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Technical Specialist – Disaster Risk Reduction is needed at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
JOB TITLE: Technical Specialist – Disaster Risk Reduction
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Job ID: 31392
LOCATION: Lagos, Nigeria
Practice Area – Job Family: Environment&Disaster Reduction – Disaster Reduction and Recovery
Grade: P3
Vacancy Type: FTA International
Posting Type: External
Contract Duration: 1 Year with possibility for extension
Background
- One of the poorest and most environmentally degraded regions in the world, the West African Sahel region is also considered one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change, with temperature increases projected to be 1.5 times higher than the rest of the world. Climate vulnerability is compounded by the region’s high dependence on rain-fed agriculture and its natural resources to support food security and livelihoods, high population growth, rapid and unplanned urbanization, environmental degradation, deepening poverty levels, governance challenges and low socio-economic development, and chronic humanitarian crises due to recurrent drought, flooding, food insecurity, epidemics and violent conflict. These factors increase the fragility of communities while recurrent disasters have been causing a continuous deterioration of livelihoods, exposing people to deeper poverty and food insecurity and undermining their resilience to future shocks and stresses, with varying impacts on different social groups such as women, children, the elderly, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups. The cumulative impacts of these events have been eroding hard-earned development gains, while undermining recovery from the various crises as well as the resilience to future crises.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Master’s degree in Management, Social Policy, Public Policy, Economics, Environment, Development Studies or a related area.
Experience:
- A minimum of 5 years of progressive and relevant experience in the field of disaster risk reduction, resilience building, climate change, or in very closely related fields or relevant fields in West Africa.
- Experience in providing regional policy advice, regional technical assistance, and capacity development to support to multi-stakeholder institutions in establishing and coordinating multi-partner interventions.
- Experience working on the domestication of the Sendai Framework, including Sendai monitoring tools at country and regional levels.
- Experience working within UN agencies and intergovernmental organizations and field experience in West Africa is preferred.
- Experience of UN programming modalities, rules and regulations, is preferred.
- Extensive experience in project development and management.
- Coordination experience working with government, development partners, and international partners would be an asset.
- Excellent knowledge of and extensive resilience-building experience in West Africa, including conflict-sensitivity, human rights, rights of children, youth and women, is preferred.
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Deadline | 9th July, 2020. |
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