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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 https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd Background 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 Unit Description 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 In recent years, there has been increasing demand from governments to address emergency preparedness and response (EP R) as a core development issue. The challenges posed by climate change including more intense storms, heat waves, droughts, extreme flooding, and rising sea levels, are significantly altering the types and magnitudes of hazards faced by communities, often exacerbating existing situations of fragility, conflict, or violence (FCV). As disasters become more frequent and severe, gaps in EP R capacity can undermine government credibility, impede public safety, and delay stabilization and recovery efforts. In recognition of this growing challenge, the Global Program for EP R was established in 2016 under GFDRR and is currently managed by KIUSD. The program strengthens government capacities to prepare for and respond to emergencies by supporting legal and institutional frameworks, personnel training, infrastructure, and information technology. It provides technical support to World Bank task teams and governments to institutionalize EP R investments, supports the operationalization of Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO) and other contingent financing instruments, and helps country teams enhance national EP R capabilities. To meet growing demand, the program is also developing AI-assisted tools to conduct EP R assessments more efficiently and strengthen institutional readiness across diverse contexts. The Disaster Management, Solutions Impact Unit (KIUSD) is seeking a senior Emergency Preparedness and Response (EP R) Extended Term Consultant (ETC) to provide strategic and technical leadership to the Global EP R Program. The ETC will lead complex analytical, operational, and capacity building activities; support World Bank task teams and client governments; and contribute to the evolution of global EP R practice, tools, and partnerships. Duties and Responsibilities: The role will include the following objectives: Leading the development of high-quality EP R knowledge products, diagnostics, guidance notes, and analytical outputs that directly inform World Bank operations and investments Providing senior-level technical advice to client governments and World Bank task teams on the design, implementation, and monitoring of EP R investments and crisis preparedness activities. Fostering and managing strategic technical partnerships across Global Practices, corporate units, and external institutions, while contributing to KIUSD program management and visibility. Leading and/or technically overseeing EP R assessments and knowledge products, ensuring methodological rigor and operational relevance. Providing hands-on and advisory support to global task teams and clients, including supervision of technical studies, inputs to project documents, indicator development, and participation in missions. Designing and delivering technical assistance programs to strengthen national and subnational EP R and crisis preparedness systems, including simulations, tabletop exercises, and other participatory learning activities with client governments. Supporting the preparation and implementation of crisis preparedness technical activities to be carried out by client counterparts or other experts and ensuring integration of EP R into broader multi-hazard risk reduction strategies and disaster and crisis management frameworks. Where necessary, discuss and define with the task teams the technical requirements for requested support, and identify terms of reference, international experts or institutions that can support the activity. Cultivating and advancing partnerships with firms, consultants, external institutions, and internal World Bank teams for the co-development of new products, support to operational task teams, and advancement of the field of EP R. Contributing to thought leadership and internal/external communications (blogs, briefs, presentations). Contributing to programmatic outputs, including results monitoring, reporting, budgeting, and branding. Facilitate coordination with related programs within the Infrastructure Vice-Presidential Unit and the World Bank in general. Contributing to the work of GFDRR teams, facilitating team building, learning, knowledge sharing, and collaboration. Performing other duties as assigned by EP R Program Leads, the KIUSD Practice Manager, or Unit Management.