Disaster risk reduction adviser Vacancy at Voluntary Service Overseas in Morigaon,India

Post:Disaster risk reduction adviser
Organization:Voluntary Service Overseas
Location:Morigaon,India

This project is co-funded by the European Union as a pilot action towards the ‘EU Aid Volunteers’ initiative. It is a 9 month volunteering placement with Oxfam India and Morigaon Mahila Mehfil, focussing on building community resilience and disaster risk reduction programmes. It is open to EU residents only.

Assisting in the setup of ongoing community volunteer programs focused on resilience. From these community volunteer programs, disaster response cells will be created. A volunteer management system, community mobilization methods and a disaster communication system will be developed and transferred to host organisations by means of mentoring, training, and written materials. Host organisations will be taught how to recruit and engage community volunteers in resilience building activities and how to train them to mobilize the community in times of crisis.

The volunteer will:

•     Work in close collaboration with the MMM
•     Lead in developing a resilience index for communities living in recurrent disaster prone areas
•     Documentation of practical and replicable good practices on community adaptive mechanism and community resilience for disseminating to larger communities
•     Support in developing an early warning system with protocols for areas vulnerable to flood and erosion
•     Support in developing an emergency contingency plan for Oxfam and partner organisations
•     Design, develop and implement effective monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning systems for the resilience building project

For more information on the role please click on the link in the How To Apply section.
How to apply:

When applying please quote ‘EU Aid Resilience building specialist India.’ Also, please note this placement is open to EU nationals only.

For more information and to apply please go to http://www.vso.org.uk/volunteer/placements/disaster-risk-reduction-advis...
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Closing date: 01 Nov 2013
How to Apply
http://reliefweb.int/job/606089/disaster-risk-reduction-adviser