Job and Consultancy Opportunities
Resilient Livelihood Officer - Increasing the Resilience to Natural Hazards
Resilient Livelihood Officer - Increasing the Resilience to Natural Hazards
CARE Philippines is implementing “Increasing the Resilience to Natural Hazards”, a 30-month project focused on strengthening disaster preparedness and risk reduction capacities of vulnerable barangays and municipalities. Together with Assistance and Cooperation for Community Resilience and Development (ACCORD), Cordillera Disaster Response and Development Services (CorDis RDS), Leyte Center for Development, Inc (LCDE), and Agri-Aqua Development Coalition (AADC), the project will improve capacities of communities and vulnerable groups through developing early warning and disaster risk reduction mechanisms; developing resilient livelihood strategies for extremely poor, female headed households, and; enhancing disaster and climate risk governance.
The project will be implemented in selected areas in Cagayan, Mountain Province, Northern Samar, and Surigao del Sur.
The Resilient Livelihoods Officer ensures the implementation of resilient livelihood components of the project. S/he leads and support the project partners in the conduct of capacity development activities for livelihoods. S/he supports overall project reporting by providing updates on the status of the project’s performance indicators with relation to resilient livelihoods to the Project Manager and Project Steering Committee.
Project Officer - Resilience and Innovation Learning Hub
Project Officer - Resilience and Innovation Learning Hub
The RILhub Project Officer is responsible for managing the newly formed Resilience and Innovation Learning Hub (RILHub) for CARE Philippines and partners. The RILHub represents a unique partnership among civil society organizations to create an innovation and learning hub for building resilience to various types of shocks and stresses in the country, including those from a changing climate. It is a critical element of CARE’s engagement in the Philippines and seeks to multiply the impact of our activities and interventions by creating and consolidating knowledge and innovations at the nexus of development and humanitarian activities for increasing resilience. The RILHUB Project Officer will report to the Partners for Resilience Project Manager.
The RIlHub will have both a physical and virtual presence, seek to strengthen existing and build new partnerships with different types of organizations, commission and lead on knowledge creation, and catalyze innovations internally and externally around building resilience for poor and vulnerable women, girls, men and boys. The RILHub will work closely with the Humanitarian Partnership Platform and other ongoing projects at CARE Philippines, as well as engage with global conversations on building resilience with groups like CARE’s Climate Change and Resilience Platform.
Case Study Writer - Resilience and Innovation Learning Hub (Part-time)
Case Study Writer - Resilience and Innovation Learning Hub (Part-time)
The RILHub is looking for an experienced writer to develop and write case studies about the projects of CARE and its partners on building resilience to disasters in various communities in the country. The RILHub aims to produce case studies on Integrated Risk Management (IRM) focusing on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and ecosystem management and restoration. The RILHub will share these case studies, best practices, challenges, and solutions from different communities through its website and social media platforms.