Associate Director, Housing Disaster Resilience and Recovery

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.
  

• 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%)