Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaboratively work with Area Offices and National Offices specific prioritized project or technical support. (35%)
• Provide surge capacity on programmatic and technical support as needed during the inception, technical staff onboarding and implementation of complex new projects as assigned by supervisor.
• Support situation update/report creation & distribution with all relevant teams.
• Collaboratively work with Area Offices and National Offices on overall HDRR strengthening initiatives. (30%)
• Support the work with Area Offices in the implementation of HDRR capacity assessments and/or training with Habitat National Offices, informing the allocation and follow up of disaster readiness grants.
• Support other prioritized HDRR strengthening initiatives on request.
• Travel to and operate in diverse settings to support Habitat and partner teams with disaster readiness, resilience and recovery programming. In case of an emergency response: deploy to provide surge capacity to the emergency project in potentially hazardous environments. (15%)
• Support HDRR team knowledge management, research and learning (10%)
• Summarize and disseminate new and existing research for advocacy and knowledge exchange. This involves direct coordination with Communications and the Learning and Research community of practice.
• Contribute to knowledge content management as required to HDRR themes and contents in the International Knowledge Center (IKC).
• Contribute to the ongoing update of the HDRR databases.
• Oversee After Action Review process, evaluation and documentation as assigned.
• Contribute to and manage other related projects. (10%)

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.

Years of Related Experience

• 7+ years of disaster response or risk reduction experience, including field experience.
• Formal training or equivalent experience in disaster risk reduction and emergency response management.