Disaster Risk Reduction And Management Consultant

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• The consultant will work closely with the GGGI Project Implementing Office  in Janakpur located within the Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives in Janakpur, Madhesh Province of Nepal.
• The officials; Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Chief Administrative Officer, Agriculture Officer, Planning Officer, IT Officer, DRR Focal Person, ward chairpersons etc.
• Farmers groups of CSA project. 

• To support the coordination and communication with the project municipalities for LEOC establishment and operationalization.
• To support in organizing training, orientations, workshops for municipality officials, women farmers groups and school students in the project areas.
• To coordinate, follow up and monitor access and utilization of weather information, early warnings, alerts, and agromet advisories by the farmers in the project area.
• To identify good practices, success stories, issues and challenges in access, dissemination and adoption of early warnings, weather information, alerts and agromet advisories for developing audio visuals.
• To support organizing and managing flood and fire simulation exercises in the project municipalities.
• To support the procurement and distribution of emergency equipment for the selected ward offices within project municipalities.
• Accompany project team to meetings and field visits to support and learn when required.
• Participate and contribute to technical discussions related to agriculture, forestry, agribusiness, disaster risk management and relevant sectors.
• To carry out other communication, documentation, data collection, field visits and monitoring in response to quality delivery of activities under Output 1.1 

•  Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, environmental, management, engineering, social sciences or any other equivalent field of study.
• Minimum of 2 years field-based experience in promotion and communication of community based early warning system, weather forecasts, agromet advisories, alerts etc. for disaster preparedness and response.
• Experience in community awareness, capacity building and mobilization in adoption and promotion of weather information, early warnings, alerts and agromet advisories for climate smart agriculture practices.
• Working experiences with municipalities for community based DRRM and climate smart agriculture promotion.
• Good command of spoken and written English and Nepali languages. Knowledge of Maithili, Hindi or other local languages of Madhesh Province will be added advantage.
• Should have good computer literacy in standard Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook) and other audio-visual applications. 
• Residents of Madhesh province will be prioritized.

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