Disaster Risk Management Expert – Global Roster

As a Disaster Risk Management Expert on STOOS Consulting's global roster, you will:

• Conduct disaster risk, vulnerability, capacity, and resilience assessments at national, sub-national, community, or institutional levels.
• Design or review DRR, preparedness, contingency, response, recovery, and resilience frameworks.
• Support the development of data collection tools, analytical frameworks, training materials, and assessment methodologies related to disaster risk management.
• Facilitate training sessions, workshops, simulations, after-action reviews, and capacity building activities for government actors, NGOs, community structures, and local partners.

This role contributes to reducing disaster risks and building resilience in vulnerable communities, helping to save lives and livelihoods through evidence-based programming and capacity strengthening.

Required qualifications and experience:

• Strong professional experience in disaster risk management, disaster risk reduction, emergency preparedness, climate resilience, humanitarian response, recovery, or resilience programming.
• Experience working 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.
• 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 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.

This is a consultancy/project-based roster position with global opportunities. Compensation is project-dependent and not specified. Benefits include flexible work arrangements and the chance to work with leading humanitarian and development actors.

STOOS Consulting is an international consulting firm specialized in Third-Party Monitoring, MEAL, research and assessments, evaluations, capacity building, conflict and gender analysis, climate resilience, market systems research, and economic empowerment studies. They work with UN agencies, INGOs, NGOs, donors, and development partners to provide evidence-based findings and technical support.