Technical Advisor I – DRR and Recovery

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Catholic Relief Services

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1943

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

Catholic Relief Services is a global humanitarian organization that eases the suffering of and provides development assistance to people in need in over 100 countries. As the official international relief organization of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, CRS focuses on emergency response, health, agriculture, education, and justice and peacebuilding. Their work is guided by Catholic values and the organization aims to serve the poor and vulnerable, regardless of race, religion, or nationality.

📋 Description

• Support the integration of Disaster Risk Reduction/Recovery (DRR/R) across all RAPID program interventions. • Provide technical guidance in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality standards, donor requirements, and industry best practices. • Help ensure that DRR/Recovery through the Community Led Disaster Risk Management (CLDRM) approaches are effective, adaptive, and innovative. • Contribute to the implementation of agency-wide strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in DRR/Recovery in humanitarian response. • Provide technical solutions to regional and County Program teams, remotely and on-site. • Contribute to the development of the technical design for proposals, support the process of preparation, design, submission and approval of project concepts and full-fledged proposals. • Support capacity strengthening initiatives in DRR/Recovery programming for staff and partners. • Collect and analyze program data, capture and share lessons learned and best practices for improvements. • Contribute to maintaining relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions, participate in forums in DRR/Recovery.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in studies related to DRR, such as Disaster Management, Environmental Management, Climate Risk Management, preparedness, humanitarian aid, is required. • Minimum of five-eight relevant work experience with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO, with minimum of two years relevant field-based experience in Community Led Disaster Risk Management (CLDRM). • Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks. • Knowledge of technical principles and concepts in DDR/AA. General knowledge of other related disciplines to ensure a proper cross-sectoral approach. • Experience in project design and proposal development. Experience in writing content for proposals. • Knowledge of capacity-strengthening best practices. • Experience with program monitoring and evaluation and analysis. • Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based civil society partners. Understanding of partnership principles. • Strong relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings. • Good strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment. • Good technical writing skills. • Presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills. • Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, life insurance, vision, and retirement savings plan