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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 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 provides 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.

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GFDRR’s Disaster-FCV Nexus Thematic Area, launched in 2018, provides operational support, strategic guidance, and global public goods to address the compounding challenges of disasters in Fragile, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) settings. Brussels serves as a strategic hub for engagement with the European Union, international organizations, and regional partners, making it an ideal location for advancing GFDRR’s work on the disaster-FCV nexus. For more information, please visit: KIUSD is seeking a Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist Extended Term Consultant (ETC) to provide strategic, technical, and operational leadership to GFDRR’s Disaster-FCV Nexus Thematic Area and to help integrate FCV analytics and understanding into USTDM business solutions. The ETC will lead complex analytical and operational engagements, support World Bank task teams and client governments in FCV-affected contexts, advance the integration of conflict/fragility-sensitive approaches across disaster and climate resilience investments and other USTDM business lines, and contribute to the evolution of global knowledge, tools, partnerships, and operational practices at the intersections of infrastructure investments with disasters, climate change, fragility, conflict, and violence. Job Duties and Responsibilities The role will include the following objectives:

• Provide strategic and technical leadership to GFDRR’s Disaster-FCV Nexus Thematic Area and FCV related advisory work for USTDMs core business and FCV countries, advancing conflict-sensitive disaster risk management and climate resilience across analytical, advisory, and operational engagements.
• Lead GFDRR’s analytical, advisory, and partnership work on the disaster-FCV nexus, and co-lead operational analytics and advisory for FCV adaption of USTDM business including knowledge generation, policy dialogue, and capacity building.
• Foster and manage strategic technical partnerships with EU institutions, regional bodies, and other stakeholders in Brussels and beyond.

The role will include the following tasks

Technical and Analytical Support

• Lead and/or technically oversee Disaster-FCV diagnostics, assessments, methodologies, operational guidance, and knowledge products, ensuring methodological rigor, conflict sensitivity, operational relevance, and consistency across outputs.
• Lead the preparation and quality assurance of high-level technical notes, policy briefs, methodologies, operational guidance, and strategic presentations for senior management, operational teams, donors, and external partners.
• Lead the mainstreaming of FCV-sensitive approaches across GFDRR’s thematic areas, including nature-based solutions, early warning systems, and resilient infrastructure. Operational Support
• Provide senior technical advice and hands-on operational support to World Bank task teams and client governments on the design, implementation, and monitoring of FCV-sensitive DRM and climate resilience investments, including analytical inputs, implementation arrangements, results frameworks, indicators, and operational missions.
• Design and technically lead capacity-development, advisory, and peer-learning engagements for governments, development partners, and operational teams.
• Contribute to reporting requirements, including progress updates, donor reports, and knowledge products. Knowledge Management
• Synthesize operational lessons and evidence from World Bank and partner engagements into practical guidance, methodologies, tools, and knowledge products that support operational scale-up and institutional learning.