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Lead Disaster Risk Management Specialist
Organization World Bank GroupLocation Washington, DC, United StatesPosted 14 May 2026Deadline 30 May 2026
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Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank consists of two entities – the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). It is a global development cooperative owned by 189 member countries. As the largest development bank in the world, the World Bank provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries, and coordinates responses to regional and global challenges. For more information, please visit www.worldbank.org . Infrastructure Vertical The WBG Infrastructure Vertical provides public and private solutions to operational teams and clients across the WBG to produce scalable impact. Its mandate is to deliver knowledge for impact to support the WBG to achieve its goals in support of our mission and specifically: providing guidance on creating more and better jobs by: (i) supporting foundational infrastructure and human capital, (ii) policy environment, and (iii) enabling and mobilizing private sector capital. With 60 years of experience, the WBG is poised to support the sector becoming an engine of growth and jobs through improving policies and governance, foundational infrastructure and private sector investments. The WBG lending in the sector is expected to grow substantially. The Infrastructure VPU’s objectives in driving outcomes include replicating and scaling effective solutions, enhancing thought leadership and innovation, and delivering timely knowledge to client teams. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/infrastructure The Disaster Management, Solutions Impact Unit (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 supports analytics and technical assistance to governments in 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 About the Position The KIUSD is recruiting a Lead Disaster Risk Management Specialist to support the strategic and technical direction of the Unit’s work and services on Disaster Risk Analytics, including but not limited to: 1) rapid post-disaster damage assessments, 2) hazard exposure modeling of the built environment, 3) quantification of disaster risk, and 4) economics of resilience. The Lead Disaster Risk Management Specialist will mentor and coach other staff and support the Practice Manager and broader unit leadership team in developing and cultivating relationships with internal and external clients, supporting task teams across the range of corporate, operational, and technical tasks related with Disaster Risk Analytics. The Lead Disaster Risk Management Specialist will be based in Washington D.C and reporting to the KIUSD Practice Manager. The Lead DRM Specialist is expected to demonstrate the highest collaborative competencies, working with colleagues across the range of technical areas within the unit and, equally importantly, from other Global Practices and Bank corporate units. Roles and Responsibilities Specific tasks include: • Provide analytical guidance and leadership for the Urban, Subnational Finance, Tourism Disaster Management Global Department and KIUSD staff, including supporting countries in their disaster risk management efforts to provide better evidence-based decision-making tools, knowledge and information. • Mentor and guide teams in all aspects related to Disaster Risk Analytics design and knowledge service delivery to task teams in the regions, including but not limited to rapid post disaster assessments, and the development of country and sector-based disaster risk profiles. • Lead/initiate/participate in developing tools and databases to better understand and track various aspects of the exposure of the built environment to natural hazards. In addition to developing tools and scalable methods to quantify value of physical assets at the national and city level as well as for different sectors. • Lead/initiate/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). • Collaborate and engage with internal partners to identify cooperation opportunities and leverage financial and intellectual resources to complement KIUSD resources. • Engage with external political, donor, and technical partners representing KIUSD and when applicable the Bank. • Represent Urban, Subnational Finance, Tourism Disaster Management Global Department in all aspects of disaster risk analytics, including by contributing to corporate, regional, and department level initiatives when requested and representing the Bank in events, as needed.
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