Senior Researcher

The incumbent is liable for spearheading the design and implementation of the Jahez challenge, funded by the UK’s International, Commonwealth & Improvement Workplace (FCDO), thought-about a flagship challenge geared toward piloting inclusive and built-in early warning, community-based catastrophe danger administration, and local weather adaptation options which is able to incorporate nature-based options (NbS) to mitigate local weather stress inside each refugee and internet hosting communities.

As a Senior Researcher / Researcher, the function may also entail taking part in designing and delivering high-quality analysis outputs as pertaining to this system. Because the Challenge Chief, the incumbent will likely be anticipated to leverage their appreciable challenge administration and coordination abilities to efficiently work with IWMI workers, consultants, and accomplice organizations, in addition to high-level authorities representatives and technical workers to ship focused assist to the nations taking part on this pilot challenge.

The particular person will likely be liable for exterior illustration and engagement with the donor (FCDO), and different key stakeholders at varied ranges as a vital ingredient of scaling and implementing the options offered by the challenge.

Duties & Tasks:

Because the Challenge Chief:

• Lead the supply of agreed actions on time and according to FCDO’s agreed planning and finances calendar and processes.
• Present strategic management and, along with the challenge workforce, companions, and stakeholders, construct a shared imaginative and prescient for the challenge, its objectives, and the way it will ship influence.
• Oversee the planning and implementation of challenge actions.
• Oversee, handle and assist the work of different challenge workforce members, together with challenge companions and consultants.
• Facilitate the supply of challenge outputs and contribute in direction of outcomes and impacts throughout the challenge.
• Log off on key challenge deliverables and the discharge of funding as permitted within the challenge proposal, work plan, and finances.
• Optimize monetary assets, making selections that maximize worth for cash, influence, and drive efficiencies.
• Be the interior and exterior “face” of the challenge, together with interactions with FCDO, nationwide focal factors, challenge oversight our bodies, in addition to at occasions, challenge administration and stakeholder conferences, and so forth.
• Liaise recurrently with FCDO Challenge Administration Unit for steerage and assist.
• Coordinate to realize synergies with different IWMI tasks within the focal nations of implementation.
• Oversee challenge reporting processes and handle dangers proactively and according to the challenge danger register.
• Guarantee implementation of the challenge’s communication technique and gender motion plan.
• Assist a piece setting that promotes a tradition of collaboration, studying, efficient data sharing, data switch, and interdisciplinary teamwork.

Because the Area Skilled:

• Analyse current vulnerability and catastrophe danger info to determine dangers to meals, land, water methods, and different precedence areas akin to agriculture, livelihoods, and meals safety.
• Collaborate with in-country stakeholders to consolidate info on early warning knowledge, decision-support methods, and precedence dangers.
• Develop catastrophe danger discount methods in partnership with native and nationwide stakeholders, incorporating early warning/early motion (EW/EA) and longer-term adaptation methods.
• Outline and set up early warning triggers with stakeholders, akin to danger degree thresholds for speedy allocation of economic assets to stop and mitigate the influence of forecasted hazards on agriculture and meals safety.
• Formulate disaster timelines, overlaying seasonality and livelihood influence info to determine timings for early warning and anticipatory motion.
• Outline and set up protocols and commonplace working procedures in collaboration with stakeholders for linking early warning to anticipatory motion (early motion in addition to longer-term adaptation), clarifying roles and obligations for danger monitoring and early motion implementation.
• Assist the operational and well timed implementation of anticipatory motion on the nation degree, by conducting discipline missions, advising on acceptable actions, operational preparations, and accessing the Early Motion Fund.
• Strengthen partnerships and inter-agency efforts on regionally pushed catastrophe danger discount (together with EW/EA and local weather adaptation methods) on the nation degree, fostering collaboration on early warning and coordinated anticipatory motion implementation.
• Help in institutionalizing regionally pushed catastrophe danger discount and local weather adaptation methods with key authorities companions.
• Assist capability constructing actions on the nation degree, together with delivering the CGIAR-Anticipatory Motion studying program.
• Signify and advocate for regionally pushed catastrophe danger discount with donors, technical companions, and UN Companies.
• Assist communication efforts by tailor-made merchandise utilizing varied channels akin to the net, photograph/video, social media, press releases, and different means.
• Lead proposal growth and useful resource mobilization in key analysis areas related to the subject material of the put up.

Necessities:

Instructional {Qualifications} & Expertise:

At Senior Researcher degree:

• PhD in water assets administration, local weather, environmental research, economics, city and rural growth or a intently associated discipline coupled with minimal of 10 years of related post-doctoral expertise.

At Researcher degree:

• PhD within the aforementioned fields coupled with a minimal of 05 years of related post-doctoral expertise OR;
• Grasp’s diploma within the aforementioned fields coupled with a minimal of 10 years of related expertise.
• Expertise engaged on analysis and growth and/or public sector-funded tasks that promote, plan, design, and implement water administration and local weather resilience.
• Expertise managing giant multi-partner, advanced growth tasks.
• Expertise in overseeing advanced growth tasks in conflict-prone and socially fragile environments.
• Expertise managing and navigating accomplice and stakeholder relationships with governmental, non-public sector, and neighborhood counterparts at varied ranges of organizational hierarchies (i.e., senior to decrease administration, {and professional} workers), and on the regional, nationwide, and native ranges.
• Confirmed expertise enterprise participatory and/or co-development processes with nationwide and native stakeholders.
• A file of peer-reviewed and/or technical report publications on topics related to local weather finance, nature-based options, coverage, and water administration, with a choice for interdisciplinarity.
• Expertise in enterprise or overseeing hydrological, environmental, and social monitoring and analysis.
• Expertise working in interdisciplinary and multicultural groups.
• Expertise in capacity-building and coaching packages for numerous contributors.
• Confirmed expertise of working with a global group overseas.

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