Disaster Risk Management Officer
Job Vacancy | Friday, April 4, 2025
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- Reference Number 250297 Position Level TL5 Department Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department Division Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster Location Armenia Resident Mission Date Posted Friday, April 4, 2025 Closing Date Tuesday, April 22, 2025 11:59 p.m. (2359 Manila Time, 0800 GMT)
Join Our Mission to Foster Prosperity in Asia
Are you ready to make a lasting impact on the future of Asia and be a catalyst for positive change? We are thrilled to offer a unique opportunity to become an important part of the prestigious Asian Development Bank (ADB). At ADB, our mission is simple yet powerful: to alleviate poverty and promote sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region.Organizational Setting and Reporting Relationship
While the position of Disaster Risk Management Officer resides with the Disaster Risk Management unit within the Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department (CCSD), you will be strategically assigned to Yerevan within the Central West Regional Department (CWRD) based at our Armenia Resident Mission. CCSD is responsible for leading thematic operations, knowledge innovation, and partnerships.
You will report to the Director, Disaster Risk Management under the direct supervision of the Deputy Country Director, Resident Mission and will work closely with relevant colleagues in the Resident Mission and will oversee Administrative Staff (AS).
Your Role
As a Disaster Risk Management Officer, you will provide in-depth technical support to the development, implementation and coordination of ADBโs Disaster Risk Management (DRM) agenda. The staff will work closely with other members of ADBโs DRM team to support country teams with upstream analysis, Country and Regional Partnership Strategy development, technical assistance and investment programming, act as a member of ONE ADB team to maximize disaster risk management outcomes in sector investments, and monitoring progress of ongoing thematic and sector work related to disaster resilience. The Disaster Risk Management Officer will also support the design, development, processing, implementation, and evaluation of technical assistance projects related to disaster risk management.
You will:
A. Country programming
- Support the Armenia resident mission to integrate disaster risk management considerations into the development of the country partnership strategy and annual country programming missions and maintain an overview of country level disaster risk management operations.
B. Technical and strategic advisory services on Disaster Risk Management
Contribute to upstream engagement on disaster risk management (including policy and sector issues, best practices), data collection, and analyses to support project development, policy and sector work; Conduct disaster risk management related analysis, produce knowledge products and briefing notes; and monitor, compile, and update policy and sector initiatives, activities, products, and tools at the national and sub-national level including projects, programs, roadmaps, guidelines, standards, case studies, and other activities and materials that can provide direction in furthering ADB's disaster risk management engagement Work with sector and disaster risk management team members to provide technical inputs in the design, development, processing, implementation, and evaluation of ADB investments and technical assistance on or relevant to disaster risk management including consultant selection and recruitment and review of consultants' outputs. Work with the disaster risk management team and project teams to advise on, support and review disaster related assessments, requirements and documentations such as upstream risk assessments, disaster risk financing analysis etc. Support countries to strengthen the enabling environment to mobilize, effectively allocate and manage resources for disaster preparedness and disaster risk reduction.
C. Operational Support
Lead the coordination and preparation of DRM inputs to CWRD, Sectors Group, and CCSD Management Information System, work plans, quarterly accomplishment reports, write ups on the three-year rolling work program, and ADB annual report. Oversee the performance of assigned administrative staff, providing clear direction and regular monitoring and feedback on performance.
D. Information and Dissemination
Provide technical inputs in the preparation and dissemination of knowledge and communication products and events on Disaster Risk Management including speeches, conferences, national and international fora as requested
F. Mobilizing and Managing DRM finance
Support the resident mission to access resources for DRM (both emergency funds such as through the APDRF, technical assistance and other relevant resources) Contribute to efforts to mobilize external resources for DRM
G. Knowledge Generation and Sharing
Conduct DRM awareness raising and capacity strengthening activities for staff, executing agencies of developing member countries, and other concerned parties as relevant. Actively participate in national DRM networks and inter-agency relations and contribute to ADBโs knowledge sharing efforts
g. H. Other tasks
Lead, coordinate support and/or handle ad hoc assignments as assigned. This may involve occasional support to other resident missions in CWRD.
Qualifications
You will need:
Benefits
ADB offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package. The salary will be based on ADBโs standards and comparator markets, taking into account your qualifications and experience.
ยท Paid leave (including parental)
ยท Medical and health benefits
ยท Life and other insurance plans
ยท Staff development
ยท Retirement plan
ยท Housing and education allowance (if applicable)
ยท Expatriate benefits (for international staff)
Additional Information
This opening is a local staff position. It is open only to nationals and residents of Armenia.
This is a fixed term appointment with option to renew for an initial period of 3 years following Section 3.1 (b) of Administrative Order No. 2.01 (โRecruitment and Appointmentโ). This appointment is not convertible to a regular appointment. At the end of the initial period, this appointment may be renewed for a period of up to three years, or not renewed. There is no limit on the number of renewals. This appointment is open to internal and external applicants.
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