Child Fund International Review and Development of Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan Jobs in Kenya
Child Fund International Review and Development of Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan Jobs in Kenya
Overall Objective of the ConsultancyThe objective is to support and coordinate the review and development of a ChildFund Kenya Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan (EPP), that will enable ChildFund achieve its CSP priorities.
The EPP process is also expected to enable ChildFund Kenya to meet its EPP aims as outlined above, with a specific focus on Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE), Education in Emergency (EiE), WASH, Food Security, Shelter and NFIs among other related interventions.
The EPP is thus envisaged to enable ChildFund Kenya and its Local Partners (LPs) to mainstream Disaster Risk reduction in their interventions and projects. **
Overally, the EPP is expected to be the overarching guide that will assist ChildFund Kenya to prepare, plan, and execute emergency response interventions that ensures and guarantees the protection of Deprived, Excluded and Vulnerable (DEV) Children and their families.
The anticipated immediate outcome of the plan is to minimise the effect of disasters on children while working to help in recovery from disasters and build resilience of communities.
Specific Objectives
Coordinate and work with ChildFund staff and Local Partners (LPs) technical staff in the gathering of information on the hazards, risks, vulnerability, and capacity in the ChildFund operational areas for updating of the Emergency Preparedness Plan (EPP).
Coordinate and work with the all the ChildFund departments leads to review the Country EPP in line with the information gathered.
Coordinate the review, design, and delivery of final EPP to ChildFund Kenya by end of quatre 3 of 2020
Expected contents and outputs
ChildFund and its LP staff should be able to appreciate and understand the potential risks affecting children, their families, and communities and how to respond.
An updated EPP that will enable ChildFund Kenya to adequately and effectively respond to different emergencies that may occur.
To enable ChildFund and its LPs better contribute to the timely and relevant emergency response in the affected target communities.
Management and Coordination
The key people that the consultant will be working closely with at ChildFund Kenya include the Programs and Sponsorship Director, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Specialist, FSL Specialist, Child Protection Manager, Area Managers, Monitoring Evaluation Knowledge Management Manager and the Local Partners.
The consultant may at certain times be
required to give the progress to the Country Director, ChildFund Kenya.
Tentative Schedule
The exercise will take approximately 15 working days spanning over a period of 6 weeks from the agreed start date of the assignment.
There will be an inception meeting with the consultant on the first day with the PSD and DRR specialist and Child Protection manager with Country Director being optional attendee.
The consultant will take 5 working days to gather updated information from the relevant stakeholders as indicated in the scope and methodology above
Review and update of the ChildFund EPP will take 6 working days and followed presentation to the SMT for validation.
Upon validation the consultant will finalization the EPP final document and submit to ChildFund within for working days.
Deliverables
Submission for an Inception Report at three days after taking up the assignment.
Submission of the final reviewed and updated ChildFund Emergency Preparedness Plan
A short presentation to ChildFund SMT on the EPP
Consultants’ Qualifications
The consultant must have the following competencies:
Must have similar experience on Emergency
Response planning and Disaster Preparedness in the past three years
Should have an advanced degree in Emergency
Preparedness and Response, Disaster management or a discipline related to one of the technical areas addressed by the project, from recognized universities.
Good understanding of Kenya disaster and climate change context
Experience in developing organizational strategies, contingency plans, actions plans and policy documents etc. in areas of Emergency
Excellent analytical and report writing skills
Excellent written and spoken English
How to Apply
Interested candidates who meet the above qualifications should send their expression of interest including the technical and financial proposal.
The technical proposal should clearly indicate the qualification and previous similar assignments undertaken.
Incomplete documents will be disqualified, all the expression of interest should be sent by close of business on 14th Dec.2020 to kenyaprocurement@childfund.org
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