Overview
Serve as a global technical advisor within KIUSD- Resilient Infrastructure Thematic Area, providing strategic and operational support to World Bank regional teams to strengthen the integration of resilience into infrastructure-related policies, investment operations, and analytical work.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the development of knowledge products and operational toolkit to enhance capacity of task teams to deliver operations related to resilient infrastructure.
- Support the coherent integration of resilience considerations across the policy–investment–analytics continuum.
- Provide advice on resilience engineering standards, performance metrics, indicators, and results frameworks in infrastructure operations.
- Provide technical advice on rapid diagnostics of policies and design of resilient infrastructure, as well as exposure, vulnerability, risk and post-disaster assessments.
- Provide targeted, demand-driven advisory support to regional task teams and client counterparts, focusing on the preparation and implementation of lending operation projects that involve resilient infrastructure activities.
- Liaise with stakeholders across government, contractors, and development partners.
- Oversee the implementation of TA activities including planning, budgeting, preparation of terms of references, quality control, supervision of external consultants and technical specialists work.
- Contribute and support capacity building activities for WBG Task Teams and client countries’ teams involved in resilient infrastructure projects.
- Participate in field missions and provide technical input and guidance to client counterparts.
- Contribute to program deliverables, including preparation of GFDRR communication and dissemination materials, results monitoring, reporting, budgeting, and branding.
- Carry out other tasks relevant to support the overall objective of the position.
Required Experience
A minimum of eight years of progressively responsible professional experience is required (internships excluded). Required experience includes: assessing physical vulnerability of road and urban infrastructure (e.g., landslides, erosion, flooding); and integrating resilience measures into road infrastructure designs. Demonstrated field-based experience conducting infrastructure assessments, site investigations, or design reviews is required. International experience and demonstrated ability to work in diverse, multicultural environments are required.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in civil engineering, geotechnical or hydraulic engineering, or related fields such as Disaster Risk Management, with a strong preference for candidates with solid technical training and hands-on experience, in the design, construction and maintenance of resilient roads and urban infrastructure.
