Food and Agriculture Organization
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Job Description
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The Young Professional Officer (Resilience to Climate Change and Disasters) maintains regular contacts with professional officers at the Regional Office for functional guidance on matters relating to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Change, climate actions and resilience to disasters.
Reporting Lines:
The Young Professional Officer (Resilience to Climate Change and Disasters) reports to the Field Programme Officer/Regional Resilience Focal Point as primary supervisor and works under the guidance of the Natural Resources Officer (Climate Change).
Technical Focus:
Support to planning, delivery and reporting of climate change and disaster resilience initiatives in the agriculture, forestry, fisheries sectors including DRR, Climate Change, climate actions, preparedness for, and response to shocks and crises. Provision of technical assistance and support to research, collection of dada and information, technical analysis for the delivery of regional and country programme/projects and capacity development initiatives related to climate change and disaster resilience in agriculture, including capacity development on preparedness, adaptation/mitigation and response to shocks and crises.
Key Functions:
- Analyses relevant technical social, economic, environmental, and technology information, data and/or statistics for input in various documents;
- Maintains records and updates databases and web pages;
- Provides technical support to various projects;
- Collaborates in the development of training tools and materials and the organization of workshops/seminars etc.;
- Participates in the organization and follow-up of meetings, consultations and conferences, the production of required materials and the provision of information and assistance to partners.
Minimum Requirements:
- Advanced university degree in agriculture, agro-climatology, natural resources, natural sciences, biology, climate change, disaster risk management or a related field.
- One year of relevant experience in sustainable agriculture development, climate change and/or climate risk management and/or disaster risk reduction and/or disasters related issues in agriculture.
- Working knowledge (proficient – level C) of English and limited knowledge (intermediate – level B) of another official FAO language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish).
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