Volunteer in Disaster Preparedness and Contingency Planning in Kenya

Volunteer in Disaster Preparedness and Contingency Planning in Kenya

The placement period is for 6 months, with the duty station at the Marafa LRP, Kilifi Count, Kenya.

ActionAid International Kenya is a non-partisan, non-religious development organisation and has been working in Kenya since 1972 to end poverty and injustices. It isamong the leading anti-poverty agencies working directly with over one million poor and excluded people in 15 counties in Kenya and has over 47 years of knowledge and experience working with poor communities.

The volunteer position is part of the EUAID Volunteer’s Initiative – an Initiative that brings volunteers and organisations together from different countries, providing practical support to humanitarian aid projects and contributing to strengthening local capacity and resilience of disaster-affected communities. A core focus is further to promote global solidarity and post-placement information work in Europe.

Volunteer Tasks

Mobilization and awareness raising

• Support mobilization of community members, especially women, to create awareness on disaster risks and climate change issues and development of women-led preparedness plans.
• Support in collaboration with the LRP coordinator communities led by women to initiate community level disaster preparedness initiatives.

Contingency Planning

• In collaboration with LRP coordinator carry out the partners continuous assessments and develop hazard risk maps and other useful information and advocacy materials.
• Support development of contingency plans in collaboration with the LRP Coordinator and local partners.

Capacity Building

• Support training of women on understanding, interpretation, and application of climate information for disaster risk reduction.
• Support in training communities on DRR strategies and community-based approaches.

Documentation

• Support documentation of best practice and successful stories of change.

Knowledge sharing and learning

• Participate in and contribute to relevant in-country and cross-country learning and knowledge sharing events and processes within the ActionAid federation, such as the Youth Community of Interest.

Communication and awareness on EU Aid Volunteers Initiative

• Promote local volunteerism in disaster risk reduction, prevention and response.
• Promote partnerships and collaboration between local and European organizations;
• Draft and publish articles describing volunteer's experience in the field in cooperation with the communications team in AA Kenya and AA Denmark.
• Gather audio-visual materials to be used in a public awareness activity in the volunteer's local community in Europe in consultation with AA Kenya.
• In coordination with the NGOs partner of the project, organize and execute a public awareness activity once back in Europe.

As this volunteer is placed under the EU AID Volunteer Initiative the volunteer must be a citizen of the EU or a third country national who is a long-term resident in an EU Member State and must have a minimum age of 18 years

Qualifications

• University degree in climate change, environmental sciences, social sciences, natural sciences, development studies, disaster risk management or other relevant fields with specialization in climate change.
• Knowledge of best practices in disaster risk management and DRR.

Core competencies:

• Independent and proactive – able to work on one’s own and take initiative.
• Strong facilitation skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Must be a positive role model to the young people.
• A strong commitment to ActionAid values and feminist leadership principles
• Able to build collaborative relationships
• Innovative – able to develop and innovate youth engagement activities.

Required voluntary work experience:

• Experience with Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness is an added advantage.
• Experience in working with young and rural people.
• Experience with motivating and supporting young people.
• Experience with participatory approach to youth engagements.

Personal qualifications:

• Independence
• Patience and tolerance
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
• Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities
• Ability to work with limited resources

Language requirements:

• Fluency in English

Minimum requirements:

• Willing to work in the country context and adapt to the local culture
• Willing to travel to local communities as per need
• Willingness to live under modest living conditions in solidarity with the people ActionAid International Kenya works with and for
• The volunteer must understand and adhere to international standards in humanitarian protection and accountability

As this volunteer is placed under the EU AID Volunteer Initiative the volunteer must be a citizen of the EU or a third country national who is a long-term resident in an EU Member State and must have a minimum age of 18 years.

Terms and condition will follow those of EU AID Volunteers

• Monthly Subsistence Lump Sum of 515,95 € per month which intends to cover basic needs and local transport.
• Monthly post-deployment resettlement of 100 € per month
• Modest accommodation, Visa fees, insurance and airfare to and from the country of service
• 2 days leave per month of voluntary activity + domestic holidays in the country of service
• Work hours in accordance with ActionAid International Kenya

Application and recruitment Process

To apply, the candidate should write a letter of motivation, fill out a Europass CV CV LINK and Self-Assessment Questionnaire SAQ LINK and upload all these documents to the application link below

Application Deadline: August 24th 2020

Shortlisting and interviews on SKYPE with the candidates: August

Selected candidates from interviews will be obligated to participate in an online training module as well as a 9-12 day in-presence training in Europe as part of the selection process. More than one candidate for each position will be selected for training to support the development of a pool of validated candidates – however only one candidate will eventually be selected for this position.

Travel and training costs to participate in the in-presence training will be covered.

Placement start is expected to be November 2020

Please, visit EACEA’s vacancy announcement page for more information and to see the full vacancy of this position. Here you will also be able to see other volunteer opportunities and read more about the EU AID Volunteer Initiative:

https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/echo/eu-aid-volunteers_en/