Technical Advisor II-Hazard Monitoring

Catholic Relief Services | CRS•United States,

11h

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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. Ability to ensure a cross-sectoral approach to disaster risk management (DRM), emergency contingency planning, etc.
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. The ability to develop and maintain relationships with donors, peer organizations, and other partners.
Strong strategic, analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to make sound judgment and decisions with limited or incomplete information and offer innovative solutions.
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.
Fluency in English required.
Must be willing to travel up to 50%.

Nice To Haves

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

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 opensource 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.