Program / Department Summary

General Position Summary

Essential Job Responsibilities

STRATEGY, PLANNING, AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

• Works closely with COP to develop the strategy for communitylevel adaptation and disaster planning.
• Leads the implementation of the technical strategy for community adaptation and disaster planning, ensuring it is appropriate to meet Activity objectives, quality standards, and adapts with learning and contextual changes.
• Integrate crosscutting approaches including locally driven, shockresponsive, climate adaptive, social and gender inclusive, youth empowerment, and nutrition sensitive approaches.
• With the support of MEL team, implement a framework for evaluating the effectiveness of communitylevel adaptation and DRR initiatives to inform future planning; conduct periodic assessments of disaster risks and update strategy based on changing environmental conditions.
• Identify opportunities to integrate technology, such as mobile applications for alerts or the utilization of GIS mapping for vulnerability assessments.
• Ensure interventions adhere to Mercy Corps’ Gender Policy, Do No Harm principles, program participant accountability standards, and program management minimum standards.

• Recruitment, onboarding, and supervising the Activity’s technical staff under the communitylevel adaptation and disaster planning component.

• Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect that embraces all voices into shared strategies and foster an inclusive culture of curiosity, collaboration, learning, and adaptation

• Provide team members with information, tools, and resources to improve performance, enhance technical and partnership management skills, and reach objectives.

• Promote staff accountability, communicate expectations, and provide constructive feedback informally and formally via regular oneonone meetings and performance reviews.

• Foster partnerships and collaborative engagement between government, NGOs, civil society, and private sectors for a coordinated approach to disaster risk reduction, planning, and management.

• Actively contribute to and collaborate with country, regional, and global counterparts to drive collective impact, share learning, and contribute to program visibility.

• Monitor partner activities to ensure adherence to grant agreements, Mercy Corps’ policies and procedures, and other relevant regulations, including those of USAID and the Government of Jamaica.

• Support systems to ensure effective and transparent use of financial resources for timely and informative reporting in line with program, donor, and Mercy Corps’ needs.

Security

• Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.
• Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.

Organizational Learning

• As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.

Accountability to Beneficiaries

• Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically
  to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

Supervisory Responsibility

Accountability

Knowledge and Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, including proven experience managing disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, or resilience activities.
• Advanced degree in social science, management, international development or other relevant field.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with local CSOs and working with government ministries/entities.
• Experience with and commitment to adaptive management and collaborative, learn, adapt (CLprocesses.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and a proven ability to network and maintain effective working relationships with diverse actors.
• Previous experience in the Caribbean or similar context preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Success Factors

Living Conditions / Environmental Conditions