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VACANCY: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION COORDINATOR (23790-CPRU) (FOR INDONESIAN NATIONALITY ONLY) PDF Print E-mail
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Opening Date: 17-Jun-2011 | Due Date: 26-Jun-2011
 
Please apply online through the following link:
http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=23790
 
Post                               : DRR Coordinator (For Indonesian Nationality
only)
Type of contract               : Service Contract
Post level                        : SC 9
Duration of initial contract  : 6 months with possible extension
 
Organizational Context
One of Hyogo Framework for Action’s Priorities for Action is to “Ensure that
disaster risk reduction is a national and local priority with a strong
institutional basis for implementation.” The HFA encourages all nations to
support the establishment of integrated DRR mechanisms, including through the
set-up of national disaster management bodies at the national and regional
levels to ensure effective disaster risk reduction. As part of the efforts to
build a strong institutional basis for DRR, the government of Indonesia has
established its National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) in 2008.
 
BNPB has carried out several initiatives within its mandates including
formulation of regulations, policies, procedures and implementation of programs
related to disaster management.. To  carry out its key duties and
responsibilities, BNPB has been receiving supports from its partners including
the international development partners. To coordinate supports lent by the
international agencies for enhancing its DRR initiatives, BNPB requires  a
coordinator for supporting the management of BNPB incoordinating the substantive
and technical support and assistance of  the international cooperation partners
and ensure that the support and assistance provided will be aligned and
contributive to the overall goals and objectives of the agency. UNDP, in  view
of its neutrality and impartiality and its well-established collaboration with
BNPB recently through SCDRR., is specifically requested to provide and recruit
the post to  to perform such a coordination role in BNPB.

 
The key responsibilities of the Coordinator for DRR will be to coordinate
supports provided by different international organizations and maintain the
quality of such assistance in line with BNPB’s strategic and annual development
plans. Within the overall framework of existing UNDP projects in BNPB through
SCDRR, the Coordinator for DRR will work under the direct supervision of the
Deputy for Prevention and Preparedness in BNPB and the CPRU Head as delegated to
the DRR Programme Manager of CPRU.

 
Functions / Key Results Expected
Summary of Key Functions:
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Final Evaluation Consultants - Merapi Early Recovery Program PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 16 June 2011
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Save the Children intends to
conduct a competitive bidding exercise for the provision of Consulting Services
for Final Evaluation of Merapi Early Recovery Program (M.E.R.P) at Magelang,
Central Java.
 
Here attached is Terms of Reference
for further understanding of background, objectives, scope of evaluation,
methodology, time frame, deliverables, and
applications.
 
 
Attn: Tender Committee for PR No.
0183/DRR/JKT/VI/11
 
Deadline of submission: 22 June
2011 before 5 P.M Jakarta Time.
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Senior Linking and Learning Officer For Partners in Resilience Project PDF Print E-mail
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Job description

Date: 1st of Juli 2011
Position: Senior Linking & Learning Officer PfR
Project Title: Climate-proof Disaster Risk Reduction, PfR
Status: Starting up
Organisation: The Netherlands Red Cross (NLRC) on behalf of PfR

Location/ Country of assignment:Kupang, NTT
Time period: 3 months, than 12 months, possibility for extension

Context

The Partners for Resilience (PfR) is an alliance of five humanitarian, development and environmental organizations bringing together knowledge and expertise in the field of disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation (CCA) and ecosystem management and restoration (EMR). The PfR consist of the NLRC, CARE Nederland, Cordaid, Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre and Wetlands International. The alliance partners accompany their local partner institutions in the implementation of the programme.

Founded in 2009, the PfR developed the five year programme "Climate-proof Disaster Risk Reduction" that aims to reduce the impact of natural hazards on the livelihoods of 750.000 – 1.000.000 vulnerable people in nine countries: Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mali, Nicaragua, Philippines, and Uganda. The PfR will implement the programme in the period 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2015. The NLRC is lead applicant and contract-holder for the programme vis-à-vis its key donor, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs under its MFS-II grant facility.

The Partners for Resilience in Indonesia are now looking for a:

Senior Linking & Learning Officer (100%)

Purpose of the position

An important component of the programme is the PfR overall Learning Agenda and the specific learning objectives as have been formulated by the Programme Guidance Committee. The alliance partners, all with different backgrounds, can mutually reinforce each other's activities. Furthermore they will involve other relevant stakeholders at different levels.
The overall learning goal is to develop an integrated DRR/CCA/EMR approach to be applied at both community and institutional level.
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Consultancy - Oxfam GB Indonesia : Community & District Risk Monitoring & Evaluation PDF Print E-mail
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Consultant : Community and District Risk
Monitoring and Evaluation

 
Type: National
Consultant
Location: Indonesia
Closing Date: 15 June 2011
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BACKGROUND
AND RATIONALE
 
SinceJune 2009, the project of District Building Resilience has been operated
in 128 villages within 16 districts that put the focus
on reducing disaster risks at both community level and district level. Currently the project has come to its end of program implementation. For about two years of operation, many investments have
been made to reduce disaster risks
in the whole project areas through partnerships with 11 partners. Oxfam
has initiated to carry out activities such as risk
assessments, formulation of action plans in districts/communities, and
the implementation of district action plan. Up to now, 115 villages in 16 districts have completed risk assessments and formulated village action
plans. At district Level, 4 districts have completed
the risk assessment district and other 12 districts are still in the process
of finalization.
 
The whole investments of reducingdisaster risks have become important to be periodically reviewed
to measure how best the impact of the intervention, and to identify whether disaster risks is decreased or increased within the regions. This is important as a foundation to always update
the risk assessment in each region. Measurement will be done with Community and District Risk Monitoring and Evaluation.
 
 
CONSULTANT
EXPECTED TASKS
 
Consultant is expected to:
* Design comprehensive methodology for community and district risk
monitoring
* Develop instruments for community and district risk monitoring
* Create facilitator guidelines to implement community and district risk
monitoring
* Carry out desk research
* Test field instruments
* Conduct TOT workshop to apply the instruments for community and
districts representative.
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Vacancy TDMRC - Unsyiah PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 31 May 2011
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Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Center (TDMRC) – Syiah Kuala University
under DRR-A project is seeking your talented professionals to fill in the
positions below to be based in Banda Aceh:

Structural Engineering

Qualification:

- Minimum Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering with Structural engineering
background

- Minimum 1 year of experience in assessing structural failure due to any
disaster occurrence

- Working knowledge on software such as SAP, Autocad, ArcGIS, or related
software for construction engineering
- Has a good communication and interpersonal skill, team oriented, and able to
work in tight deadline
- Able to work within groups
- Willing to work overtime as needed or asked by Applied Research Division
- Highly committed to support all TDMRC programs to reach its long term goals
- Must be stay in Banda Aceh

Responsibilities:

- Assist DRRM (Disaster Risk Reduction Map) to analyze Aceh disaster risk
mapping project
- Prepare and to setup data related to infrastructure mapping
- Prepare all data related to the infrastructure in Aceh
- Assist compiling all data related to the infrastructure at hazard prone area
in Aceh
- Assist in analyzing disaster damages and losses due to earthquake, landslide,
and volcano disaster
- Prepare monthly report to Head of Applied Research Division of TDMRC
- Assist Head of Applied Research Division in gathering information related to
disasters
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