Early Warning Coordinator

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Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

An Early Warning Capacity Building Coordinator coordinates all activities related to building the capacity of Ethiopian Disaster Risk Management in the area of early warning system strengthening, development and other related anticipatory action activities. The incumbent will work with EDRMC to strengthen the Early Warning System (EWS) at both federal and regional levels by providing support in data modernization, institutional coordination, community-based planning, and pre-arranged financing for

early action. He/she will work with the institution to upgrade data collection and forecasting tools for multi-hazard monitoring (such as floods, droughts, and locust outbreaks) in partnership with technical agencies like the Ethiopian Meteorological Institute and Ministry of Water and Energy and will help the development and maintenance of a unified national disaster and early warning database system to improve information sharing between federal, regional, and local tiers.

- Assist EDRMC in managing disaster risk information systems and leads training for government partners.
- Organizing training and workshops in analyzing risk data; building stakeholder networks; organize and run capacity-building sessions for EDRMC and other government partners in early warning system strengthening and anticipatory action.
- Support EDRMC in the process of collecting and reviewing food security, climate related or conflict early warning data to track emerging risks.
- Coordinates and builds partnership relationships of WVE with EDRMC and other partners working with EDRMC to strengthen EW information generation, analysis and management.
- Supports EDRMC and other partners in hazard monitoring systems, analysing risk data, and works to bridge the gap between forecasting and early action.
- Supports EDRMC at the federal, regional and local levels in rolling out Multi Hazard Impact based EW and EA Road map; common framework for Drought Anticipatory Action and other related frameworks.
- Works around stakeholder collaboration, and capacity building in EW and works to support government disaster agencies, local communities, and technical working groups in early warning information generation, analysis and sharing.
- Supports EDRMC in developing/reviewing anticipatory action triggers, thresholds and standard operating procedures (SoPs), and supports the process of rolling out and actual implementations and also the process of developing guidance notes for early and anticipatory actions.
- Organizes training and capacity building sessions for federal, regional and local EW staff and community members on EW and disaster risk reduction and monitoring tools.
- Conducts rapid capacity need assessments, develops capacity building plan and implements based on approved budget; provides capacity building support to government EDRMC and EW staff at the federal, regional and local levels to improve effectiveness of the early warning system, early action and anticipatory action based on government’s DM guidelines and policies.
- Prepares annual plan of activities with budget requirement in consultation with EDRMC implements after approval of the plan by concerned authorities at WVIE and also EDRMC.
- Participate in multi-agency/multi sectoral all types of EW and anticipatory action related assessment, studies, and shares the findings with EDRMC and WVIE.
- Coordinates quarterly, mid term and final review meetings with regard to the WVE supports to EDRMC, compiles the information and shares with both EDRMC and WVIE concerned staff.
- Supports the process of establishing and maintaining early warning structures by working with concerned government authorities.
- Provides technical backup and support to Early warning Officers at woreda, zone and region levels; documents all early warning system activities at different levels, documents and shares lessons learned.
- Any additional assignment given from immediate supervisor.

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS :

- Master’s degree in Disaster Risk Management, Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Science, Environmental Science, Geography, Development Studies, Food Security, Agricultural Economics, Natural Resource Management, Meteorology, Information Management, or a closely related field. A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with substantial additional experience may also be considered.

EXPERIENCE/BACKGROUND

- Minimum of five years of relevant professional experience in disaster risk management, early-warning systems, anticipatory action, climate-risk analysis, food-security monitoring, emergency preparedness, or related humanitarian and development programming.
- Demonstrated experience working with government disaster-management institutions—preferably EDRMC and regional or local structures—as well as UN agencies, NGOs, technical working groups and other development or humanitarian partners.
- Practical experience in collecting, managing and analysing food-security, climate, hazard, vulnerability or conflict related early-warning data. Experience developing or operationalizing triggers, thresholds, standard operating procedures, early-action protocols and multi-hazard impact-based early-warning systems is required.

Required:

- Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
- Working knowledge of Amharic and/or other Ethiopian languages relevant to target regions is an advantage.
- Based in Addis Ababa with travel to field locations across Amhara, Tigray, Afar, Oromia, Somali, and contested/access-constrained areas, subject to security clearance.
- Field conditions may include insecurity, long road travel, limited infrastructure, restricted communications, disease outbreak environments, and emergency response pressure.
- Extended working hours may be required during emergencies, reporting deadlines, audits, distributions, field missions, or critical incident response.

Desirable:

- To succeed and grow, we must be safe and resilient, protecting ourselves and adapting to challenges; build strong relationships through trust and respect;
- learn and develop continuously to enhance our skills; partner and collaborate with others to achieve shared goals;
- deliver results with excellence and consistency; be accountable for our actions and responsibilities; improve and innovate by seeking better ways of working; and embrace change with a positive and flexible mindset.

Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only