Civil protection experts: capacity building - part time

The overall objective of the project is to reduce the vulnerability of the beneficiaries to natural and man-made disasters at local, national and regional levels.

The fields of activities of the project will be to raise awareness, build capacity and implement:

- early warning systems
- host nation support
- emergency dispatch centres and to bring the beneficiaries closer to the EU Civil Protection Mechanism by:
- training and exchanging experts
- plan and conduct exercises
- plan and conduct workshops

The capacity building experts will be responsible for organizing the workshops and preparing discussion papers for each workshop and the analytical study on HNS. The experts will be expected to take part in the lecturing activities during the trainings where adequate. They will work closely with the team leader.

Qualifications and skills

- Relevant university degree
- Fluency in both written and spoken English
- High quality analytical and document drafting skills
- Excellent organizational and communication skills Among candidates of comparable qualifications and skills, preference will be given to those who have linguistic skills in one or more languages of the beneficiary countries.

General professional experience

- Preferably 5 years of relevant professional experience in the field of civil protection/disaster management or equivalent.
- General experience demonstrating an understanding of the EU acquis relevant for civil protection and/or of the EU enlargement process.

Specific professional experience

- Experience in civil protection capacity building activities including organisation, facilitation and moderation of large meetings, development of background materials, coordination of activities, ensuring follow up etc.
- Experience in at least one of the topics of the workshops; experience in a second or more topics would be preferable.
- A proven track record in civil protection competence and a good understanding of the institutional challenges of project planning and of working with relevant stakeholders.
- Experience in editing of promotional materials and managing information flow,
- Experience in performing analytical studies (desirable) and
- Experience in interacting with candidate countries and potential candidates, other relevant stakeholders and the European Commission services (desirable).

Among candidates fulfilling these requirements, preference will be given to those with demonstrated experience in interacting with civil protection services in as many beneficiaries as possible.