Technical Advisor II-Hazard Monitoring

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

Note: Position is contingent on funding.

Project Overview

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.

Job Summary

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.

Roles Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. Catholic Relief Services works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality.  Catholic Relief Services’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peacebuilding.  We welcome as a part of our staff people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to serving those in need. CRS’ processes and policies reflect our commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.

CRS welcomes candidates from the countries and regions in which we work. In the event the successful candidate is an expatriate, the anticipated duration of the assignment is informed by a term limit, based on the type and level of the job and the needs of the agency.

CRS is committed to safeguarding program participants, community members, staff and volunteers from all forms of exploitation and abuse.  The successful candidate is expected to sign and adhere to CRS´ Code of Conduct.

CRS talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding the rights and dignity of all people - especially children and vulnerable adults - to live free from abuse and harm.

Disclaimer:  This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position. 

CRS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

General Requirements

CRS offers are contingent on the selected candidate’s ability to legally work where the position is to be performed. Every government has a unique set of work permit eligibility requirements.  All positions requiring residence or frequent travel outside a home country must undergo and clear a pre-employment medical clearance; some work permit processes require clearing a separate government administered medical examination.

CRS prioritizes candidates who are citizens/ permanent residents of the countries where we have CRS offices.