Overview
The Disaster Risk Reduction / Management and Early Warning System Analyst will ensure that the project’s multi-hazard Early Warning System interventions are technically sound, socially inclusive, and institutionally sustainable. The role involves providing technical oversight of Early Warning System design and installation, contributing to knowledge management, and overseeing reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical oversight of EWS design, reviewing and validating designs, SOPs, and protocols.
- Ensure early warnings are inclusive and reach vulnerable communities.
- Support the technical and institutional capacity development of DHM to produce and disseminate early warnings.
- Oversee the development of community-based response plans, multi-hazard-based risk assessments, and training of communities.
- Oversee system installation and operation, monitoring and guiding contractors.
- Certify deliverables and ensure proper documentation for payments.
- Contribute to knowledge management and build institutional and community capacity through training, drills, simulations, and awareness campaigns.
- Document good practices and lessons for replication.
- Certify completion and quality of works related to hydrological equipment installation and operation.
- Maintain equipment records, compile periodic technical reports, and provide updates to PMU/PIU.
- Ensure project data and information on DRM and EWS systems are maintained transparently and effectively.
- Contribute to annual workplans and budgeting within the PMU as related to DRM and EWS systems.
- Monitor the progress of DRM and EWS interventions according to the annual work plan.
- Provide technical inputs to donor reports and evaluations.
- Contribute to the inclusion of EWS in Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMPs).
- Mainstream Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) considerations in DRR and EWS.
- Strengthen inclusive participation by engaging diverse community groups.
- Ensure accessibility of information and communication systems.
- Collect and utilize sex, age, and disability disaggregated data.
- Identify, synthesize and document best practices and lessons learned.
- Lead and support the planning, development, and operationalization of a Disaster Information Management System (DIMS).
- Establish data management frameworks, standards, and protocols.
- Ensure interoperability and integration of EWS-related data with existing national platforms.
- Support the development of dashboards, decision-support tools, and reporting mechanisms.
Required Experience
Applicants with a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of working experience in disaster risk management and early warning systems. Desired skills include experience in DRR, EWS, and hazard risk management; developing operational protocols and training; gender and social inclusion in early warning systems and anticipatory action; World Meteorological Organization (WMO) frameworks and Sendai DRR targets; the Hindu Kush Himalayan context, GLOF risk reduction and monsoon flood risk reduction; working with UNDP, GCF, or other donor-funded projects, particularly in climate change adaptation or disaster risk reduction; and environmental and climate change issues in Nepal, including GLOFs, Eco-DRR, and early warning systems.
Qualifications
Advanced University Degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Disaster Risk Management, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, or other relevant discipline is required. or A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the above-mentioned fields in combination with additional 2 years of relevant experience will be given due consideration in lieu of master’s degree.
