SENIOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST – Asia Pacific Region
This is a Permanent, Full Time or Part Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Role
Do you have experience working in the international development or humanitarian sectors? Do you have the skills and passion needed to develop climate and flood resilience strategies where they are needed most in the world?
We are looking for a senior flood, climate and disaster risk management specialist to join our growing international development and humanitarian teams, working on projects that make a difference in South-East Asia and the Pacific regions. Our clients include the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Pacific Community (SPC), Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC), Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and many other International Financial Institutions, UN Agencies and humanitarian organisations.
You’ll be joining an established environmental and engineering consultancy who put sustainability and resilience to climate change at the heart of our company strategy. With offices in nine countries around the world and across the UK and Ireland, we like to think we make a difference. We are independent and employee-owned allowing us the freedom to focus on innovation and our commitment to exceptional client service. Our workforce is central to our success, and we invest heavily in supporting staff development. We are great people to work for. Visit https://www.jbaconsulting.com/ to find out more about what we do.
Your role
Our work is at the forefront of building sustainable community resilience through strategies that address the whole lifecycle of disasters. This involves:
· Hazard and risk assessment
· The design of resilience strategies that couple structural, non-structural and nature-based solutions
· Flood forecasting, early warning and anticipatory action
· Emergency preparedness and response
· Disaster risk financing and insurance
· Capacity building and stakeholder engagement
· Rapid recovery.
The team member we’re looking for
We need someone who is passionate, well organised and flexible. We are looking for candidates who demonstrate a proactive, entrepreneurial approach to identifying and pursuing new opportunities for business development and organizational growth within the ID&H sector. Strong analytical skills with the ability to independently tackle complex challenges, develop viable solutions, and make decisive, well-informed decisions is important. Significant experience in the international development and/or humanitarian sectors is required. Ability to travel internationally for short periods (1-2 week missions) is essential.
Ideally, we are looking for candidates to be based in and with legal right to work in either Singapore or Australia. Applications from other APAC regional jurisdictions may be able to be accommodated, subject to business and personal arrangements. Expressions of interest in such circumstances are welcomed.
Qualifications
Applicants are expected to have a Degree and a Master’s Degree (or equivalent) in a related geoscience or engineering field, in international development or similar.
Essential attributes for the role
We are looking for someone who can:
· Lead business development and client engagement activities for the International Development and Humanitarian (ID&H) work in the APAC region
· Lead bidding for ID&H projects in the APAC region
· Act as Project Manager on awarded assignments, liaising with clients, national governments and stakeholders
· Manage large and diverse project teams and consortiums across different time zones
· Manage large projects to tight budgets and programmes
· Oversee work and quality control (for the themes introduced above)
· Work as a team and mentor and manage less experienced staff.
Desirable attributes for the role
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Location and contact
JBA supports hybrid working which provides for greater flexibility with the way that we work.
The role is available at various different offices, if you would like to know more please contact us. We're always on the lookout for talented, committed and inspiring people to join us in our ambition to lead in the pursuit for resilience to climate change. In return, we offer rewarding careers with continued opportunities and dedicated support for personal development. Build your career with us and help us to build a more resilient future.
For further information or an informal discussion about this position, please contact John Bevington on john.bevington@jbaconsulting.com
The JBA Family
The JBA Group is a family of environmental, engineering and risk management companies committed to exceptional service and helping clients and communities build resilience to flood and environmental risk in a changing climate. We're leading the way to integrate science and technology to provide our clients with a forward-thinking view of climate resilience.
We can only do this through our fantastic team, and we believe in providing a competitive salary, flexible working conditions and the best benefits package we can. We’re an employee-owned organisation and have no external shareholders to pay, meaning all our staff benefit directly from our profits through our annual Employee-Owned Benefit scheme.
Alongside this, we’re focused on helping our staff develop their skills and offer a generous training budget to every member of staff, as well as a professional development programme and support in the attainment of professional qualifications including chartered membership.
We invest in our staff’s mental health and wellbeing, encouraging our staff to maintain a healthy work-life balance and organising social activities from bake sales and book clubs to badminton. We also invest in the wider community by funding our own charitable foundation, the JBA Trust, supporting sustainability initiatives such as tree planting, and facilitating outreach visits by our team of STEM ambassadors.
JBA is committed to creating and sustaining a working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfil their potential and we welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, support armed forces personnel, both past and present, through the Armed Forces Covenant, and promote a menopause-friendly workplace, having signed the Menopause Workplace Pledge.
All roles will be considered for part-time or flexible working, and we encourage applications from candidates who may be returning to work after a career break for any reason, or who are looking to change industry.
No unsolicited CVs from Agencies. All Agencies should note that if JBA receives an application via other means - even if it comes after your first contact with us - there will be no contractual entitlement to an introduction fee or other fees. In sending us any applications you are deemed to have agreed to these terms.
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