The Risk Data Fellows program is a 6-month work placement position for climate and disaster risk professionals (data scientists, geospatial analysts, and similar) from selected climate-vulnerable countries, offering the opportunity to work directly with World Bank Operations to access, create, and communicate climate risk knowledge to their communities.
The Fellowship program aims to bridge the knowledge gap on disaster and climate risk by empowering vulnerable countries with the necessary tools, methodologies, and support to generate and communicate their disaster and climate risk data.
Following the success of the first cohort, the Digital Earth Team, in partnership with the Disaster-FCV Nexus, is launching the recruitment of the second cohort of Risk Data Fellows, this time focusing on Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations (FCV) countries.
The fellowship program will offer an initial 6-month (75-day) placement for early career professionals to work at the nexus of data science and disaster risk management on selected World Bank projects in climate-vulnerable countries. The Project Task Team to which the Fellow is assigned may fund a second six-month contract, based on the Fellow's performance.
For this second cohort, fellows will be selected from the following FCV countries of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East:
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo, Democratic Republic of
- Congo, Republic of
- Ethiopia
- Guinea-Bissau
- Iraq
- Kosovo
- Lebanon
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Syrian Arab Republic
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Zimbabwe
During this time, fellows will work part-time as World Bank Short-Term Consultants (STC). They will apply their data science skills to World Bank Advice and Analytics or Financing activities. The expected outcomes are increased availability, dissemination, and use of climate risk knowledge in climate-vulnerable cities and countries.
Risk Data Fellows will be selected based on their data skills, climate and disaster risk skills, and willingness to support their communities. They will receive training and hands-on support throughout the project to learn about World Bank activities and innovative technologies in their domain and contribute to improving climate risk analysis.
To learn more about the first cohort of Risk Data Fellows, please watch the following short video: GFDRR Risk Data Fellows 2023—Impacting their Communities.
The Risk Data Fellows is a program supported by the Swiss Re Foundation and executed by the Digital Earth team at GFDRR.
More information and how to apply: Risk Data Fellows / Short Term Consultant (STC) / Terms of Reference