Technical Advisor II-Hazard Monitoring

Position duration: (Tentative July 1, 2026 – December 31, 2027)

Note: Position is contingent on funding.

Catholic Relief Services is implementing a global emergency response initiative designed to deliver timely, life‑saving humanitarian assistance in rapidly evolving crises worldwide. Over 18 months, the program enables fast, flexible action to address urgent needs arising from sudden shocks and protracted emergencies. It supports critical humanitarian sectors through context‑appropriate assistance while emphasizing operational readiness, locally led implementation, accountability to affected communities, and safe, dignified programming. The initiative strengthens the organization’s ability to respond at speed and scale in complex and resource‑constrained environments, ensuring help reaches people most in need when it matters most.

The Technical Advisor II, Hazard Monitoring provides advisory, capacity strengthening, and systems support related to hazard monitoring, early warning, and anticipatory action. The position will translate weather and climate forecasts, as well as conflict and other non-climate crisis analysis into actionable information to support humanitarian decision-making, risk reduction strategies and initiatives for CRS project & country teams and partners. Through technical accompaniment, guidance, and collaboration, the position contributes to high-quality emergency and DRR programming in line with CRS program quality principles, donor requirements, and humanitarian best practices.

• →Provide technical advisory support to CRS regions and country programs to integrate weather and climate information into risk reduction, early action, anticipatory action (AA), and early warning systems (EWS).
• →Gather, analyze, interpret, and tailor opensource weather and climate science data, as well as non-climate drivers into pragmatic, decision-oriented information for humanitarian programming.
• →Support the design, adaptation, and use of dashboards, visualization tools, monitoring products, and bulletins for regional and country level hazard monitoring and risk analysis.
• →Integrate new sources of weather, climate and other contextual drivers of crisis information into existing humanitarian workflows, focusing on forecasting, risk, and vulnerability.
• →Explain and contextualize uncertainty, probability, and forecast accuracy to non‑technical audiences to support informed decision‑making. 
• →Identify links between weather and climate impacts, livelihood changes, market disruption, and political conflict. Advise technical sector leads on incorporating weather and climate data into sectoral analysis, program design, and response planning.
• →Advise on the development and delivery of tools, guidance, and learning resources to strengthen CRS and partner capacity in hazard monitoring and AA/DRR programming.
• →Contribute to knowledge management by documenting lessons learned, promising practices, and innovations related to hazard monitoring, DRR, and AA, and sharing through CRS technical networks and platforms.

• Master’s degree in meteorology, atmospheric science, remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), environmental engineering, climate risk management, disaster preparedness, or a related field. 
• Experience with and international NGO.
• Experience supporting proposal development, technical inputs, or donor funded project design.
• Located in or able to cover UTC +0 – UTC +4 time zones" preferred.

• Personal Accountability – Consistently takes responsibility for one’s own actions. 
• Acts with Integrity - Consistently models values aligned with CRS Guiding Principles and mission.  Is considered honest.
• Builds and Maintains Trust - Shows consistency between words and actions.
• Collaborates with Others – Works effectively in intercultural and diverse teams.
• Open to Learn – Seeks out experiences that may change perspective or provide an opportunity to learn new things.

• Lead Change – Continually looks for ways to improve the agency through a culture of agility, openness, and innovation.
• Develops and Recognizes Others – Builds the capacity of staff to reach their full potential and enhance team and agency performance.
• Strategic Mindset – Understands role in translating, communicating, and implementing agency strategy and team priorities.