Analyst – Financial Sector At Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

Organization

Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)

Posting date

4 July 2023

Location

New Delhi, CDRI Secretariat

Grade

Analyst

Salary and benefits

Salary will be offered commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Contract

Fixed Term Contract (3 years), Full-Time, National Hire, initially 3 years of Fixed Term Contract. The contract may be extended for 3 more Years based on the suitability of the candidate.

Occupational groups

Disaster Risk Finance, Infrastructure Finance, Public Finance Policies, Risk Modelling and assessments, Sustainable Finance, Climate Finance, Economic Modelling, and Indirect loss assessment

Last date of Application

18 July 2023

Why you should apply:

CDRI aims to develop comprehensive knowledge and policy guidelines to influence global practices on building Financial and Infrastructure Resilience. In this role, the Analyst will have opportunities to work with national and state-level policymakers, World Bank, UNDP, and other CDRI partners. The role will provide a unique experience for building a career in Infrastructure Finance and Disaster Risk Financing related policy making.

About CDRI:

The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is a partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and knowledge institutions that aims to promote the resilience of new and existing infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks in support of sustainable development.

Vision

“CDRI seeks to rapidly expand the development and retrofit of resilient infrastructure to respond to the SDG of expanding universal access to basic services, enabling prosperity and decent work.”

Mission

“To support countries to upgrade their systems to ensure disaster and climate resilience of existing and future infrastructure.”

CDRI Head Quarter (Secretariat)

The CDRI headquarter is established in New Delhi, India, to act as the Secretariat of CDRI. The Secretariat functions under the direction of the International Governing Council and implements the programmes of CDRI.

The objective of this position:

CDRI has the Finance for Resilient Infrastructure Programme (FRIP) to support governments in developing policy, building local capacity, and acquiring the technical know-how to work towards Financing resilient infrastructure post and pre-disaster scenarios. CDRI also brings together partners like World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and developmental agencies from different countries to support the programme.

Under this programme, CDRI has launched three studies, two studies at the sub-national and national level to do an assessment of fiscal risks due to disasters in critical infrastructures and a study on the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) of India to assess contractual documents from the infrastructure resilience perspective. The Analyst will primarily support the Secretariat in implementing this programme.

Role and Responsibilities:

The Analyst will support activities of the CDRI, including but not limited to:

• All the programmes and activities of CDRI are structured under Strategic Objectives, which also define key performance areas and indicators. The Analyst will contribute to aligning the programme activities with CDRI’s Strategic Objectives.
• Project management and coordination for implementation of Finance for Resilient Infrastructure Programme.
• Provide technical expertise in Risk Transfer, Risk Assessment, Infrastructure Finance, Disaster Risk Finance, and Sustainable Finance related initiatives.
• Provide system-level consideration in different aspects of the programme.
• Conduct a landscape analysis for the financial resilience of asset owners and governments in different hazard contexts and support risk and resilience assessment.
• Support design Terms of Reference/contracts for different work packages in the programme.
• Coordinate the technical and high-level committees the governments appoint and oversee the programme.
• Conceptualize and organize various outreach, consultation, training, and advocacy activities to support the programme and ensure high quality.
• Coordinate closely with the specialists from CDRI and its partner organizations to achieve programme objectives.
• While this role is focused on Finance for Resilient Infrastructure, Analyst is expected to provide need-based support and technical input related to the financial sector to other programmes of CDRI, and appropriate responsibilities, as assigned.

Skill Set:

Essential

• Demonstrated awareness in some domains such as public finance, disaster risk financing, climate finance, and sustainable finance.
• Demonstrated skills in some competencies like literature review, development of research problems, research approaches, research methods, quantitative or qualitative methods, and interpretation of results.
• Experience should include some areas like- conducting research, organizing training programmes, field studies, risk and vulnerability assessment, and developmental programmes with the government or community in relevant areas.
• Basic understanding of technical skills in fields relevant to CDRI.
• Strong networking and project management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Suitable computer proficiency, especially related to professional office software packages (Microsoft Office, Presentation, documentation, etc.).

Desirable

• Familiarity with international frameworks like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction.
• Experience working on strengthening financial and infrastructure resilience.
• Experience in writing reports for national/state/community-level development projects.
• Experience as a trainer in infrastructure risk and resilience.
• Experience in developing risk and resilience frameworks, guidelines, SOPs and handbooks.
• Published research papers in national/international peer-reviewed publications and national and international conferences.
• Experience in sectors related to disaster risk reduction and climate change.
• Experience developing concept notes and research proposals and researching disaster and climate resilience.
• Experience working with government agencies.
• Experience in undertaking vulnerability assessment of infrastructure systems, rapid and detailed post-disaster analysis, developing retrofitting solutions, etc.

Qualifications:

Education Criteria

• Graduation or post-graduation in disciplines of Economics, Finance, Sustainable Development, Risk Management, Insurance, or research fields relevant to CDRI.

Experience Criteria

• Minimum 6 years (for Bachelor) / 4 years (for Master) experience in a relevant position at the national or international level. Specific experience in infrastructure resilience and disaster risk reduction within infrastructure sectors would be given additional weightage.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English.
• Knowledge of any of the UN official languages will be an asset.