DRM Capacity and Community Resilience Lead

About Palladium:

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.  

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This Opportunity:

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) plans to establish a five-year project to support the develop the country’s capacity to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural and human-caused disasters. The activity support capacity building across various stakeholders in Armenia's disaster response system, as well as to reduce Armenia's vulnerability to disasters through mitigation efforts, thereby improving the economic, social, health, and environmental resilience to shocks and stress. The activity may also design disaster response and recovery interventions.

The DRM Capacity and Community Resilience Lead will be responsible for overseeing capacity building support to the Government of Armenia (GoA) and working with communities through civil society organizations (CSOs) to strengthen Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) platforms

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Develop and oversee DRR platform capacity strengthening activities.
Oversee and manage the provincial advisers and provide technical and management support.
Provide strategic support to GoA, local partners and communities.
Deliver technical assistance that will include national LTAs and STAs to support GoA capacity development.
Implement situational analysis assessments and consultations with GoA and relevant stakeholders.
Provide technical support to GoA by recruiting technical advisors at the provincial, and if required, district level.
Liaise and work with media, universities, think tanks and research institutions to support program implementation.
Assist the development of locally owned response frameworks and identify capacity building priorities.
Oversee the coordination and engagement with local partners in key localities ensuring improved access to information, tools and practices to women, men, children and people with disabilities to enable them to better prevent and respond to disasters.
Working with the Institutional Systems Strengthening Lead, strengthen feedback between national and sub-national levels on learnings related to DRM and disaster response facilitated to inform on GoA planning and institutional strengthening processes.

Key Competencies Required:

At least five (5) years with an advanced degree or seven (7) years with a bachelors degree, of relevant program management experience with a donor, contractor or national or international NGO supporting government capacity building, stakeholder engagement and/or community building.
A minimum of two (2) years supervisory experience, working with a culturally and socially diverse team. 
Experience developing organizational capacity and strengthening activities.
Demonstrated ability to work with CSO and community partners.
Extensive experience supporting and implementing community resilience interventions.
Experience in hiring and supervising personnel and providing appropriate capacity building and training support.
Excellent presentation, communication, and analytical skills.
Strong leadership and management skills.
Proven ability to develop and maintain professional, cross-sectoral networks.
Team management experience, including overseeing the management of a dispersed team.
Experience working with vulnerable and at-risk groups.
Experience managing programs in Armenia, Eurasia or the Caucasus or similar natural disaster-prone contexts.
Ability to work under pressure responding to evolving program goals and objectives.
Professional proficiency in written and oral English and Armenian. Russian comprehension preferred.

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