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COOPERATION
PROGRAM BETWEEN DISTRICT
GOVERNMENT CHITRAL AND BARCELONA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ON
DISASTER RISK GOVERNANCE IN CHITRAL-KP PAKISTAN
New opening for Disaster Risk Governance Project in Chitral
INTRODUCTION:
District Government Chitral under the dynamic leadership of District Nazim Chitral in
collaboration of Barcelona Provincial Council is implementing a pilot project on Disaster
Risk Governance in Chitral, initially for one year till 31 December 2017, extendable on an
ex-officio basis or after written and supported request from JAD Foundation, by means of a
resolution of Barcelona Provincial Council.
Local Government Chitral and regional government Barcelona call for a collective action
framework to localize SFDRR-2030, SDGs-2030, and climate finance at COP 22 through this
pilot project.
JAD Foundation, a dynamic humanitarian, development, and research oriented
organization is facilitating both the governments to implement this pilot project in District
Chitral Pakistan to work locally to contribute towards interdependent, interlinked and
interconnected challenges that are transnational in nature and trans-institutional in
solution at local to global level.
JAD Foundation is committed to supplement efforts of the governments, organizations, and
the community to tackle natural, human, and technological disaster and climate risks at
multiple levels by harnessing human potentials and strengthening the district level
disaster management system through local government structure. Through its work, the
foundation aims to contribute to KP Provincial government Road Map for Disaster Risk
Management 2014 2022, national disaster management policies and the four major
global frameworks
i)Sendai Framework of Disaster Risk Reduction, ii) Sustainable
Development Goals, iii) Paris Conference Commitment on Climate Change, and iv) Global
Humanitarian Summit 2015.
The project will specifically focus on the two essential out of four priority areas of SFDRR
20152030,
i) Understanding disaster risk, ii) Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage
disaster risk.
The JAD Foundation Chitral is regarded by both the government of Chitral District and
Barcelona Provincial Council as an organization suited to managing and executing the Pilot
Project on Disaster Risk Governance (DRG) in three areas: (i) disaster preparedness and
response, (ii) disaster risk governance, (iii) youth development/leadership, initially for one
year till 31 December 2017, extendable on an ex-officio basis or after written and
supported request from JAD Foundation, by means of a resolution of Barcelona Provincial
Council.
In the current project, the following vacancies are open for prospective, dynamic,
innovative and energetic professionals who are interested in career building in multidynamic local/global teams of multi-sectoral and multidisciplinary experts and
organizations.
Info@jadoundation.org or info.jadfoundation@gmail.com
Application can be submitted with PRO District Nazim Chital at the office of
District Nazim Chitral
DDMO at DC Office Chitral.
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JAD Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and particularly encourage
applications from female candidates.
Your application should accompany the following:
1. A short covering letter (with maximum 1000 words) stating the position that you
want to be considered for and describe how your qualifications, experience, and
competencies are relevant to the position;
1. A detailed and updated curriculum vitae;
2. Expected Salary
3. Should
you
be
shortlisted based on your well
written cover letter and CV specific to job description, you will be
required to appear for written test and interview, no TA/DA will be admissible.
Closing Date: 10 January 2016:
If you are result oriented, you have a passion for youth leadership development, local
government system strengthening and transformation of peace/development of
Chitral/Pakistan, and possess the competencies to meet the new challenges, submit your
application now!!!
Only applicants who meet the requirements of the JAD Foundation and are being
considered for shortlisting followed by written test and interview will be contacted. Should
you not hear from JAD Foundation within four weeks after closing date, kindly consider
your application unsuccessful.
Current Project vacancies.
Project Coordinator
Program Officer
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Admin and Finance Officer
Training and Youth Development Officers (m/f )
JOB Description:
1 Program Coordinator
The role of position in the organization:
The Project Coordinator is responsible for overall management, operation, and
performance of the project.
He/she will be responsible for coordinating all the three areas of project activities for
integrated outcome and achievement of the result of the project.
He/she responsible for capacity building of the staff and partner organizations on
local government system on disaster risk governance, climate change adaptation,
youth development and leadership and effective functioning in service delivery to
the public with specific consideration of risk reduction of multi-sectoral development
strategy.
