Vacancy title:
Resilience Expert - Pakistan

Jobs at:
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)

Deadline of this Job:
31st August 2018

Duty Station:
Islamabad, Pakistan

Summary
Date Posted: 7th August 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

VSO is the world's leading development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty. We are unique in the way we bring people together to share their skills and experience, generate insights and ideas and, most of all, take action against poverty and exclusion. It's a highly effective approach that works, and today is helping millions of people in some of the world's poorest communities lift themselves out of poverty.

JOB DETAILS:

Volunteer role: Resilience Expert - Pakistan
Role overview
The purpose of this role is to strengthen understanding of the concept of resilience across VSO Pakistan programme areas through participated action planning which will be the basis of resilient programming approaches. You will conduct a national/ district level risk analysis and work with national volunteers and partners to undertake participatory risk analysis to community level to complement the macro-risk information.
Skills, qualifications, and experience

• Bachelors or Master's degree in research, social science or business studies, with proven affinity of social awareness.
  
• Experience with reviewing current development programmes and identifying areas for improvement;
  
• Experience working in fragile context with expertise of different approaches as (DRR/CBDRM, Conflict transformation, Peace-Building etc)
  
• Several years of experience in conducting large survey/fieldwork (data collection, validation, entry, and analysis), leading field staff teams implementing surveys in the field;
  
• Strong affinity with and preferably expertise in resilience issues in developing countries;
  
• Ability to communicate with different stakeholders on different levels within organizations
  
• Knowledge on resilience and risk management in developing countries is required as a core skill;
  
• Know-how of participatory assessment/development approaches is required;
  
• General software knowledge (e.g. Microsoft Office), and knowledge of statistical packages such as Excel, SPSS or STATA.
  Desirable
  Previous experience of living or working in Pakistan or South Asia
  Allowance
  As a VSO volunteer, you will be sharing your skills with local communities on a full-time basis. VSO will cover your travel, vaccinations, accommodation, and medical insurance costs, along with a local living allowance which will be paid in local currency. This allowance meets reasonable living expenses in country, but will not be enough to send money home. You will also receive some financial support to contribute to your on-going expenses at home.
  Accommodation
  VSO works with some of the poorest communities in the world which means accommodation varies and will be basic.