Disaster Risk Management Consultant

What you'll need: 

• Education: Minimum Master's Degree. Academic knowledge in disaster risk management, disaster response, recovery, or reconstruction is required.
• Experience: At least 15 years of experience in disaster risk management, damage estimation, post-disaster damage and loss assessment, disaster response, recovery, and/or reconstruction.  
• Languages: Proficiency in English written and oral.

 Key skills: 

• Learn continuously.
• Collaborate and share knowledge
• Focus on clients
• Communicate and influence
• Innovate and try new things

 Requirements:

• Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries.
• Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab.
• COVID-19 considerations: the health and safety of our employees are our number one priority. As a condition of employment, IDB/IDB Invest requires all new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Type of contract and duration:

• Type of contract: Products and External Services Consultant (PEC), Lump Sum, including one travel to The Bahamas (4 days).
• Length of contract: from January 2025 to March 2025. Continuous for a total of three (3) months.

What we offer:

• The IDB group provides benefits that respond to the different needs and moments of an employee’s life. These benefits include:
• A competitive compensation package
• A flexible way of working. You will be evaluated by deliverable. 

Our culture:

At the IDB Group we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work, willing to try new approaches without fear, and where they are accountable and rewarded for their actions.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are at the center of our organization. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and encourage women, LGBTQ+ people, persons with disabilities, Afro-descendants, and Indigenous people to apply.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job interview process. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at diversity@iadb.org  to request reasonable accommodation to complete this application.

Our Human Resources Team reviews carefully every application.

About the IDB Group:

The IDB Group, composed of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), IDB Invest, and the IDB Lab offers flexible financing solutions to its member countries to finance economic and social development through lending and grants to public and private entities in Latin America and the Caribbean.

About IDB:

We work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, we help improve health and education and advance infrastructure. Our aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way. With a history dating back to 1959, today we are the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide loans, grants, and technical assistance; and we conduct extensive research. We maintain a strong commitment to achieving measurable results and the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability.

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