Regional HEA & DRR Capacity Building Advisor - Nairobi

In collaboration with National Offices, develop and implement a highly affective emergency preparedness, response and disaster risk reduction capacity building program.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

National Office Disaster Management Capacity
• Develop a National Rapid Response Team (NRRT) capacity development program
• Collaborate with subject matter experts in developing NRRT training modules
• Work with respective National Offices to implement the developed NRRT training program
• Review, update, and contextualize Track I and II training modules
• Support EAR National Offices in developing the capacity of respective Disaster Management Committees
  
  Regional Surge Capacity
• Collaborate with peer Southern Africa and West Africa HEA Capacity Building Advisors in reviewing, and re-establishing the Africa Rapid Response Team based on lessons learned from recent large scale responses in the three regions.
• Collaborate with peer HEA Capacity Building Advisors from across all WV Regions to ensure that identified capacity building best practices are adopted and used in EAR surge capacity building initiatives.
• Work with the Associate Director for the EAR HEA & DM Learning Center to put in place a mechanism that enables regional rapid response team members to be quickly accessed and deployed when called upon.
  
  Disaster Risk Reduction
• Work with EAR National Offices to conduct a regional baseline aimed at establishing the current status of DRR mainstreaming.
• Support National Office DRR champions to promote DRR integration in all project management cycles.
• Support National Offices in the process of working with communities to review and revise community disaster risk reduction plans (CDRRPs) using lessons learned from various parts of Africa.
• Work with the Associate Director for the EAR HEA & DM LC to identify, document and disseminate good DRR practices.
• Establish a virtual regional DRR platform through which the regional DRR community of practice will be able to network, share ideas and continuously learn from each other.
  
  External Coordination & Networking
• Represent WV at various regional humanitarian capacity building and DRR working groups, especially those under the Inter-Agency Working Group (IAWG) framework.
• Support the Associate Director for the HEA & DM LC in developing sustainable working relationships with the academia in the area of both humanitarian training and DRR.
• Internal Coordination & Networking
• Ensure that key Partnership HEA capacity building and DRR stakeholders are either well informed or involved in key decisions related to the two themes.
  
  Resource Mobilization
• Develop a capacity building fundraising strategy which will ensure related program initiatives continue to receive adequate funding.
  

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

REQUIRED:
• A minimum of 7 years experience in relief/ development organizations
• Must have at least a Masters Degree in relevant field.
• Excellent working knowledge of all key disaster response standards.
• Experience with integrating DRR in project management cycles.
• Experience working with multiple inter-agency stakeholders.
• Experience in managing disaster response programs.
• Excellent adult learning facilitation skills.
• Strong empirical knowledge of the humanitarian industry including humanitarian charters, laws and standards.
• Strong commitment to WV’s vision, mission and core values.
• Skilled in developing and implementing adult capacity building programs.
• Ability to travel at least 40% of the time
  
  PREFERRED:
• Previous WV experience

Regional HEA & DRR Capacity Building Advisor -- Location: Nairobi