Position: Director -Capacity Development

Organization: CDRI

Location: Delhi

Apply: https://cdri.world/career/career.php

Key Objectives of the Role:

• Leads formulation and coordinated implementation of the substantive work programme of CDRI’s Technical Support and Capacity Development Division, determining priorities, and allocating resources, including human resources, for the timely completion and delivery of outputs.

• Responsible for negotiating and influencing functional teams to ensure that reasonable resourcing levels are maintained, and their stakeholders are engaged and managed throughout the development life cycle of the project.

• Managing relationship within project governance structures and cross functional teams and act as the key driver for strategic plan for drawing programme capacities of CDRI.

• Undertakes or oversees the programmatic/administrative tasks necessary for the functioning of the Division, including preparation of budgets, assigning and monitoring of performance parameters and critical indicators, reporting on budget/programme performance, preparation of inputs for results-based budgeting, evaluation of staff performance (PAS), interviews of candidates for job openings and evaluation of candidates.

• Responsible for preparing CDRI’s activities under Strategic Priority; Technical Support and Capacity Development, its budget, monitoring and impact assessment on technical and financial grounds. Formulate estimates of budget, contingency plan and validating project estimates from external and internal stakeholders.

• Derive and maintain effective control mechanism on the projects, its implementation and seeks clarification from stakeholders, whenever appropriate.

• Responsible for entire portfolio of capacity development by which CDRI may obtain, develop and retain the technical knowledge and skills to excel in the field of disaster resilience.

Plan, coordinate, and lead activities

• Ensure that the CDRI Secretariat has project objectives and associated work plan to support the national and global initiatives related to disaster resilience in line with the CDRI work strategy.

• Strengthen national and international support to CDRI's mission and objectives and establish the

• organization’s credibility and brand.

• Develop, maintain, and update the CDRI Project plan for development and its implementation. The strategy and work plan would include environmental and stakeholder assessment, objectives, monitoring and evaluation of impact, success and opportunity for improvement, ongoing refinement of the project plan and its implementation strategy.

• Chairs meetings, seminars, etc., on substantive-related issues, represents the Coalition and/or the Division at various regional, inter-agency and international meetings, seminars, and conferences.

• Maintain close collaboration with internal and external development partners for effective coordination at every level.

• Under the leadership of the Director-General, guide the Division to provide substantive support for and collaborate closely with the CDRI members on joint projects and policy analysis, and to cooperate with CDRI partner organizations and international agencies.

Deriving project plan

• Establish work plan and staffing for programmes and arrange for assignment of project teams and their smooth coordination.

• Ensure timely achievement of the programme objectives in disaster resilience by ensuring effective technical and programmatic approach while initiating, implementing, or monitoring a project at national or international level.

• Outline work plan to define, scope, duties, responsibility, and scope of authority within projects team

Technical assistance to the management

• Ensure that the CDRI Secretariat has a well maintained and continually developed knowledge pool of individuals, groups, organizations (including Government, UN, and national and international development agencies) whose support is essential while developing the project development plan and its implementation.

• Provides guidance to the division’s substantive contributions to other publications and reports that are coordinated by other divisions.

• Supports the DG to report to the Coalition’s and Society’s governance arrangements on

• management issues including budget/programme performance, as appropriate.

Education and Experience Required Education Criteria -

• Post-Graduate qualification in project management, engineering, planning, architecture, environmental sciences, climate change, applied sciences, or a related field are preferred. A first-level university degree in combination with four additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

• Doctorate / PhD degree a field relevant to the profile’s technical requirements would be desirable.

Experience Criteria -

• Over 15 years of progressively responsible experience in programme/project management in disaster risk reduction, sustainable development, environment, or related area is required.

• Experience of work in Infrastructure Sectors (Power, Telecom, Transport, Water, Urban Infrastructure etc) for at least 5 years.

• Experience in senior management positions, including resource mobilization and partnership building is required.

• Experience in leadership positions, including leading complex planning processes, interacting with, and establishing productive cooperation with a diverse number of partners, comprising Governments, the UN, multi-lateral systems, business, science and civil society is required.

• Experience overseeing office management in large international organizations is desirable.

• Experience working in the UN system is desirable.

• Experience representing organizations at high-level international conferences and events is desirable.

• Experience advocating for the core mandate of organizations with a wide range of partners is desirable

Language Requirements: For the post advertised, fluency in oral and written English is required