Name of the Position

American Red Cross (AmRC) Bangladesh Delegation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is seeking application from a consultant with specific knowledge and expertise on disaster risk management.

Job Purpose:

The consultant will utilize American Red Cross’ Community Disaster Readiness checklist for conducting community level disaster readiness assessments. At inception stage the consultant will receive relevant onboarding/orientation to not only familiarize themselves with the project but also with the assessment tools. This will be led by the project team in close consultation and American Red Cross Regional Technical Advisors. The community and disaster readiness assessment aims to promote better understanding and analysis in terms of community preparedness towards natural disasters. This will be accomplished through examining community-level preparedness in four key areas, namely self-organization, ability to take action, knowledge and awareness, and connectivity.  Specifically:

• The community disaster readiness assessment will aim to measure and compare (at the community level) progress made in each community on four determinants that include self-organization, ability to take action, knowledge and awareness, and connectivity.

Overall, the process will enable assessing the capacity of vulnerable communities in relation to responding to disasters more effectively and reducing risks while also recognizing community-level strengths and weaknesses. The result of the assessments will be used to adjust project strategies and intervention (where necessary and applicable) to ensure that project activities address gaps identified from the assessments. Furthermore, results will be compared with prior and future assessments and will also enable learning and sharing of community practices on using innovative tools and resources to help increase their safety and resilience.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

The consultant will be responsible to ensure the assessments utilizes methodologies that meet qualitative research standards of the scientific community. The scope of work must include the following: 

• Review of secondary sources of information  
• Collect and review relevant data, reports and publications, both project-related and disaster risk reduction program component- related, as part of the overall analysis and reporting  
• Assessment Tool Adaptation (in close consultation with the project team and American Red Cross Regional Technical Advisors) 
• Provide technical support in adapting the assessment tools (if applicable) 
• Translate data assessment tool into local language(s) where relevant.  
• Conduct community (and school) disaster readiness assessment (in close consultation with the project team and American Red Cross Regional Technical Advisors) 
• Recruit and train data collectors/facilitators 
• Provide necessary guidance to data collectors/facilitators   
• Establish mechanisms to ensure data quality  
• Lead and coordinate data collection 
• Data management, analysis, and reporting (in close consultation with the project team and American Red Cross Regional Technical Advisors) 
• Perform data cleaning and consolidate findings from the community and school assessments   
• Perform data analysis  
• Prepare the assessment report 
• Present the results to the project team and other stakeholders as relevant 

Education Requirements:

Post graduate degree, from a recognized institution, in social research particularly qualitative studies, or monitoring & evaluation

Experience:

• Five to seven years’ experience conducting and leading survey research and assessments, both quantitative and qualitative, 4 of which should be with international organizations (NGOs, UN, and other humanitarian agencies)
• Demonstrated experience in training and managing data collectors/facilitators of the qualitative study 
• Experience with work in DRR or related sectors
• Experience in Monitoring and Evaluation (preferably in DRR or related sectors)

Knowledge and Skills:

• Excellent knowledge and skills in qualitative research methodology including data analysis techniques with Excel or other software such as NVivo; Atlas Ti. 
• Excellent communication skills for training and facilitation, and leadership to manage and coordinate a team of data collectors/facilitators (working knowledge of local dialects is an added advantage)
• Ability to work independently, ability to juggle and coordinate various tasks simultaneously, ability to prioritize tasks, well organized, reliable and trustworthy
• Excellent in English and Bangla writing and presentation skills
• Immediate availability for the period indicated
• Experience working with RCRC Movement
• Well acquainted on disaster management structure of local government and experience to work with local government institutes

Terms of Reference (TOR)
Terms of Reference (TOR) for DRR Consultant can be downloaded from Here

Application Procedure

Applicants must refer to the detailed application procedures (Section 7.2) in the detailed Terms of Reference (TOR).

Please note that this position will close on 19 September 2021. However, IFRC reserves the right to fill the role prior to the advertisement end date. As such, candidates are encouraged to apply at their earliest convenience.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

About Us:

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization. The IFRC Country Office in Bangladesh has worked alongside the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) for more than 30 years in humanitarian fields including disaster management, with a focus on the cyclone early warning and response program in the coastal belt, and disaster preparedness and response during natural disasters.