Program Manager, Climate Mitigation

## **A.** **About Asian Disaster Preparedness Center**

The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) is an autonomous international organization established for scientific, educational, developmental, and humanitarian purposes with a vision of safer communities and sustainable development through disaster risk reduction and climate resilience in Asia and the Pacific.

Established in 1986 as a technical capacity-building center, ADPC has grown and diversified its expertise across social and physical sciences envisioning safer communities and sustainable development through disaster risk reduction. Being an autonomous international organization governed by Board of Trustees. It supports sustainable solutions for disaster risk reduction across a broad range of specialist areas, with a wide range of professional expertise from atmospheric scientists to social scientists with experiences from all levels of engagement typically required for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Resilience (CR) effectively. ADPC’s Strategy 2030 guides the organization in providing comprehensive risk reduction support to countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific with various programs being implemented under 15 strategic themes by three departments, namely the Preparedness and Climate Actions, Risk Analytics and Climate Services, and Risk Governance and Financing.

In addition to these, ADPC also works on three cross-cutting themes: Gender and Diversity, Innovation, and Regional and Transboundary Cooperation through permanent working committees. These activities are supported by proactive individual departments of Finance, Human Resources and Administration. ADPC recognizes the importance of examining the linkages between disaster risk management, poverty reduction, gender equality, sustainability, rights-based approaches, climate change, and regional cooperation. For details, please refer to the ADPC website at http://www.adpc.net/

## **B. Department Introduction:**

The Risk Analytics and Climate Services Department is a multi-disciplinary team of experts committed to providing innovative, science-based solutions for actions to adapt to climate change and mitigate the impacts of disasters. The innovations include uses of geospatial technology, satellite data, numerical models, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence for assessing vulnerability and risk, generating climate data, developing early warning systems, forecasting possible climate impact, and informing anticipatory actions. These lead to risk-informed developments in the sectors such as agriculture, transportation, water resources, and health.

The department also applies advanced geoinformatics and climate analytics to address water and food security by assessing water availability and water use efficiency, monitoring groundwater, assessing drought risks, and optimizing agricultural productivity, hence ensuring sustainable water and food systems in vulnerable regions. The department promotes Nature-Based Solutions by leveraging ecosystem services such as wetland restoration, agroforestry, and green-gray infrastructure to reduce disaster risks and build climate resilience. Lastly, the department produces risk analytics and integrates them into urban plans and engineering designs of critical infrastructures, hence improving their resilience to disasters and climate change.

With a commitment to science-based approach, the department envisions empowering stakeholders to reduce risks, adapt to climate change, and build more resilient communities and ecosystems.

## **C. Statement of Intent:**

The Program Manager’s main responsibility is to act as a lead person on the projects and programs assigned to them. The management responsibility involves both the external and internal functions. Externally, the Program Manager serves as ADPC’s representative for the projects/programs, having constant conversations with clients, partners, stakeholders, and consultants. Internally, the Program Manager manages the staff working on the projects/programs while ensuring that the outputs and outcomes contribute to ADPC’s overall work plan, M&E framework, and strategy.

The Program Manager reports to the Director responsible for the ACS department.

### ***Note:***

It is not the intent of this Position Description to cover every aspect of the position requirements, rather to highlight the most important areas of personal and joint responsibilities.

## **D. Required Qualifications:**

### ***Required Qualifications and Specifications***

- **Education**: Master’s degree in climate science, environmental science or management, remote sensing, natural resource management, or other field related to this position.
- **Experience**: At least 8 years of professional experience focusing on project design/implementation/management and development/implementation of geospatial, satellite remote sensing or other science-based tools; Minimum 3 years of this expe