
Senior Infrastructure Consultant
Category | Grade:Professional | EC3Deadline:5 Aug 2026Job ID:37775Posted on:22 Jul 2026
Overview
Advises World Bank teams and clients on resilient roads and urban infrastructure, integrating climate and geohazard risk into policies, designs and investments, guiding diagnostics and assessments, supervising technical assistance and developing tools, standards and capacity for safer infrastructure delivery.
Department: Disaster Management, Solutions and Impact Unit
Languages
Required: English
Desired: French, Spanish or Portuguese
Job Areas
- Engineering & Technical Services
- Climate, Environment & Sustainability
Minimum Experience
8 years
Estimated Salary
Not available
Responsibilities
- Develop tools and knowledge products for resilient infrastructure operations
- Integrate resilience across policy diagnostics, design standards, investments and implementation
- Advise on engineering standards, performance metrics and results frameworks
- Conduct or guide exposure, vulnerability, risk and post-disaster assessments
- Support preparation and implementation of resilient road and drainage investments
- Supervise technical-assistance budgets, consultants, quality and trust-fund reporting
- Advise government, contractor and development-partner stakeholders during country activities
- Deliver capacity building for World Bank and client-country teams
Requirements
- Master degree in civil, geotechnical or hydraulic engineering, disaster-risk management or a related field
- At least eight years of progressively responsible professional experience excluding internships
- Experience assessing vulnerability of road or urban infrastructure and integrating resilience into designs
- Field experience conducting infrastructure assessments, site investigations or design reviews
- International technical-advisory experience across countries or regions
- Excellent written and spoken English
Skills
Resilient infrastructure engineeringClimate-risk integrationGeohazard assessmentRoad and drainage design reviewInfrastructure policy advisoryTechnical-assistance managementGeotechnical engineeringPost-disaster assessmentResults-framework design
Additional info
- Extended Term Consultant appointment funded through a trust fund
- Extended Term appointments have a lifetime maximum of three years