Overview
The Consultant will provide technical leadership, strategic analysis, and strengthened coordination for effective, timely, and sustainable emergency preparedness and response.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead development and implementation of multi-hazard emergency preparedness and contingency plans.
- Coordinate operational readiness and response for various emergencies.
- Guide response planning, including targeting, response modalities, and logistics.
- Monitor emerging risks, humanitarian trends, and food security indicators.
- Lead scenario building and early warning analysis.
- Coordinate anticipatory action and risk financing initiatives.
- Represent WFP in national, district, and interagency coordination mechanisms.
- Strengthen cross-sector coordination with Government, UN agencies, NGOs, donors, and private sector actors.
- Foster coherent multi-agency approaches to preparedness planning.
- Support harmonization of emergency response standards and joint planning.
- Lead training, simulations, and capacity building initiatives.
- Support localization and transfer of knowledge, tools, and systems.
- Facilitate after action reviews and lessons learned processes.
- Ensure emergency preparedness is integrated into WFP programme portfolios.
- Promote accountability to affected populations, protection, gender, and inclusion.
- Draft and review SOPs, concept notes, and proposals.
- Produce high-quality situation reports, early warning briefs, and analytical updates.
- Maintain and update preparedness and response tools, workflows, dashboards, and databases.
- Support dissemination of analytical products.
- Support development and periodic revision of Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) and business continuity plans.
- Ensure contracting processes align with operational readiness needs.
- Identify operational gaps, propose mitigation measures, and support readiness actions.
- Serve as a key liaison between WFP and national emergency coordination structures.
- Support government-led emergency coordination platforms.
- Facilitate joint assessments, information sharing, and coordinated contingency planning.
- Reinforce WFP’s role as a technical leader in emergency preparedness.
- Contribute to resource mobilization by preparing inputs for proposals and donor briefs.
- Support engagement with donors.
- Identify funding gaps and opportunities.
- Ensure donor visibility requirements are integrated into EPR operations.
- Perform any other responsibilities aligned with emergency preparedness and response.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible professional experience in emergency preparedness, humanitarian response, disaster risk management, or related fields.
- Experience working with government disaster management structures, UN agencies, or humanitarian coordination platforms is an asset.
- Experience in anticipatory action, early warning systems, or shock responsive social protection is desirable.
- Demonstrated experience in capacity strengthening and training facilitation.
- Experience supporting resource mobilization and donor engagement is an advantage.
Qualifications
• Advanced University Degree in International Development, Disaster Risk Management, Humanitarian Affairs, Social Sciences, Public Policy, or related field; OR First University Degree with additional relevant experience.
