Overview
The role involves coordinating an initiative on anticipatory action and shock-responsive social protection, contributing to emergency preparedness and response strategies, early warning, and response planning.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead national and local level coordination of an anticipatory action and shock-responsive social protection initiative.
- Provide guidance on risk analysis, trigger mechanisms, and targeting approaches.
- Support technical alignment of existing anticipatory action plans.
- Support policy dialogue and alignment with national social protection strategies and disaster risk management frameworks.
- Support the identification of potential and sustainable financing sources.
- Establish a weather monitoring protocol and provide early warning updates.
- Review SOPs for AA and ensure readiness for swift action.
- Support the design and rollout of scalable cash transfer programs and other social assistance tools.
- Strengthen linkages between anticipatory action and climate services/parametric insurance.
- Document and share lessons learned on anticipatory approaches.
- Support and coordinate the development of research initiatives on anticipatory approaches.
- Contribute to emergency assessment capacities, contingency planning, trainings, scenario building, simulations, and Concept of Operations.
- Contribute to cross-functional analysis to inform anticipatory action programming.
- Convene and chair coordination meetings and technical working groups.
- Oversee planning, budgeting, and implementation of project activities.
- Monitor progress and ensure timely reporting.
- Support resource mobilization efforts.
- Lead the organization and coordination of field missions.
- Travel as required.
- Other tasks as required.
Required Experience
- At least four years of professional experience in early warning, anticipatory action and disaster risk management.
- Experience in designing and implementing programmes in the thematic areas of early warning and anticipatory action.
- Experience with the set-up of anticipatory action systems, particularly for droughts and floods.
- Experience linking climate risk analysis and anticipatory action with national policies, strategies and legal frameworks.
- Demonstrable experience of supporting governments to prepare for, anticipate or respond to emergencies, including experience in capacity strengthening with government and partners, leading trainings, simulations and projects with counterparts.
- Experience in the development of research initiatives aimed at gathering evidence of anticipatory approaches, supporting disaster risk management frameworks and policies.
- Work experience in Honduras and Central America is desirable.
- Experience linking anticipatory action with social protection in emergency contexts is desirable.
- Prior experience of working with the cluster system or interagency fora is desirable.
- Knowledge of WFP assistance modalities and cooperating partners management processes are highly desirable.
- Experience implementing protection, accountability to affected population and/or gender programming is desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced University degree in disaster risk management, environmental science, meteorology, agriculture, food security, social sciences or other field relevant to international development assistance, or First University Degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.
