Disaster Risk Management Expert – Global Roster

The Disaster Risk Management Expert may support STOOS assignments through technical advisory, research, training, and evaluation tasks, including:

Conducting disaster risk, vulnerability, capacity, and resilience assessments at national, sub-national, community, or institutional levels.

Designing or reviewing DRR, preparedness, contingency, response, recovery, and resilience frameworks.

Supporting the development of data collection tools, analytical frameworks, training materials, and assessment methodologies related to disaster risk management.

Facilitating training sessions, workshops, simulations, after-action reviews, and capacity building activities for government actors, NGOs, community structures, and local partners.

Contributing to programme evaluations, baseline/endline studies, needs assessments, and third-party monitoring assignments related to DRM, DRR, climate resilience, and emergency response.

Analysing disaster risks with attention to gender, age, disability, protection, social inclusion, conflict sensitivity, environmental risks, and local coping capacities.

Preparing practical reports, technical briefs, recommendations, and action plans that support risk-informed programming and decision-making.

Candidates should have strong professional experience in disaster risk management, disaster risk reduction, emergency preparedness, climate resilience, humanitarian response, recovery, or resilience programming.

Applicants are encouraged to apply if they have worked with UN agencies, INGOs, NGOs, government institutions, civil protection authorities, Red Cross/Red Crescent actors, donor-funded programmes, consulting firms, academic institutions, or community-based organizations.

Strong candidates will demonstrate practical experience in risk assessments, capacity building, training facilitation, institutional strengthening, emergency preparedness planning, resilience analysis, field research, evaluations, or technical advisory work.

Knowledge of relevant frameworks and approaches such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, anticipatory action, early warning and early action, community-based disaster risk management, climate adaptation, humanitarian principles, Do No Harm, safeguarding, and accountability to affected populations is highly desirable.

Experience using tools such as KoboToolbox, ODK, GIS, remote sensing, Excel, SPSS, Power BI, Tableau, or other risk mapping and data analysis platforms is considered an asset.

Interested candidates are invited to submit their updated CV through the application link below. The CV should clearly indicate the candidate’s DRM/DRR expertise, countries of experience, technical sectors covered, training and facilitation experience, language skills, availability, and previous work with humanitarian or development actors.