Technical Advisor I- DRR and Recovery

**Job Title:** Technical Advisor I, DRR and Recovery **Department:** Humanitarian Response Department (HRD) **Country/Location:** HRD/Global **Remote** **Duration:** 18 months with possibility of extension based on performance **About CRS** Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to *save, protect, and transform* lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding. **Job Summary:** This position will support the integration of Disaster Risk Reduction/Recovery (DRR/R) across all RAPID program interventions, providing technical guidance in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality standards, donor requirements, and industry best practices. Through your expertise, advice, and influence, you will help ensure that DRR/Recovery through the Community Led Disaster Risk Management (CLDRM) approaches are effective, adaptive, and innovative, ultimately strengthening the quality and impact of programming for vulnerable populations. **Key Responsibilities** * Contribute to the implementation of agency\-wide strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in DRR/Recovery in humanitarian response, that effectively engage partners, donors and governments. Help ensure a cross\-sectoral approach integrating gender, inclusion, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction. * Provide technical solutions to regional and County Program teams, remotely and on\-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply program design and implementation standards , best practices, partnership principles, tools, and M\&E, ensuring high\-quality implementation. * Contribute to the development of the technical design for proposals. Support the process of preparation, design, submission and approval of project concepts and full\-fledged proposals. As needed, act as a technical writer on proposal development teams. Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into CRS’ approach. * Support capacity strengthening initiatives in DRR/Recovery programming for staff and partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and coaching. * Collect and analyze program data, capture and share lessons learned and best practices for specific projects to facilitate improvements in decision\-making and contribute to the DRR/Recovery learning agenda. Contribute to maintaining relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions, participate in forums in DRR/Recovery to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work. * ***Knowledge, Skills and Abilities*** * Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, Po