Disaster Risk Financing (DRF) Specialist

The Disaster Risk Financing Specialist supports the design and operationalization of DRF systems, ensuring alignment with national response and public financial management systems. The role involves regional engagement, technical advisory support, monitoring and accountability, and capacity strengthening to advance the DRF agenda in the Pacific region.

Responsibilities

• Support the design and operationalization of DRF systems, including mechanisms for the effective use of insurance payouts and contingency financing, aligned with national response and public financial management systems.
• Strengthen end-to-end systems linking early warning, triggers, financing, and delivery, ensuring assistance is timely, predictable, and scalable across shock scenarios.
• Ensure alignment with national systems and WFP priorities, including strategic sequencing and optimization of multiple funding streams to enhance efficiency and coherence.
• Foster and deepen collaboration with PCRIC and other key actors, such as other UN agencies, to advance the DRF agenda in the Pacific.
• Contribute to regional DRF frameworks (e.g. CAT risk policy) by collecting and providing technical inputs and strengthening linkages between financing instruments, early warning systems, and delivery mechanisms.
• Develop local and regional operational plans, linking DRF with anticipatory action frameworks, preparedness plans for response mechanisms and adaptive social protection systems.
• Provide technical advice on trigger parameters, payout structures, and risk layering approaches, and support coordination with regional partners to strengthen analytics, risk modelling, and preparedness planning.
• Develop the DRF architecture in the Pacific, based on methodology developed by WFP.
• Support Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFM), including operationalization of inclusive and accessible feedback systems, and promote accountability and continuous learning.
• Support in post-distribution monitoring (PDM), After-Action Reviews (AARs) and any simulation exercises to assess effectiveness, coverage and operational readiness.
• Ensure good evidence is generated and DRF corporate indicators are properly reported in WFP systems.
• Strengthen the capacity of government institutions and WFP teams on DRF through targeted technical assistance, training and knowledge transfer.
• Support coordination platforms, technical working groups and stakeholder engagement to promote risk-informed decision-making, ownership and sustainability of systems.

Requirements

• Support the design and operationalization of DRF systems, including mechanisms for the effective use of insurance payouts and contingency financing, aligned with national response and public financial management systems.
• Strengthen end-to-end systems linking early warning, triggers, financing, and delivery, ensuring assistance is timely, predictable, and scalable across shock scenarios.
• Ensure alignment with national systems and WFP priorities, including strategic sequencing and optimization of multiple funding streams to enhance efficiency and coherence.
• Foster and deepen collaboration with PCRIC and other key actors, such as other UN agencies, to advance the DRF agenda in the Pacific.
• Contribute to regional DRF frameworks (e.g. CAT risk policy) by collecting and providing technical inputs and strengthening linkages between financing instruments, early warning systems, and delivery mechanisms.
• Develop local and regional operational plans, linking DRF with anticipatory action frameworks, preparedness plans for response mechanisms and adaptive social protection systems.
• Provide technical advice on trigger parameters, payout structures, and risk layering approaches, and support coordination with regional partners to strengthen analytics, risk modelling, and preparedness planning.
• Develop the DRF architecture in the Pacific, based on methodology developed by WFP.
• Support Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFM), including operationalization of inclusive and accessible feedback systems, and promote accountability and continuous learning.
• Support in post-distribution monitoring (PDM), After-Action Reviews (AARs) and any simulation exercises to assess effectiveness, coverage and operational readiness.
• Ensure good evidence is generated and DRF corporate indicators are properly reported in WFP systems.
• Strengthen the capacity of government institutions and WFP teams on DRF through targeted technical assistance, training and knowledge transfer.
• Support coordination platforms, technical working groups and stakeholder engagement to promote risk-informed decision-making, ownership and sustainability of systems.

Skills

• Disaster Risk Financing
• Insurance Payout Mechanisms
• Contingency Financing
• Public Financial Management
• Early Warning Systems
• Trigger Parameter Design
• Risk Layering Approaches
• Risk Modelling
• Preparedness Planning
• Anticipatory Action Frameworks
• Adaptive Social Protection
• Operational Plan Development
• Community Feedback Mechanisms
• Post-distribution monitoring
• After-Action Reviews
• Simulation Exercises Facilitation
• Technical Advisory
• Capacity Strengthening
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Monitoring and Reporting

Languages

English