Overview
The Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction Officer will provide technical advisory, coordination, and capacity-development support to advance disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction at state, district, and community levels.
Key Responsibilities
- Undertake a situational analysis of disability inclusion within the assigned state’s DRR architecture.
- Provide technical support to strengthen the application of relevant national and state disaster management policies.
- Support the development and application of key technical tools and frameworks for disability-inclusive preparedness and planning.
- Support community-level preparedness processes across the pilot districts.
- Support the design, delivery and documentation of disability-inclusive training, simulations and other capacity-building activities.
- Prepare a state capacity-building roadmap.
- Support the preparation of a state-level Detailed Project Report (DPR).
- Document and synthesize good practices, lessons learned and implementation experience.
- Contribute to programme monitoring, mid-term review and other learning processes.
- Contribute to learning and dissemination products.
- Prepare a final assignment report.
- Perform any other related tasks as may reasonably be required by the supervisor.
Required Experience
- Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience in the area of disability inclusion, disaster risk reduction and management, climate change adaptation, humanitarian preparedness, resilience, community or sustainable development or related areas.
- Demonstrated experience working with or within government institutions, particularly disaster management institutions, social sector departments, local authorities or related public systems at state or district level or OPDs at state or national level or with Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) and applying rights-based, CRPD-compliant approaches in programme design, implementation or policy processes.
- Experience in facilitating multi-stakeholder consultations, coordination processes, workshops, and capacity-building activities involving government, communities and civil society stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Master's degree in Disability Studies, Social Policy, International Development, Public Administration, Environmental Science, Disaster Management, Climate Change, or a related field.
- A first-level university degree in combination with 2 additional years of relevant academic qualifications and professional experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