He/she will be responsible for overseeing human resources, procurement,
recruitments to ensure the maximum outcome of the project and that JAD values
have not been compromised.
Project coordinator shall directly report to the project director.
Key working relationships:
Internal: PD, tripartite agreement partners. Project staff.
External: Partners, donors, district provincial and federal
consultants, auditors, sector stakeholders and other NGOs.
Job Purpose
government
agencies,
The Project Coordinator will lead the overall project implementation process
under the guidance and supervision of PD and shall ensure that project objectives are
achieved efficiently and effectively within committed resources and timelines. PC shall
supervise the project team, and support the work of the staff and local partners in
promoting as well as implementing, monitoring and evaluating the cooperation program,
policy and DRR agenda.
The overarching strategic objective of the work of the Project Coordinator is to keep the
track of the things, work plan, budgets and deliverables and keep the PD informed on
progress and issues as well as provide advice and consultation to resolve issue and
bottlenecks.
Key Responsibilities:
Identify,
direct,
coordinate, commission and/or
undertake thematic
research studies and learning
materials.
Design and lead strategic capacity support to partners/stakeholders in mutually
identified areas
Represent cooperation program and its partners work at meetings and forums incountry and internationally to continuously strengthen its strategic positioning and
extension in future.
Facilitate and contribute to key organizational processes and in development of
documents such as program strategy, multi-year planning, and budgeting (MPB),
and in producing high-quality training materials and progress reporting
Facilitate and monitor all budgetary and financial matters, social mobilization
events, procurement of goods and services in line with organizational policies and
project provisions. He/she will be responsible for coordination with District/Tehsil
Nazims and village/neighborhood councils for youth and women leadership
development, capacity building and formation/functioning of youth councils at
VYC/TYC and DYC.
He/she will be responsible for overseeing the website development, updates, and
reporting the entire events on behalf of the project.
He/she will be responsible for external and internal communication with partners,
donors, government organizations as per the communication policy of JAD
Foundation in respect of the project
He/she will responsible for facilitating and coordinating with DDMU, the core team of
DDMU, the focal persons, emergency responders and ensure that all scheduled
meetings are held on time and action plan developed and action taken.
Conveying monthly, quarterly meeting, half and yearly meeting of concern
authorities, developing agenda and minutes of the meetings and monitoring that
action taken on the action plans.
He/she will be responsible for overseeing the performance of the project staff who
are directly or indirectly reporting to the project coordinator.
He/she will be responsible for ensuring that the project will adhere all International
humanitarian and human rights principles and standards in pre-during and post
disasters sphere.
He/she will be responsible for strategic work planning and field activities, M&E,
progress and budget as well as reporting.
The responsibilities of the PC is beyond the ToRs mentioned above while performing and
delivery of public services to the organizations and the community during the project life
Reporting line: Directly reporting to the Project Director.
Person Specification
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge
Postgraduate
/
Masters degree in development
studies, social sciences, disaster management,
and public policy project management or
development economics from a reputed
university.
Ability to lead and direct projects of
multilateral
agencies,
government
and
international donors, conduct program and
policy
analysis,
undertake
cutting-edge
research and advocacy as well as managing
advocacy
and
capacity
development
campaigns at senior management and
leadership positions would be preferred.
Human resource management and staff
development techniques.
Experience
Demonstrated
knowledge in
DRR/DRM and CCA sector issues,
advocacy networks and social
movements in Pakistan.
Staff
management
and
development.
Performance evaluation of human
resources and program outcome.
Strong report writing skills and
competencies
Excellent working knowledge of the
KPK especially Chitral
Knowledge of prevalent KPK local
government system and rules of
business of different tiers of local
government
system
in
KPK.
Pakistan.
He/she shall provide technical assistance in field management and act as the first
point of contact for all program related information, progress tracking, knowledge
management, proposal development, fundraising, developing an exit strategy,
sustainability of the projects and d partners relationship primarily at district and
community level.
coordinator.
Represent
cooperation program and its
partners work at
meetings and forums at district
and community.
