworks.
- Cultivate and maintain structured communication channels.
- Author and design high-level executive presentations, briefings, and strategic communication materials.
- Formalize the documentation of MoEDM-convened proceedings.
- Boost the visibility of MoEDM-led initiatives.
- Synthesize and finalize technical inputs for progress reports and evaluations.
Required Experience
- At least 3 years of work experience in communication, stakeholder engagement, or project coordination is required.
- Proven experience in organizing high-level national workshops or multi-stakeholder consultations is required.
- Experience in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and humanitarian-development-peace collaboration is desirable.
- Experience in supporting international technical experts is highly desirable.
- Experience in working within the Syrian public sectors is highly desirable.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree in Communications, International Relations, Public Administration, Social Sciences, or any related field is required.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
