[Hiring] Technical Advisor II-Hazard Monitoring @Catholic Relief Services | CRS

Role Description

The Technical Advisor II, Hazard Monitoring provides advisory, capacity strengthening, and systems support related to hazard monitoring, early warning, and anticipatory action. The position will translate weather and climate forecasts, as well as conflict and other non-climate crisis analysis into actionable information to support humanitarian decision-making, risk reduction strategies and initiatives for CRS project & country teams and partners. Through technical accompaniment, guidance, and collaboration, the position contributes to high-quality emergency and DRR programming in line with CRS program quality principles, donor requirements, and humanitarian best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical advisory support to CRS regions and country programs to integrate weather and climate information into risk reduction, early action, anticipatory action (AA), and early warning systems (EWS).
• Gather, analyze, interpret, and tailor open-source weather and climate science data, as well as non-climate drivers into pragmatic, decision-oriented information for humanitarian programming.
• Support the design, adaptation, and use of dashboards, visualization tools, monitoring products, and bulletins for regional and country level hazard monitoring and risk analysis.
• Integrate new sources of weather, climate and other contextual drivers of crisis information into existing humanitarian workflows, focusing on forecasting, risk, and vulnerability.
• Explain and contextualize uncertainty, probability, and forecast accuracy to non-technical audiences to support informed decision-making.
• Identify links between weather and climate impacts, livelihood changes, market disruption, and political conflict. Advise technical sector leads on incorporating weather and climate data into sectoral analysis, program design, and response planning.
• Advise on the development and delivery of tools, guidance, and learning resources to strengthen CRS and partner capacity in hazard monitoring and AA/DRR programming.
• Contribute to knowledge management by documenting lessons learned, promising practices, and innovations related to hazard monitoring, DRR, and AA, and sharing through CRS technical networks and platforms.

Qualifications

• Technical knowledge of weather and climate modeling, probabilistic risk analysis, satellite observation, GIS, and related analytical tools.
• Knowledge of multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS), climate data sources, and last mile EWS approaches.
• Knowledge of technical principles and concepts in DRR, including community-based approaches.
• Understanding of design requirements and regulations of major donors including the United States Government, the EU, UN agencies, and Caritas.
• Strong networking, presentation, and cross-cultural communication skills.
• Strong strategic, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, manage competing priorities, and operate in fast-paced and, at times, stressful environments.
• Proactive, resourceful, solution-oriented, and results-oriented mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in meteorology, atmospheric science, remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), environmental engineering, climate risk management, disaster preparedness, or a related field.
• Experience with an international NGO.
• Experience supporting proposal development, technical inputs, or donor-funded project design.
• Located in or able to cover UTC +0 – UTC +4 time zones preferred.

Required Languages

• Fluency in English required.
• Fluency in Arabic, French, Spanish, and/or Portuguese a plus.

Travel

• Must be willing to travel up to 50%.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• No.

Company Description

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. Catholic Relief Services works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. Catholic Relief Services’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peacebuilding. We welcome as a part of our staff people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to serving those in need.

• CRS’ processes and policies reflect our commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.
• CRS welcomes candidates from the countries and regions in which we work.
• CRS is committed to safeguarding program participants, community members, staff and volunteers from all forms of exploitation and abuse.
• The successful candidate is expected to sign and adhere to CRS´ Code of Conduct.
• CRS talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding the rights and dignity of all people - especially children and vulnerable adults - to live free from abuse and harm.

General Requirements

• CRS offers are contingent on the selected candidate’s ability to legally work where the position is to be performed.
• Every government has a unique set of work permit eligibility requirements.
• All positions requiring residence or frequent travel outside a home country must undergo and clear a pre-employment medical clearance; some work permit processes require clearing a separate government administered medical examination.
• CRS prioritizes candidates who are citizens/permanent residents of the countries where we have CRS offices.