Disaster Response Coordinator

Job Title: Disaster Response Coordinator
Department: Program
Reporting Line: Program Manager/Executive Director
Location: Rasuwa/Nuwakot/Dhading and other disaster-affected areas with frequent travel
Level: Coordinator
Required Number: 01

1. Organization Overview:

Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) Founded in 1991, Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) is a national level leading NGO working in Nepal from local to global level with feminist values to support and bridge collective actions for women rights and feminist movement. Together with collaborators from a diverse range of feminist human rights movements and networks, WOREC works to advance the rights of women in diversity. WOREC advocates for affirmative structural and social changes influencing national and international actors. WOREC works for the protection and promotion of women’s human rights and social justice with the campaigns against violence against women, and women’s economic, social and cultural rights.

WOREC is active nation-wide by its presence with central office in Lalitpur, provincial and district offices in 6 provinces. WOREC is currently looking for a dynamic and competent candidate to fulfill the position of Disaster Response Coordinator. The position reports to the Program Manager/Executive Director and is responsible for overall execution ensuring organizational vision, mission, goals and objectives.

2. Position Summary:

The Disaster Response Coordinator will coordinate WOREC’s protection-focused disaster response in flood- and disaster-affected areas, ensuring the safety, dignity, rights, and protection of women, girls, children, adolescents, persons with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups. The position will coordinate field-level response with local government, communities, service providers, partners, and humanitarian actors, and support protection assessments, GBV prevention and response, referrals, community-based protection, and safe/women-friendly spaces. The position will also oversee field coordination, monitoring, documentation, reporting, and learning, applying WOREC’s feminist, gender-responsive, rights-based, survivor-centered, and inclusive approaches.

3. Preferred Discipline / Areas/Specialization:

To coordinate effective, timely, and protection-focused disaster response for women, girls, children, adolescents, and vulnerable and marginalized communities affected by floods and other disasters through protection assessment, prevention and response to violence, referral and support services, community engagement, local-level coordination, and evidence-based response planning.

4. Main Roles & Responsibilities:

R.1. Disaster Response Planning and Coordination:

  • Coordinate the overall implementation of WOREC’s protection-focused disaster response activities in assigned disaster-affected areas.
  • Develop field-level response plans and priorities based on identified protection needs, risks, and available resources.
  • Coordinate timely implementation of response activities in accordance with approved plans, project requirements, and WOREC’s policies and procedures.
  • Regularly assess changing needs and protection concerns and recommend appropriate response actions to the Program Manager.
  • Ensure that disaster response activities are inclusive, participatory, gender-responsive, and accessible to affected communities.
  • Coordinate with relevant WOREC teams to ensure timely administrative, financial, logistical, MEAL, and technical support for response activities.

R.2. Protection Assessment and Risk Identification:

  • Conduct and coordinate rapid protection assessments in flood- and disaster-affected communities to identify the protection needs, risks, and priority concerns of women, girls, children, adolescents, persons with disabilities, older persons, and other vulnerable groups.
  • Monitor, collect, and analyze information on protection risks, including GBV, sexual exploitation and abuse, trafficking, child protection concerns, discrimination, exclusion, unsafe shelters, and barriers to essential services.
  • Document and communicate key protection findings and emerging needs to relevant WOREC teams and stakeholders, and support timely adjustment of response activities based on changing protection risks and priorities.

R.3. Protection from Gender-Based Violence and Violence against Women:

  • Coordinate prevention and response activities related to gender-based violence and violence against women and girls in disaster-affected communities.
  • Ensure that GBV-related concerns identified during the response are handled in a safe, confidential, survivor-centered, and non-discriminatory manner.
  • Strengthen community awareness on GBV prevention, available services, protection mechanisms, and referral pathways.
  • Coordinate with relevant service providers for psychosocial, health, legal, protection, and other required support.
  • Support community-based mechanisms to identify and address protection risks faced by women and girls.
  • Ensure that response activities do not increase the risk of violence, exploitation, abuse, or discrimination.

R.4. Referral, Case Support and Service Linkages:

  • Coordinate and strengthen referral pathways and maintain updated mapping of government and non-government service providers, including health, psychosocial, legal, police, shelter, and other relevant services.
  • Support community mobilizers and staff to identify protection concerns, make appropriate referrals, and ensure timely follow-up while respecting confidentiality, dignity, and survivors’ choices.
  • Ensure referral and case-related information is handled securely and in line with WOREC’s safeguarding, confidentiality, and data protection requirements.

