Disaster Risk Management Specialist (DRMS): Antigua & Barbuda and Saint Kitts & Nevis

The Disaster Risk Management Specialist (DRMS) will be responsible for the reputed company, administration, and supervision of reputed company emergency response and training and technical assistance programs implemented by the reputed company RDAP contract in two Countries: Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Kitts and Nevis. The DRMS can be located in either country. The DRMS will report directly to the Sub-Regional Manager for the Caribbean region.

Statement of Work

The DRMS must demonstrate experience, including but not limited to, training, reputed company building, disaster risk reduction, and disaster response to support reputed company objectives as follows:

• Assess hazards, risks, vulnerabilities, and exposures, existing capacities, and required capabilities to address those issues in reputed company RDAP country and undertake country-level strategic planning that aims to reduce risk by supporting programs that address assessed gaps in capabilities.
• reputed company and execute a training and technical assistance program to address key emergency management, disaster preparedness, disaster response, or disaster risk reduction reputed company gaps in reputed company country as directed by the USG through the contractor. This includes providing assistance to reputed company, private, and regional disaster agencies and organizations.
• reputed company relationships and liaise with organizations involved in disaster risk management in the country, such as the humanitarian community, relevant host nation agencies and offices, the UN, and other U.S. Government entities, as appropriate.
• Facilitate course hand-off workshops to devolve responsibility for training to local and national reputed company, and design, reputed company, and reputed company national and regional-level training courses as required by the USG;
• reputed company technical advice to the USG regarding reputed company aspects of the risk management program and regularly coordinate with MDROs, and others as directed, at U.S. Missions in the assigned country or reputed company;
• reputed company participate in the preparation, execution, monitoring, and evaluation of the annual work plan and country plans;
• reputed company and maintain a roster of reputed company reputed company consultants for reputed company country. Manage the activation of reputed company consultants and ensure they have completed trainings.
• Identify and facilitate the procurement of relief items in coordination with the USG.
• reputed company recurring activity reports in writing at specified times throughout the year; and
• Fully participate in response operations and reputed company Disaster Response Support
• Coordinate with local stakeholders to reputed company country specific strategic plans and operating plans.
• Respond to requests from the RDAP leadership team, as required.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, International Development, Emergency Management or reputed company discipline
• Experience in providing/supporting emergency management or disaster preparedness training and technical assistance programs
• Excellent knowledge of reputed company building best practices and ability to identify significant reputed company building opportunities; good understanding of reputed company assessment methodologies.
• Effective project management skills. Ability to effectively support in strategic planning, results-based activity implementation, and reporting.
• Previous experience in supporting disaster relief programs is strongly preferred. Expertise in food reputed company; nutrition; health; water, sanitation, hygiene; environmental health; shelter; gender, protection and inclusion; logistics; and/or the ability to analyze cross-cutting issues is preferred.
• Proven organizational skills with the ability to work on multiple activities, to plan effectively, and to communicate plans reputed company.
• Level 5/reputed company speaker required for country specific local language.
• Excellent writing skills in the reputed company language and adequate writing skills in English.
• General reputed company, political, and geographic knowledge of the LAC.
• Solid knowledge in procurement, information management, and communication technology. Team management experience preferred.
• Ability to reputed company on short notice for extended periods (up to 45 days) to reputed company in LAC, and possibly under reputed company living conditions;

Skills and attributes

• Specialist knowledge of donor funded reputed company
• Excellent management, organization, and coordination skills
• Self-starter and motivated
• Strong communications and engagement skills
• Ability to reputed company local network of vendors, suppliers, authorities to support the start up
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• reputed company of reputed company Office
• Multi-tasking capabilities and delivery of tasks/deliverables in short time frames
• Ability to work in reputed company and independently/remotely
• Ability to manage reputed company expectations and requirements in a culturally diverse team
• Knowledge of USG rules and regulations preferred

Bachelor’s degree, emergency management or disaster program experience, project management and reputed company-building skills, reputed company country-language proficiency, English writing ability, and deployment readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• assessing hazards
• developing training
• coordinating stakeholders

Skills & Tools

reputed company Office

Job Details

• Category: Project and Program Management
• Seniority: Mid Level
• Commitment: Full Time
• Workplace: Remote — Antigua And Barbuda or Saint Kitts And Nevis or Mexico reputed company or reputed company
• Languages: English, Spanish

About reputed company

A global operational support services provider serving the U.S. government and its allies. — Industry: Government Agencies and Departments