Disaster Risk Reduction And Management Consultant

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Job Description

GGGI is hiring a consultant to offer on-site support at the GGGI Project Implementing Office in Janakpur, Nepal. The Consultant will support the delivery of the activities planned under output 1.1. The consultant will work under the guidance of Senior Associate DRM and Agriculture, Senior Project Coordination Officer and Program Management Officer to ensure that the outputs delivered are in line with project KPIs.
The consultant needs to prepare his/her own delivery focused workplan based on the annual work plan and get it approved. The progress will be tracked accordingly.
Institutional Arrangements:

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.

The consultancy service under this ToR is targeted to support the CSA project team in delivery of the identified activities under Output 1.1. The major objectives of the assignments are:

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

Qualifications And Experience:

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.

Source: https://careers.gggi.org/vacancy/nepal-disaster-risk-reduction-and-management-consultant-553394.html

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