Coordinating and facilitating skills/capacity building training of District Disaster
Response Team( DDRT)
Deployments and facilitation of DDRT, coordination with DDMU and line department,
NGOs and local govt organizations, emergency responders and the community both
in peace and emergencies.
Responsible for developing training contents and manuals for the purpose of
peacebuilding training, ensuring standards and quality of effective delivery of
capacity building training.
Responsible for ensuring accountability, transparency in technical competency and
financial accuracy with the conformity of the core values of JAD Foundation.
To promote and facilitate a rights-based approach to disaster relief, the Interagency
Standing Committees (IASC) adopted Operational Guidelines on Protecting Persons
in Natural Disasters in all sphere of the disaster cycle.
Take on any other tasks as when and where required.
Person Specification
Essential
Knowledge
Postgraduate/Masters degree in development studies,
social sciences, disaster management, and business
management or MIS from a reputed university.
High-quality computer/MIS knowledge and skills.
Disaster Risk Management competencies and multistakeholder coordination skills
Project Proposal and funding rising skills.
Experience
Minimum 5 years in social mobilization, program
coordination, content development and training delivery on
DRR/CCA and integrated response mechanism.
Lead and coordinate Search and Rescue Team and
coordinate with DDMU both in peace and emergencies.
Experiences of project proposal writing and fundraising.
Skills:
Desirable
Demonstrated
knowledge
in
socioeconomic
and
political
narratives
and
development
challenges,
strong
advocacy
networks
and local government
system
in
KP
specifically.
Excellent
working
knowledge of
the
DRR/DRM and project
management
softwares,
data
management
and
web/ social media
handling
PowerPoint pentation,
public speaking skills,
and public relation
are some of the
desirable skills.
Others
Knowledge of the political and governmental
structure and policy making the process at district level
would be preferred.
Knowledge on cross-linkages of DRR/DRM with other
sectors of social development would also be preferred
areas of knowledge.
High quality was written/verbal communication skills
including well-demonstrated lobbying and advocacy ability
Self-motivated person able to work independently and able
to effetely promote JAD Foundations mission, values and
objectives.
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Key Responsibilities:
He/she will be the frontline driver in shaping, recording and documenting the
success.
Design and develop project M&E frameworks and tools.
Proactively analyze and review progress in line with the work plan, prepare activity
progress reports, collect, analyze and manage data and communications.
Facilitate, manage and update project and institutional databases, MIS, web portals,
social media in consultation with the project team and senior management.
Facilitate the process of identification, analysis and documentation of achievements,
impact, and success as well as lessons learned.
Develop and maintain outlook reports and keep the senior management informed of
any deviations and bottlenecks of progress.
Keep him/herself aware of the local agenda and work of other sector partners in
order to implement more effectively, as well as inclusively, the disaster governance
policy influencing agenda
Play proactive and instrumental role to successfully achieve the cooperation
program objectives.
Facilitate and/or undertake thematic research studies and development of learning
materials.
Design develop and maintain overall project MIS, databases, and profiling of
partners and beneficiaries,
Represent cooperation program and its partners work at meetings and forums at
district community and national level.
Take on any other tasks as when and where required. Organize and conduct training on
M&E/MIS for project and government staff
Assist Project Manager in the preparation of reports on the findings and lessons learned
from project innovations;
Provide input and update information related to project outcome in UNDP and GOB
website;
Assist Project Manager in preparing monthly and quarterly reports on project progress
based on MIS reports on project activities;
Prepare Issues Log and Risk Log for the project;
Develop M&E system for the Project and for the government counterpart/stakeholders;
Prepare and maintain data base
Person Specification
Essential
Knowledge
Postgraduate
/
Masters
degree
in
development
studies,
social
sciences,
disaster
management,
and
business
management or MIS from a reputed
university.
High-quality
computer-PMIS-Data
management knowledge and skills.
Desirable
Demonstrated knowledge in
DRR/DRM sector issues, advocacy
networks, and social movements in
Pakistan and in specifically in
Chitral.
