Job: Community DRR Specialist, Hpa-An Township

Location: Kayin State, Myanmar
Deadline: Monday, 11 November 2013

TERMS OF REFERENCE

I. POSITION INFORMATION

Position title: Community DRR Specialist

Position grade

Duty station: Hpa-An Township, Kayin State

Seniority band:3

Job family: Preparedness and Emergency Unit

Organizational unit:

Position number

Position rated

Subject to rotation

Reporting directly to: DRR Operations Officer

Overall supervision by:

National Project Coordinator

Managerial responsibility

Directly reporting staff

II. ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT AND SCOPE

Based on emerging DRR needs in Myanmar and IOM expertise in the region combined with experiences gained from implementing emergency response projects in the aftermath of cyclones Nargis and Giri, IOM is now implementing a Disaster Risk Reduction Project in Mon and Kayin States of Myanmar. The project intends to contribute to the enhancement of the capacities of 55,000 persons at village, as well as Government and Township institutions, to adequately manage emergency preparedness, disaster risk reduction and emergency response. The project aims to support the Government's overarching national framework in Myanmar for preparedness for and response to natural hazards, as contained in the 'Myanmar Action Plan on Disaster Risk Reduction (MAPDRR) 2009-2015'. Therefore, IOM is inviting qualified nationals with expertise in the areas of project management/coordination and DRR technical support to assist IOM to implement its DRR project in South-East of Myanmar. Under the general supervision of National Project Coordinator and the direct supervision of the DRR Operations Officer - Community Capacity Building, the incumbent will be assigned for following tasks and responsibilities.

III. RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Liaise with local village tract and village authorities, as well as with beneficiary households and establish rapport with community- and tractlevel stakeholders.

2. Identify the project's target villages according to IOM vulnerability criteria developed for the project.

3. Establish Village Disaster Management Committees at each confirmed target village and provide technical support for effective functioning.

4. Conduct the Village Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) in all project's target villages.

5. Conduct training and awareness-raising sessions on Disaster Risk Reduction to be offered to members of Village Disaster Management Committees and select community members at each target village.

6. Coordinate the progress of work at each target village with DRR Field Coordinator and update VCA session and reports, different DRR trainings, DRR Action Plans and distribution of Disaster Preparedness and Response Kits.

7. Supervise the village-level activities of the Field Assistants in Community on a daily basis, in support of the above terms of reference.

8. Ensure beneficiaries' feedbacks are well responded and reported to the DRR Field Coordinator.

9. Support the monitoring and evaluation activities of the project.

10. Undertake regular duty travel throughout Mon and Kayin States, Thanintharyi region, as may be required.

11. Perform any other duties that may be required.

IV. COMPETENCIES

The incumbent is expected to demonstrate the following technical and behavioural competencies

Behavioural Accountability

• Accepts and gives constructive criticism
• Follows all relevant procedures, processes, and policies
• Meets deadline, cost, and quality requirements for outputs
• Monitors own work to correct errors
• Takes responsibility for meeting commitments and for any shortcomings Client Orientation
• Identifies the immediate and peripheral clients of own work
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with clients
• Identifies and monitors changes in the needs of clients, including donors, governments, and project beneficiaries
• Keeps clients informed of developments and setbacks

Continuous Learning

• Contributes to colleagues' learning
• Demonstrates interest in improving relevant skills
• Demonstrates interest in acquiring skills relevant to other functional areas
• Keeps abreast of developments in own professional area Communication
• Actively shares relevant information
• Clearly communicates, and listens to feedback on, changing priorities and procedures
• Writes clearly and effectively, adapting wording and style to the intended audience
• Listens effectively and communicates clearly, adapting delivery to the audience Creativity and Initiative
• Actively seeks new ways of improving programmes or services
• Expands responsibilities while maintaining existing ones
• Persuades others to consider new ideas
• Proactively develops new ways to resolve problems Leadership and Negotiation
• Convinces others to share resources
• Actively identifies opportunities for and promotes organizational change
• Presents goals as shared interests
• Articulates vision to motivate colleagues and follows through with commitments Performance Management
• Provides constructive feedback to colleagues
• Identifies ways for their staff to develop their abilities and careers
• Provides fair, accurate, timely, and constructive staff evaluations
• Uses staff evaluations appropriately in recruitment and other relevant HR procedures
• Holds directly reporting managers accountable for providing fair, accurate, timely, and constructive staff evaluations Planning and Organizing
• Sets clear and achievable goals consistent with agreed priorities for self and others
• Identifies priority activities and assignments for self and others
• Organizes and documents work to allow for planned and unplanned handovers
• Identifies risks and makes contingency plans
• Adjusts priorities and plans to achieve goals
• Allocates appropriate times and resources for own work and that of team members Professionalism
• Masters subject matter related to responsibilities
• Identifies issues, opportunities, and risks central to responsibilities
• Incorporates gender-related needs, perspectives, and concerns, and promotes equal gender participation
• Persistent, calm, and polite in the face of challenges and stress
• Treats all colleagues with respect and dignity

Works effectively with people from different cultures by adapting to relevant cultural contexts Knowledgeable about and promotes IOM core mandate and migration solutions

Teamwork

• Actively contributes to an effective, collegial, and agreeable team environment
• Contributes to, and follows team objectives
• Gives credit where credit is due
• Seeks input and feedback from others
• Delegates tasks and responsibilities as appropriate
• Actively supports and implements final group decisions
• Takes joint responsibility for team's work Technological Awareness
• Learns about developments in available technology
• Proactively identifies and advocates for cost-efficient technology solutions
• Understands applicability and limitation of technology and seeks to apply it to appropriate work Resource Mobilization
• Establishes realistic resource requirements to meet IOM needs

Technical

• Good knowledge on community mobilizing and participatory tools. Computer literate (MS Word and Excel). Must have a client-oriented and result-oriented mind-set, and uphold the programme values of caring, innovating, partnering, demonstrating competence, and working for positive change. Ability to work under difficult conditions.

V. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Myanmar National with University degree. Minimum 2 year working experience with UNs and NGOs and at least 1 year experience in implementing community-level DRR projects, preferably in Mon and/or Kayin States.

VI. LANGUAGES Required

• Ability to read, write and speak English

Advantageous

• Understanding Mon and/or Kayin Language is an advantage.

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