National project support officer
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Background
GeoHazards Society (GHS) is a not-for-profit organisation working towards making the country´s most vulnerable communities safer from earthquakes and other hazards, through preparedness, mitigation and advocacy. Along with its international partner organisation, GeoHazards International (www.geohaz.org), the organisation has been working in partnership with government organizations and Corporate Sectors in conducting programmes on Community Preparedness, School Safety, Hospital Safety, engineers training programmes, business continuity planning etc. GHS is playing a coordinating role in an NDMA project in coordination with IIT Bombay and IIT Madras to develop and earthquake scenario for a magnitude 8.0 earthquake in the Haryana-Himachal Pradesh border. This exercise will involve the States of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh (UT), Uttarakhand and Jammu Kashmir.
GHS seeks to hire full time staff members to facilitate the project at various locations including NDMA and in the field to coordinate with the State Governments concerned. The selected PSO would be lateral leaders.
Key responsibilities
- Coordinate on behalf of NDMA with various stakeholder institutions such as IITB,IITM, SDMAs and other National and State level agencies involved in the exercise.
- Monitoring and coordination of activities of the State level PSOs.
Requirements
- Post-graduate with at least four years of work experience in disaster management, public policy, health, education, or an earthquake-related technical field (for example, geology, geography, seismology, structural engineering, or geotechnical engineering).
- Good inter-personal skills and demonstrate that they are capable of successfully coordinating diverse groups of stakeholders, managing working relationships between project participants, and handling logistical and administrative tasks.
- Good English and Hindi speaking and writing skills.
- Excellent computer skills.
- Previous experience of working with Government / Government agencies will be a definite advantage.