Anticipation Over Reaction (AoR) Project Officer

Main Role

The DRR AoR Project Officer will plan, coordinate and oversee the implementation of the anticipation over reaction Project. Moreover, s/he is also will also be in charge of ensuring relevant monitoring and reporting during the lifetime of the project.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring proper planning of anticipation and forecast based finance(FbF) related activities in coordination with relevant team members.
• Oversee the implementation of relevant activities.
• Responsible for developing, collecting, reviewing and archiving reports and activities outputs.
• Develop interim and final narrative reports to donors in accordance with relevant templates, requirements and deadlines.
• Coordinate and follow-up with internal and external stakeholders for activities execution (i.e. feasibility study, risk assessment…).
• Liaise and cooperate with expert organisations on climate related aspects (such as Red Cross Climate Centre).
• Support and guide the process of the development and testing of one EAP (early action protocols for a specific climate related hazard), particularly by identifying relevant effective early actions and establishing procedures that allow their timely implementation once a forecast threshold has been reached. 
• Plan and coordinate various internal and external meetings and capacity building activities.
• Ensure collecting the lessons learnt and the best practices from the field and sharing them with the PMER team.

Function Specific Experience

Previous experience in similar positions

Experience in DRR and knowledge in anticipation, FbF and climate change adaptation.