Overview
The Project Coordinator – Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) will support programme planning, implementation, monitoring, capacity strengthening, and documentation of lessons learned, promoting child-centred, inclusive, risk-informed, and locally led approaches.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate the day-to-day implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programme activities.
- Prepare and regularly update detailed implementation plans, activity schedules, and district work plans.
- Coordinate project implementation across designated districts.
- Identify implementation challenges and coordinate timely solutions.
- Support programme planning, procurement planning, and resource allocation.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with sub-national government institutions, local authorities, technical agencies, implementing partners, and other stakeholders.
- Coordinate with government counterparts and partners to facilitate programme implementation, joint planning, and technical collaboration.
- Represent Save the Children in district-level coordination meetings and technical forums.
- Promote collaboration and coordination among stakeholders.
- Coordinate the implementation of programme activities across key technical areas.
- Support the Technical Advisor in ensuring programme activities are implemented in accordance with approved technical standards, guidelines, and methodologies.
- Conduct regular field monitoring visits.
- Ensure cross-cutting themes are effectively integrated into programme implementation.
- Coordinate the implementation of capacity strengthening initiatives.
- Support partners in programme planning, implementation, reporting, and compliance.
- Facilitate workshops, training programmes, simulation exercises, learning events, and coordination meetings.
- Coordinate programme monitoring in collaboration with the MEAL team.
- Prepare timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, donor, and internal reports.
- Document lessons learned, case studies, and good practices.
- Contribute to programme reviews, evaluations, and learning events.
- Monitor the utilisation of district-level budget allocations and support expenditure forecasting.
- Coordinate procurement, logistics, consultant management, and operational planning.
- Ensure activities comply with Save the Children's financial, procurement, and operational procedures.
- Ensure programme implementation complies with Save the Children's safeguarding, child protection, PSEAH, health and safety, and risk management policies.
- Identify and escalate programme risks and implementation challenges.
- Promote accountability to affected populations.
- Contribute to Save the Children's emergency preparedness and humanitarian response activities.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 3-5 years progressive experience in coordinating and implementing Disaster Risk Reduction, resilience, humanitarian, or development programmes.
- Demonstrated experience in coordinating multi-stakeholder programmes involving government institutions, local authorities, implementing partners, and communities.
- Experience in implementing community-based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR), school safety, preparedness, climate resilience, or related programmes.
- Experience in coordinating programme implementation through local partners and supporting partner capacity strengthening.
- Sound understanding of project cycle management, including planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and risk management.
- Experience in coordinating training, workshops, consultations, simulation exercises, and learning events.
- Experience in monitoring programme budgets, expenditure, and implementation against approved work plans.
- Good understanding of safeguarding, accountability to affected populations (AAP), gender equality, disability inclusion, and child rights in humanitarian and development programming.
- Experience in working with donor-funded programmes and ensuring compliance with donor and organisational requirements.
- Experience in emergency preparedness and humanitarian response (desirable).
- Experience working with national or sub-national disaster management authorities and coordination mechanisms (desirable).
- Knowledge of disaster risk-informed programming, climate adaptation, anticipatory action, or Comprehensive School Safety (desirable).
- Experience in documenting lessons learned, case studies, and programme learning (desirable).
Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree in Disaster Risk Management, Disaster Management, Environmental Management, Climate Change, Geography, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Urban Planning, Natural Resource Management, or another relevant discipline.
- A postgraduate qualification in Disaster Risk Management, Climate Change, Humanitarian Action, Project Management, or a related field will be an added advantage.
- Project Management certification (e.g. PMP) or relevant professional training would be an added advantage.
