DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

16 November 2024-23:59-GMT+06:00 Bangladesh Standard Time (Dhaka)

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WHY JOIN WFP? 

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.

• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate-related shocks and stresses, including monsoon flooding events. Monsoon floods usually occur March to September with peaks between June and September. In an ‘average’ year, approximately one quarter of the country is inundated. Every four to five years, there is a very severe flood, with climate change changing the predictability and severity of these events.
With the support of the Government, Bangladeshi society has developed a remarkable level of resilience and adaptation to seasonal flooding. However, in some years, flooding is more intense and surpasses the ability of communities to cope, leading to deaths and the destruction of key infrastructure, livelihoods and homes. This in turn creates widespread humanitarian needs with longer term development consequences.
The establishment of the MoDMR-led Forecast Based Financing/ Action Task Force (FbFA-TF) highlights the Government’s appreciation for the anticipatory approach and its willingness to lead in its further development.
This is mirrored and complemented by the Anticipatory Action Technical Working Group (AATWG) included in the UNHCCT.
Global attention on climate adaptation, and climate negotiations on Loss and Damage is growing resulting in innovative ways of understanding the consequences of climate change, as well as innovative ways for planning and financing for it (such as the Global Shield, where Bangladesh is identified as a pathfinder country).
Despite those efforts it has been identified the need for improved coordination support around AA; this will need to focus on strengthening existing coordination mechanisms and their effective interaction. These efforts will focus particularly on:
o Support national leadership in Early Warning (EW4ALL) and Anticipatory Action coordination
o Strengthened integration of FbF/AA players in the field.
o Enable and consolidate evidence-based pre-identification and prioritization of needs and requirements.
o Increasing national cooperation with local, national, regional and international initiatives to substantially increase financial protection against climate risks.

Under the direct supervision of the Head of Resilience Innovation and Social Protection and in coordination with WFP Resilience Innovation team and other key actors, the incumbent will be responsible for:

• Strengthening existing FbF-AA coordination mechanisms in Bangladesh particularly for UN agencies, AATWG and FbF/A Taskforce.
• Support national technical forecasting agencies to strengthen impact based early warning forecast mechanisms for all.
• Support national authorities in identifying required support to accelerate the implementation of their ambitions in climate risk management and climate adaptation.
• Identifying and accompanying Bangladesh authorities in establishing a country dialogues on Climate Disaster Risk Financing Instruments (CDRFI) needs. Specifically support the relevant national authorities in implementing an inclusive country-led process with wide range of actors, in implementing their stocktaking of CDRFI activities, gap analysis and elaborating a nationally owned and technically sound Request for CDRFI support.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:

• Both the FbFA-TF and the AATWG are equipped with quality and complementary work plans and hold regular coordination meetings.
• Technical support in updating standards, protocols and practices is provided.
• Support GoB and its partners in running lessons learned exercises on AA for collective improvement.
• Needs are properly identified on the basis of evidence and are mapped and agreed by all stakeholders.
• Support to national authorities in issuing an updated roadmap on CDRFI with clear mile stones to reach sustainability and make sure that WFP CO is equipped with a strategy on CDRFI that assists national authorities in achieving their aspirations.
• Early Warning for All principles and approaches are properly implemented in the country.
• Ensure timely annual corporate reporting to visualize the CO´s work in this agenda both internally within WFP(Corporate Results Framework) and with key stakeholders (Government, donors etc.)

 Qualification & Experience: 

Education:  University degree with one or more courses in one of the following: climate change adaptation; agriculture and food security; development studies; environmental studies or related.

Experience: Minimum 7 years of post-graduate experience in climate finance, forecast-based financing, early warning early action, project management and implementation with experience in South Asia desired.

Language: Proficiency in both oral and written communication skills in English 

Job related Information:

Job Title:    Coordinator-Anticipatory Action Technical Working Group (AATWG), CST II, Dhaka    
Grade:         CST II    
Type of contract: International Consultant                
Duration:      11 months         
Duty Station:     Dhaka
Date of Publication: 03 November 2024
Deadline of Application: 16 November 2024

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