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• Oversee and support design, development of the relevant
  socio-economic, Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans and Urban DRR
  plans and activities of the project;
• Support and ensuring effective coordination and information sharing
  on project activities with relevant project staff and stakeholders in
  liaison with the Project Manager;
• Provision of technical guidance to relevant counterparts/project
  staff on programmatic and project implementation issues with a view to
  ensuring that effective assistance flows directly to targeted
  beneficiaries;
• Ensuring needs and community capacity assessments are completed and
  technical assistance is provided effectively.
• Analyze relevant subject specific science based information to
  generate hazard specific decision support products to suit the needs of
  vulnerable sectors such as agriculture, water, energy, etc. for
  utilization by stakeholders at all levels (community, City/Local
  Governments, Provincial and National governments);
• Analyze hazard, vulnerability and risk and potential impacts to
  vulnerable sectors based on subject specific information in order to
  design appropriate climate risk reduction interventions and climate change
  adaptation measures to suit all levels (community, City/Local Government,
  Provincial and National governments);
• Generate / prepare advance hazard specific early warnings,
  end-to-end EW system development and dissemination of relevant information
  to communities at risk as well as to sector specific stakeholders such as
  agriculture, water, energy, etc at all levels;
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Concept of Operations
  (CONOPs), Decision Support Systems (DSSs) for effective dissemination of
  Early warnings to communities at risk
• Develop Climate Risk Management ( CRM) /Climate Change Adaptation
  (CCA) strategies and identification of risk management opportunities to
  address residual risk within different eco-systems to minimize socio-economic
  effects on lives, livelihoods, economic assets and infrastructure;
• Analyze socio-economic and physical vulnerabilities to changing
  climate and climate risk environment, utilizing results from research on
  historical impacts, current adaptation /coping strategies and policy and
  institutional landscape, and changing socio-economic conditions
  (population growth, urbanization, economic growth, consumption trends,
  environmental degradation, etc.);
• Provide resource inputs in development and delivery of training
  & capacity building programs on the subject to enable user
  institutions and communities to translate risk information and apply
  decision support tools for CRM and CCA;
• Advocate for the integration of CRM and/or climate forecast
  information application in development planning process and mainstreaming;
• Assisting in developing strategic approach to achieving program
  goals and sustainability of the CRM and climate risk management programs
  undertaken by Uganda Red Cross Society;
• Assistance in increasing the program outreach through development of
  new programmes, engagement in advocacy, assistance in fund mobilization,
  enhancement of existing partnerships and development of new partnership to
  increase the outreach;
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the IARP Project
  Manager.

• The ideal candidate for the Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS)
  Socio-Economic/Early warning and Early Action (EWEA) Officer – Innovative
  Approaches in Response Preparedness job opportunity should preferably hold
  a Bachelor’s Degree in the fields of Meteorology, Hydrology,
  Agro-meteorology; Disaster Risk Management, Climate Change Adaptation or
  other related fields from a reputable institute;
• Post Graduate qualification in in the fields of Meteorology,
  Hydrology, Agro-meteorology; Disaster Risk Management, Climate Change
  Adaptation or other related fields from a reputable institute will be an
  added advantage;
• Three years of experience in undertaking climate risk
  management/climate change adaptation, early warning system development and
  utilizing climate information to reduce the physical & socio-economic
  impacts to communities and vulnerability of relevant sectors;
• Experience in climate related hazard risk information generation and
  dissemination to vulnerable communities/sectors;
• Experience in design, implementation and management of projects
  related to climate risk management and adaptation to climate change.
• Knowledge in training and capacity building in the above mentioned
  fields;
• Demonstrated experience in documentation and development of
  Knowledge management products;
• Demonstrated experience in Climate related Hazard specific
  information generation, application, translation / interpretation and
  dissemination to all levels including sector specific stakeholders;
• Proficiency in English language, oral and written communication
  including having a demonstrated track record in technical report writing
  and ability to communicate technical matters effectively to general
  audience;
• Excellent interpersonal skills, team-oriented work style, and
  experience in working in a multi-cultural environment.

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