Overview
Support the design and delivery of data-driven initiatives to identify multi-hazard displacement risks, strengthen resilience, inform early warning systems, and enable anticipatory action in the region.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the improvement of displacement trigger risk modelling.
- Support the use of geospatial and predictive analytics tools.
- Contribute to regional initiatives on risk analytics, hazard monitoring, and trigger design.
- Maintain and advance technical knowledge of DRR and EW data tools and methodologies.
- Contribute to knowledge sharing by organizing workshops, trainings, consultations, and tailored knowledge products.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of a regional DRR and AA strategy.
- Provide technical inputs, backstopping and quality assurance for country offices.
- Support efforts to align work with regional and continental frameworks and climate resilience strategies.
- Contribute to strengthening evidence-based policy and programming.
- Support improvements to early warning systems.
- Provide technical inputs on regional pre-arranged financing mechanisms.
- Support overall RE2CLID programme-level information management.
- Work closely with DTM teams and relevant technical officers.
- Support the standardization of data tools, templates and processes.
- Serve as a regional focal point for displacement data issues.
- Maintain and support institutional management platforms.
- Provide analytical support for high-level dissemination.
- Support programme development, adoption, and impact.
- Support human mobility and climate change nexus programmes, disaster risk reduction, early warning, and anticipatory action.
- Participate as delegated in regional AA and DRR taskforces and coordination platforms.
- Support cross-border cooperation with National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) and DRM authorities.
- Contribute to ensuring regional coherence on DRR, EW, and AA activities.
- Contribute to the design and formulation of DRR and climate change programming.
- Support resource mobilization to strengthen data-driven DRR and EW.
- Support the identification, development and adoption of DRR-sensitive and anticipatory action policies.
- Advocate for the integration of AA and DRR in humanitarian and development planning cycles.
- Draft and contribute to advocacy materials, policy briefs, and communication products.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Required Experience
- Master’s degree with five years of relevant professional experience; or University degree with seven years of relevant professional experience.
- Work experience in emergency situations (complex emergency or disaster response) at an international level is required.
- Demonstrated experience in humanitarian affairs, emergency preparedness, crisis/emergency relief management, rehabilitation, and climate change adaptation.
- Experience in implementing data analytics components of DRR and EW programming.
- Technical experience with early warning systems.
- Experience designing and delivering capacity development activities in the area of expertise.
- Knowledge and experience of working with humanitarian coordination mechanisms.
- Proven expertise with climate change impact modelling, climate data analysis, and resilience/adaptation strategies.
- Familiarity with advanced climate simulation tools (SSPs, RCPs, IAMs, sectoral models).
- Experience with NLP and text analysis may be useful.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in DRR, Environment, Environmental Engineering, Social Sciences, International Relations, Data, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field from an accredited academic institution.
- University degree in the above fields.
