Senior Leadership Team - Associate Director

Job Description

We need different perspectives and expertise to generate disaster risk financing solutions that work. We are deliberately multidisciplinary. Our talented team comprises experts in risk management, actuarial science, client services, public financial management, economics, risk modelling, finance, social protection, global policy and strategic communications, humanitarian delivery, and gender and inclusion.

The Centre is recruiting for two Associate Director roles in the Senior Leadership Team. These leadership roles will be critical to our next stage of organisational growth as we aim to tackle the impact of climate change and the increasing frequency of disasters around the world. We invite applications from individuals with a strong track record across two or more thematic areas:

• Evidence, learning and thought leadership
• Policy engagement
• Partnerships
• Communications
• Advice
• Training

The roles require an understanding of the international development environment; and significant expertise and established networks in disaster risk or climate financing or a relevant field. The job description is available here.

The position is offered in the UK with regular visits to our central London office. Other locations may be considered. The gross salary range is £75,000 to £95,0000.

The deadline for applications is 11:59 pm (UK time) on Monday 24th of March.

About the Organization

The Centre for Disaster Protection works to prevent disasters devastating lives, by helping people, countries, and organisations change how they plan and pay for disasters. We focus on disaster risk financing to help ensure that money and plans are in place before a disaster strikes, so that the poorest and most vulnerable people are better protected. We are committed to work in partnerships across sectors and geographies to drive more impactful and more equitable disaster risk finance that leaves no one behind. Specifically, through a focus on:

• Delivering excellent client outcomes and promoting lasting disaster risk finance expertise. We provide clients with impartial and evidence-based advice, quality assurance and training that meets their needs and drives more effective disaster risk finance.
• Quality evidence and learning. We work to strengthen the evidence base for prearranged financing and document and share what shows the greatest potential to achieve system change. 
• Impactful communications and global policy engagement. We seek to engage and influence through evidence-led policy and inclusive policy dialogue that bridges both ‘local to global’ and the humanitarian development climate nexus, targeting the bottlenecks key to effect transformative change of the international crisis financing architecture.

Additionally, we are focused on building effective systems and processes for people and operations that support the Centre to rapidly, yet strategically, scale and grow in a way that supports our people to do their best work through safe challenge, promoting and integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The Centre is funded with UK aid through the UK government. Read more about our strategy (2022-2025) and find out more at www.disasterprotection.org.

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