Overview
The role serves as a liaison to connect Japanese private sector expertise with the Philippines country context, focusing on disaster risk reduction and financing.
Key Responsibilities
- Map ARISE Japan member companies and develop a prioritized stakeholder engagement plan.
- Conduct outreach and briefings to secure participation of relevant ARISE Japan members in project consultations, workshops, and analytical model development activities.
- Facilitate structured consultations with relevant ARISE Japan members to elicit business case scenarios, private sector risk perspectives, and investment themes for integration into the ROI analysis.
- Conduct a desktop review of Japanese risk models and frameworks with MSME focus, producing a concise technical note documenting findings and their relevance to the Philippines context.
- Serve as the primary liaison for this project between ARISE Japan and ARISE Philippines, coordinating bilateral exchanges and facilitating joint sessions as relevant to project activities.
- Contribute to project workshops, including preparation of background materials in Japanese, facilitation support, and post-event documentation as required.
- Provide regular progress updates to the UNDRR ROAP Programme Management Officer on engagement activities and emerging insights from the private sector.
Required Experience
Minimum 7 years of professional experience in private sector engagement, corporate sustainability, risk financing, or disaster risk reduction is required. Experience facilitating multi-stakeholder consultations between public and private sectors is required. Experience working with Japanese private sector entities, particularly within the insurance or financial sectors is highly desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Public Policy, Disaster Risk Management, or related field. A first level university degree with at least 2 additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
