Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd Infrastructure Vice Presidency Globally, one billion people live more than 2 kilometers from all-weather roads, 685 million people lack electricity, and nearly 4 billion people lack internet access. Access to basic infrastructure services is critical for creating economic opportunities for the poor. The Infrastructure (INF) Vice Presidency within the World Bank is charged with developing sustainable solutions to help close infrastructure gaps in developing and emerging economies. It consists of four global departments: Energy Extractives (EEX); the Transport and Logistics Department (KIT); Urban, subnational finance, tourism disaster management, and Global Infrastructure Finance Department (KIUDR). It oversees the Bank's work across energy and transport sectors, urban development, as well as efforts to promote energy transition, low-carbon transportation, livable cities, disaster risk resilience, land management, and quality infrastructure services through public-private partnerships. Infrastructure represents around $110 billion of the Bank’s portfolio. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/infrastructure The Global Unit for Disaster and Risk Management Solutions and Impact (KIUSD) supports low and middle-income countries to understand, manage, and reduce their risks from natural hazards and climate change. Within KIUSD, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) umbrella trust fund is a global partnership that helps low- and middle-income countries better understand and reduce their vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change. GFDRR has 14 Global Technical Programs, which provide grant financing, analytics, and technical assistance to the most vulnerable countries and communities where it will have the greatest positive impact. As a donor-funded program, GFDRR consults regularly with donors and actively strives to maintain and develop new partnerships for increased impact. For more information: https://www.gfdrr.org/en Job Duties and Responsibilities: The Senior Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Specialist will provide technical leadership for the implementation of disaster risk analytics and analytics inputs to broader disaster risk management investments, institutional strengthening, and resilience outcomes. The Senior DRM Specialist will contribute to or lead workstreams including: 1) Rapid post-disaster damage assessments; 2) Hazard and exposure modeling of the built environment; and 3) Quantification and analysis of disaster and climate risk. The role will involve providing high‑quality technical inputs to analytical work, project preparation, and project implementation—such as reviewing and advising on technical studies, contributing to project design, participating in field missions and virtual engagements with client governments. The Senior DRM Specialist will work in close collaboration with Task Team Leaders and core staff of the Global Unit for Disaster and Risk Management Solutions and Impact (KIUSD), under the overall supervision of the KIUSD Practice Manager. Specific tasks include: • Lead and coordinate key initiatives under the Disaster Risk Analytics program and knowledge service delivery to task teams in the regions, including but not limited to disaster risk assessments (hazard, exposure and vulnerability assessments), rapid post disaster assessments, disaster loss analytics and the development of disaster loss databases, ensuring the assessments are technically robust. • Lead and participate in developing methodologies, analytical tools and databases to better understand and track various aspects of the exposure of the built environment to natural hazards. In addition to developing historical, current and future analyses, the candidate will lead development of databases tools and scalable methods to quantify value of physical assets at the national and city level as well as for different sectors. • Contribute to develop analytical disaster risk products related to KIUSD different thematic areas including technical collaborations with WBG institutions such as IFC and MIGA. • Lead and participate in documenting the benefits of resilience to disaster and climate-related risks interventions and policies and the possible synergies and tradeoffs that resilience interventions entertain with other public objectives (poverty reduction, welfare). • Support regional task teams in translating analytical findings into actionable investments and policy recommendations for clients under World Bank Projects. • Support capacity building and knowledge transfer efforts for clients and World Bank teams, in the implementation and procurement of risk assessments, and translating them into best practices of multi-hazard risk reduction and preparedness. • Provide technical support and quality assurance to client engagements and World Bank operations, including technical reviews, project preparation and implementation support, capacity building, and results monitoring. Engage as necessary, to define with the task teams the technical requirements for activities in Disaster Risk Management Technical Assistance, and identify terms of reference, international experts or institutions that can support the activity. • Develop and strengthen strategic partnerships across the World Bank Group, development partners, donors, academia, and technical institutions to advance KIUSD's analytical and operational agenda. Represent KIUSD and the World Bank in corporate initiatives, technical forums, and external engagements as appropriate. • Facilitate coordination of related programs within the Infrastructure Vice-Presidential Unit and the World Bank in general. • Carry out other tasks relevant to support the overall objective of the position.