Experience
Minimum 3-5 years
reflective practices of in M&E
working with donor funded projects, especially
EU/USAID etc and MIS in development projects
implemented by national/international NGOs/UN
bodies/ Government;
Experience in designing tools and strategies for
data collection, analysis and production of
reports;
Proven ICT skills, especially in the development of
MIS software using database software;
Expertise in analysing data using statistical
software;
Strong training & facilitation skills.
Language Requirements: Fluency in written and
spoken in
Others
Knowledge of the political and governmental structure and policy making the
process at district level would be preferred.
Knowledge on cross-linkages of DRR/DRM with other sectors of social
development would also be preferred areas of knowledge.
High quality is written/verbal communication skills including well-demonstrated
computer software and data management skills.
Self-motivated person able to work independently
Able to effectively promote JAD foundations mission values and objectives
4 Admin and Finance Officer
The role of position in the organization:
The Admin and Finance Officer is responsible for providing administrative, logistic and
financial management services to effective and efficient delivery and achievement of
project objectives
Reporting line:
Project director and coordinate with Project Coordinator as and when required
Key working relationships:
Internal: PD, tripartite agreement partners, key project staff.
External: District administration, provincial government agencies, communities, youth
and women activists and volunteers, elected representatives of local government, sector
stakeholders and other NGOs operational in Chitral.
Job Purpose
Person Specification
Essential
Knowledge
Postgraduate/ Masters degree in business
management/M Com/ACCA
High-quality computer IT knowledge and skills.
Recruitment,
procurement,
HRM,
and
negotiation skills
Experience
Minimum
years
in
administration
and
Desirable
Demonstrated knowledge of
latest project administration and
financial management tools and
systems
and
finance
and
administration
in
local
government
Excellent working knowledge of
the computer applications in
financial
accounting and
management
recruitment, procurement, and management
human resource development experiences
with NGOs/donor-funded projects.
Others
Knowledge of the donor funded projects and grant management.
Knowledge of the personnel management, procurement management,
bookkeeping and audit facilitation.
High quality was written/verbal communication skills including well-demonstrated
financial analysis and reporting
Self-motivated person able to work independently
Able to effectively promoted foundations mission values and objectives
5 & 6.
female)
Two training and youth development Officers (one male and one
Key Responsibilities:
He/she will be the
frontline driver of the field
implementation of training initiatives of the cooperation program and
will be required to provide quality input in designing training curriculum and
manuals.
Plan, organize, facilitate and manage field training activities and need assessments
for DRR/DRM of local government leaders, CSOs, ERTs, DDMUs, youth, community,
and volunteers.
Proactively analyze and review training outputs/impact in line with project results
and objectives.
Develop, manage, and update training records/reports learning outcomes and
achievement of deliverables etc.
Facilitate the process of development and documentation of capacity enhancement,
ToRs, bylaws, IEC materials, profiles for youth councils, forums, and committees
Develop working relationships with government agencies, volunteers, ERTs and
CSOs of the areas and conduct regular follow-ups of training participants and skill
changes.
Keep him/herself aware of the local agenda and work of other sector partners in
order to implement more effectively, as well as inclusively, the disaster governance
policy influencing agenda through training and capacity development activities.
Play proactive and instrumental role to successfully achieve the cooperation
program objectives.
Facilitate and/or undertake thematic research studies and development of learning
materials.
Facilitate capacity support to partners/stakeholders in mutually identified areas and
agreed to timelines.
Represent cooperation program and its partners work at meetings and forums at
district and community.
Take on any other tasks as when and where required.
Person Specification
Essential
Knowledge
Masters degree or Graduate with 5 years
experience with NGOs/INGOs Government
and corporate sector with the strong public
relationship, well aware about the youth
challenges and development aspect.
Well aware about the local govt system and
functioning.
Knowledge of conducting training and
managing participants, developing curriculum
in
disaster
risk
management/local
government management.
Information and communication technological
orientation and understanding/competences.
Desirable
Demonstrated knowledge in
DRR/DRM
sector
issues,
advocacy
networks,
and
social
movements
in
Pakistan and specifically in
KPK and Chitral.
Understanding
of
local
government system
Well aware of the office
management,
recordkeeping,
administration
and
procedures of the office
operation.
Previous experience working
Experience