R.5. Women-Friendly and Safe Spaces:

  • Coordinate the establishment, operation, strengthening, and monitoring of safe and women-friendly spaces, ensuring safe, accessible, inclusive, and confidential services.
  • Ensure women, girls, children, and vulnerable groups have meaningful access to information, support, services, and participation, and recommend improvements based on feedback and identified needs.
  • Coordinate and represent WOREC with local government, humanitarian organizations, UN agencies, NGOs, civil society organizations, and other relevant stakeholders in response meetings and forums.
  • Share relevant protection priorities and gaps while maintaining confidentiality, and identify opportunities for collaboration to strengthen service coverage and avoid duplication.

R.8. Field Team Coordination and Capacity Building:

  • Coordinate and provide regular guidance to community mobilizers, field staff, volunteers, and response team members on their roles, responsibilities, and response protocols.
  • Orient and support field teams on protection principles, GBV prevention and response, safeguarding, confidentiality, referral mechanisms, and survivor-centered approaches.
  • Identify capacity-building needs, support relevant training and coaching, and regularly review field performance to ensure quality implementation.

R.9. Monitoring, Documentation and Reporting:

  • Monitor the implementation, quality, coverage, and progress of disaster response and protection activities through regular field visits, follow-up, and verification against plans and targets.
  • Maintain accurate and confidential records and document response activities, protection concerns, referrals, achievements, challenges, good practices, and lessons learned.
  • Prepare timely situation updates and reports, and provide relevant information and evidence to the Program Manager and WOREC teams for decision-making and program improvement.

R.10. Accountability, Safeguarding and Community Feedback:

  • Promote accountability to affected populations through safe and accessible feedback mechanisms, ensuring community concerns and recommendations are documented, communicated, and appropriately followed up.
  • Maintain strict confidentiality and protection of sensitive information, ensuring compliance with WOREC’s safeguarding standards and zero-tolerance approach to violence, exploitation, abuse, harassment, and discrimination, while upholding the dignity, rights, safety, choices, and informed participation of affected people.

R.11. Coordination with MEAL, Finance, Administration and Other Teams:

  • Coordinate with MEAL, Finance, Administration, and relevant WOREC teams for monitoring, data verification, documentation, financial and narrative reporting, procurement, logistics, transportation, and other operational requirements.
  • Provide accurate program information and supporting documents, address operational challenges, and contribute to regular program review and planning based on field evidence and protection needs.

R.12. Advocacy, Learning and Organizational Engagement:

  • Identify and communicate protection gaps and emerging issues, and support WOREC’s advocacy and campaigns on women’s rights, protection, GBV prevention, disaster response, and social justice.
  • Contribute field-based evidence, lessons learned, case studies, good practices, and knowledge products to strengthen WOREC’s disaster response, preparedness, and organizational learning.

4. Required Qualifications and Experience:

  • Master’s degree or equivalent in Disaster Management, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Human Rights, Social Work, Public Health, or related field, with at least 5 years of relevant experience.
  • Additionally Practical experience in humanitarian/disaster response, protection, GBV, community-based protection, referrals, and stakeholder coordination.
  • Strong knowledge of protection, safeguarding, gender-responsive and survivor-centered approaches, with experience in field coordination, team supervision, assessment, and reporting.
  • Willingness to undertake frequent travel and field deployment in disaster-affected areas.

5. Core Competencies:

Strong experience in disaster response, protection, and humanitarian coordination; knowledge of GBV prevention and response, safeguarding, protection, and survivor-centered approaches; strong assessment, planning, monitoring, reporting, communication, stakeholder engagement, team coordination, and problem-solving skills; ability to work effectively under pressure and coordinate with government, humanitarian actors, service providers, communities, and partners; understanding of feminist, gender-responsive, human rights, and social justice approaches; bilingual proficiency and willingness to undertake frequent travel and field deployment.

6. General Responsibilities:

  • Perform other duties and responsibilities related to the position as assigned by the supervisor/management.
  • Maintain confidentiality and integrity of organizational and program information.
  • Comply with WOREC’s policies, procedures, safeguarding standards and organizational values.
  • Demonstrate professional conduct, accountability and respect in all interactions.
  • Contribute to a safe, inclusive, respectful and learning-oriented organizational environment.
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