Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
Global Resilience Advisor
Nairobi (Kenya) or
Kampala (Uganda)
Are you passionate about supporting people and communities
affected by displacement to build their resilience to climate change,
environmental degradation and conflict?
Do you have demonstrated knowledge of programming for
multisector resilience in conflict-affected areas?
Who are we?
Climate change increasingly interacts with the drivers of
displacement, including conflict, and disproportionally affects developing
countries hosting the majority of the world’s refugees and displaced persons.
Therefore, through its Strategy 2025, DRC commits to respond to
the global climate crisis and environmental degradation by increasing the
adaptive capacities of people affected by conflict and displacement and by
ensuring that our own conduct is nature-positive.
The Programme Division develops programmatic concepts and
strategies relevant to DRC’s international operations and delivers support to
operations within these areas.
The Programme Division hosts various global specialist lead
functions including for DRC’s five core sectors: Protection, Shelter &
Settlements, Humanitarian Disarmament & Peacebuilding, Camp Coordination
& Camp management, and Economic Recovery.
The Division is furthermore overall responsible for continuously
developing and implementing DRC’s programme handbook and the DRC Response
Framework, which articulates how DRC seeks to save lives, promote durable
solutions and address root causes of displacement, – capturing DRC’s engagement
with persons of concern from the beginning to the end of their displacement.
The Programme Platform unit which hosts the Global Resilience
advisor role is responsible for strengthening strategic program development,
and systematically developing and effectively rolling out the DRC response
framework.
About the job
The Global Resilience Advisor will lead DRC’s 2025 global
strategic programming initiative to build resilience to conflict and climate
change of people affected by displacement.
The Global Resilience Advisor reports to the Head of the Programme
Platform Unit with technical reference to the Global lead on Addressing Root
causes of conflict & displacement (HQ).
The Global Resilience Advisor works in close collaboration with
DRCs Global Sector & Platform Leads, the Global Environmental Advisor and
establishes strong working relationships with regional & country heads of
program.
The Global Resilience Advisor is a key member of DRC’s ‘go
green’ community of practice and will form part of a team of global green
advisors.
The overall responsibility of the Global Resilience Advisor is
to manage DRC’s Conflict & Climate resilience strategic programming
initiative (SPI), namely by driving development of multisector,
community-driven resilience programming and disaster risk reduction, and
building DRC staff capacity in this domain.
In so doing, the Global Resilience Advisor will seek to build on
DRC’s existing work across its core sectors and will coordinate closely with
global and regional sector leads.
The Global Resilience Advisor sets standards for climate &
conflict resilience programming in accordance with global good practice,
provides programme quality control & monitoring, leads on
global/cross-regional programme design and business development and engages in
strategic alliance building with global resilience (development) partners and
policy forums.
This is a full-time global role.
Strategy and Policy
· Develop and maintain
global partnerships for evidence-building and learning on conflict &
climate resilience
· Support external
communication for donor & partner influencing and shared learning based on
DRC’s regenerative resilience programming
· Work closely with the
Global and Regional MEAL and communications teams to ensure research, learning
and data from resilience programming are captured, documented and
institutionalized and shared (incl through multi-media approaches)
· Strengthen DRC’s
relationships with academic institutions focused on research and learning on
regenerative resilience and circular practices
· Ensure that DRC’s
competitive slot as a global leader in Regenerative Resilience in Displacement
is secured and further strengthened
· Represent DRC in policy
and donor fora, contributing to global debate on ecological responses to
conflict, natural disasters and global migration
Technical advice and
support
· Provide technical
support for Regional Office and Country managers in the design, quality control
and monitoring of community-led systems-based resilience programming and
disaster risk reduction.
· Contribute to raising
funds for (cross)region regenerative and circular resilience programming
applying systems-based and nature-positive solutions.
· Deliver relevant policy,
standards, resources, guidance and tools to country and regional operations.
· Contribute to DRC’s
learning and evidence-building on resilience & community-led disaster risk
reduction programming, including by collecting and sharing good practice.
· Support documentation
and replication of good practices across countries/regions.
Resources, training and
learning
· Build DRC sector staff
capacity on programming for community resilience to (interlinked) conflict and
climate risks. This will include development and roll-out of a global
resilience manual, training package and establishing a Global Resilience
Learning Hub.
· Oversee technical
capacity building of field teams through in-person, site-based trainings and
demonstrations.
· Ensure institutional
knowledge management on resilience, including maintaining and updating Intranet
site and Collaborative Space / SharePoint.
· Collect and disseminate
internal learning on circular practices and regenerative resilience programming
and work with the Go Green global advisor in Asia on strategies for
organizational change in support of nature-positive programming.
About you
To be successful in this role we expect you to have minimum 6
years’ experience in progressively more senior recovery and development
programming roles, including minimum 3 years designing and managing complex
multisector resilience initiatives in conflict-affected locations.
All employees should master DRC’s core competencies:
Communicating, Taking the lead, Collaborating, Striving for excellence and
Demonstrating integrity.
Moreover, we also expect
the following:
Required
· Excellent and up-to-date
knowledge of systems-based approaches and resilience concepts, policy debates
and practical (technical) methods.
· Demonstrated excellence
in implementing circular, regenerative and restorative practices using
participatory methods with vulnerable and displaced communities, working in a
variety of country contexts.
· Demonstrated experience
in applying innovative approaches to climate change adaptation in
conflict-affected contexts.
· Demonstrated knowledge
of conflict analysis, conflict sensitivity and/or conflict resolution techniques.
· Experience working in
complex institutional environments and a strong ability to establish close
collaborative working relationships across dispersed geographical locations.
· Demonstrated experience
in training design and facilitation, on circular practices, regenerative
resilience and/or climate change adaptation.
· Excellent oral and
written communication skills, including writing and facilitation.
· Demonstrated ability to
work independently as part of a small team, and to form close working relationships
with a diverse range of multi-cultural colleagues.
· Highly motivated and
hard-working, with strong attention to detail.
· Strong computer skills
(MS Word, Excel, Outlook and Power Point).
· Able and willing to
travel for up to 45 days per year.
Desirable
· Experience designing and
implementing community disaster risk reduction programming.
· Experience in applying
conflict analysis and conflict sensitivity techniques to programming
· Demonstrated
understanding of peacebuilding and/or community safety programming.
· Experience conducting
technical trainings in regenerative practices and circular economy.
· Experience using Climate
vulnerability assessments in programme design and implementation.
· Experience with
forecast-based and/or climate early warning programming.
We offer
· Contract length: Two
years with possibility of extension, subject to donor funding
· Workplace: DRC Regional
Office East Africa and Great Lakes based in Nairobi, Kenya or DRC Country
Office Kampala, Uganda
· Employment band:
Non-management F; non-accompanied position
· Salary and conditions
for the position will be on DRC terms.
Application process
All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV in
English.
Apply online on our page. Current Vacancies at www.drc.ngo.
Closing date for applications: December 16, 2022.
We expect to conduct interviews early next year
Further information
For questions regarding the vacancy please contact
maria.pade.lange@drc.ngo, Global Lead on addressing root causes of conflict
& displacement.
For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please
consult our website drc.ngo.