Project Coordination Assistant

The Project Coordination Assistant will work for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Initiatives including Anticipatory Action and Emergency and Response, Support linking Anticipatory Action and Shock-Responsive Social Protection including cash preparedness and AA capacity building, Assist collaboration efforts both with key partners and potential donors and support project documentation, communication efforts and evidence-based advocacy efforts.

Tasks and responsibilities

The incumbent will be responsible for the following deliverables:

• Support hazard monitoring, risk profile analysis, and impact-based forecasting for anticipatory action, emergency response, and recovery.
• Conduct community risk assessments to identify risks to agriculture, food security, priority areas, and livelihoods.
• Consolidate early warning information on priority risks and select key indicators for primary climate risks.
• Formulate hazard-specific crisis timelines and identify timings for early warning and anticipatory action.
• Coordinate with government departments and stakeholders to define protocols and standard operating procedures for linking early warning to anticipatory action.
• Assist in the timely implementation of anticipatory action and emergency response operations at the country level, including conducting field missions and advising on operational arrangements.
• Embed Anticipatory Action into national and local disaster risk management systems.
• Liaise with social protection and cash preparedness experts to design humanitarian assistance and beneficiary targeting.
• Support beneficiary targeting and data analysis to link social protection with anticipatory action initiatives.
• Conduct pilots, generate evidence, build capacity, and advocate to improve emergency preparedness, response, and recovery efforts.
• Support capacity-building activities and deliver the FAO Anticipatory Action learning program.
• Strengthen collaboration for joint initiatives with actors, partnerships, and inter-agency efforts.
• Engage donors and new partners on the Anticipatory Action agenda.
• Produce and update information products such as reports, maps, charts, and infographics.
• Prepare project progress reports, activity reports, lessons learned, case studies, and other special reports as needed.
• Any other task assigned by the FAOR/AFAOR when necessary.

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in science or social science discipline. Undergraduate and/or postgraduate degree in Environment/Climate Change, Geography, Agriculture, Statistics, and Development Studies would be considered as an asset
• 5 to 6 years of relevant professional experience to handle a programme and information management including work experience with national and international NGO’s, UN agencies, governments and donors.
• National of Bangladesh
• Working knowledge of English and Bangla (C1)

Technical/Functional Skills

• Strong analytical skills: ability to summarize and present complex information in effective manner. Experience in using infographics will be an added advantage.
• Skills in networking, negotiation, persuasion and advocacy for mainstreaming new concepts and approaches.
• Knowledge and understanding of DRR issues and DRM framework in Bangladesh. Incumbent must be familiar with agenda on Forecast-based Financing / Action (FbF/FbA) or Anticipatory Action and Emergency/Rapid Response.
• Extent and relevance of experience in management of computer programs such as Excel, Word, Power Point and statistical software.
• The candidate must demonstrate high communication skills both verbal and written, negotiation, vision, strategy, coordination and teamwork.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, planning, and problem-solving skills, as well as gender-sensitive and cross-cultural
• Competency and Knowledge and experience in HR
• Excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate and influence across different levels and diverse teams in and out of the
• Organization.

Source: https://jobs.fao.org/careersection/fao_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=2402256