Resilience Measurement and Research Specialist

Tags: climate change Environment
  • Added Date: Friday, 21 March 2025
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Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action - helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future.

PROGRAM/ DEPARTMENT SUMMARY

Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty, oppression by building secure, productive, and just communities. Mercy Corps has been present in Zimbabwe since 2002 focusing its interventions on a multi sectoral market systems development portfolio mobilizing communities to promote small-scale agriculture and revive local economies. Its current operations focus on helping smallholder farmers increase their incomes and harvests through the power of technology and increasing urban household access to quality, reliable water, sanitation and hygiene services. Zimbabwe continues to experience recurrent environmental, economic and social shocks affecting the wellbeing of its communities and undermining development investments. Mercy Corps puts resilience at core of its strategy to contribute to the wellbeing of Zimbabweans by building communitiesโ€™ capacities and strengthening systems and institutions.

GENERAL POSITION SUMMARY

The Resilience Measurement and Research Specialist for the Resilience Knowledge Hub (RKH) under the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund (ZRBF) will be responsible for providing key technical advisory services to RKH for resilience measurement and research. The Resilience Knowledge Hubโ€™s goal is to strengthen the capacity of ZRBF partners (i.e. government and ZRBF ) in understanding and applying resilience and landscape concepts, tools, approaches and methodologies in their work to drive the resilience agenda as outlined in the Zimbabwe Resilience Strategic Framework. The intervention will also play an advisory role in supporting ZRBF consortia partners to conduct context, gender and resilience analyses and reporting; improve scenario planning, early warning systems and anticipatory action mechanism to inform ZRBFplanning and implementation processes. By doing so the intervention will inform decisions on the Crisis Modifier funding system to strategically sequence, layer, and coordinate ZRBF investments and adapt them to the rapidly changing environment. For the system to function, RKH must serve as a catalyst for generating evidence through strategic resilience measurement and translating it into actionable programme recommendations.

The Resilience Measurement & Research Specialist is integral to achieving the objectives outlined above. Specifically, this individual will be responsible for designing, managing, and supervising RKHโ€™s resilience measurement methodology and system, research protocols, evidence generation and all analytical work.facilitating the aggregation of knowledge, experiences, and best practices from the ZRBF consortia partnersand ensuring the efficient and effective transfer and application of these lessons across consortia in their implementation plans and crisis modifier mechanisms.

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

RESILIENCE MEASUREMENT

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