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 us in our updated strategy (2022-2025) and find out more at www.disasterprotection.org.
We are looking for a Consultant on a fixed-term, full-time basis over 12-months to lead a program of activity to move of the Centre to its future state as a distinct organisation hosted by a not-for-profit entity. The Consultant will lead this work in close collaboration with the Board, FCDO, and the Centre Senior Leadership team.
The Centre has been undertaking work throughout 2024 to look at its Future State across all operational organisational dimensions as part of a near-term goal to transition to a new operating model. This Consultancy will involve designing and rolling-out a program through 2025/2026 to build on the work done so far.
We are seeking to engage a skilled organisational transformation professional to lead this work over a fixed term 12-month period on a full-time basis.
Through this Consultancy, the Centre is seeking a Consultant to support on a full-time, fixed term contract for a 12-month period to provide programme management and stakeholder engagement support to build out the next phase of Future State work.
For this activity, the Consultant will report to the CFOO, and with the oversight of a Board working group. Specific deliverables will be determined upon appointment, in consultation with the CFOO, and partly depending on the Consultant’s skills and experience. Activities will include review of specific aspects of the Centre’s operating model, stakeholder engagement and programme design, and could include:
· Develop a stakeholder engagement plan to engage with candidate host entities and explore different hosting models.
· Provide clear assessment of operational support resource requirements for this future state, including producing/commissioning papers for the Board and its sub-committees.
· Work closely with the CFOO and Centre team to coordinate financial planning for the future state, including leading business case development and value for money analysis.
· Lead development of governance, compliance, HR, finance, risk, stakeholder management, and policies and procedures.
· Work closely with the Managing Agent team to ensure smooth interactions and transition between current and new operational structures and processes with minimised impact on technical delivery, through effective oversight of and collaboration with the Head of Operations and collaboration with the DAI Project Director.
The Consultant will be supported by the Centre team in this exercise, and a first task will be determining the resources required to support under the Consultant’s program leadership.
The Centre team is based in London, and the Consultant will be expected join key meetings in-person at the Centre office. The Consultant is expected to cover any travel costs to London.
The following deliverables and timelines are provided for the assignment:
It is expected that this will be a fixed term full time, to be delivered between May 2025 and May 2026. The below table shows an estimated level of effort per activity/deliverable with an indicative timeline. Timelines and deliverables will be finalised between the Consultant and the Centre team.
Expected deliverable | Indicative timeline |
Organisational transition program | |
· Scoping discussions · Programme design · Programme delivery Specifics to be determined in Consultation with Centre team |
May 2025 – May 2026 |
We are seeking a consultant with the following skills and experience:
· Demonstrated experience of leading programmes for new entity creation and/or spin-outs and/or hosting arrangements and/or transition of organisations to new legal and delivery platforms is required
· Strong programme design and delivery skills.
Application
We invite applications from individuals with the specified skills and experience. Application is in the form of a CV and one-pager detailing how your skills and experience equip you for success in leading this activity. Applications should be submitted to through DAI’s recruitment portal by Sunday 4th of May at 23:59pm.
Fee Rates and Payments
Remuneration will be based on individual experience and skills while, as the Centre is a UK aid-funded project, all rates for consultants and staff are subject to controls.
Payment
Fees will be payable on actual usage of days evidenced by timesheets, subject to completion and approval of key deliverables due at the invoicing point. Any expenses will be paid on actual costs (against receipts) using an agreed invoice and timesheet template.
Negotiation and finalisation of commercial terms
DAI on behalf of the Centre reserves the right to negotiate on any aspects of the proposed costs and payment and is not bound to accept any offer.
DAI Eligibility Criteria
All individual(s) shortlisted will undergo an initial eligibility criteria assessment. This includes vetting of the organisations in line with terrorism checks, company history of improper conduct, any legal acts against the organisation(s) and initial vetting of proposed personnel. Where disqualification factors are discovered, the application may be rejected without notification.
Successful individual(s) will be subject to detailed vetting analysis and relevant reference checks, and, in the case of organisations, also a due diligence assessment through DAI’s Management Capacity Assessment Tool (MCAT). This will include an assessment of:
• Organisational details
• Safeguarding policies, procedures and systems
• Financial management policies, procedures, practises and systems
• Duty of care
• Modern Slavery policies and procedures.
Final award of contract will not be confirmed until these checks are complete.
Intellectual property
Any Foreground Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) arising out of the performance of project will belong to the Managing Agent of the Centre for the purposes of awarding to the Centre perpetual, irrevocable licence to use, sub-licence or commercially exploit such IPRs in the delivery of its mission and likewise to the Centre’s funder, the UK FCDO. The Management Agent, on behalf of the Centre, will provide the Service Provider right to use such IPRs and other Centre IPRs to the extent needed to perform their obligations under this project. IPRs relating to any background intellectual property drawn upon by the Service Provider in delivery of the assignment shall remain with the Service Provider, who will provide the Centre (through its Managing Agent) and FCDO rights to use such intellectual property to the extent it is integrally required to enjoy their rights to use the results of the Project and the foreground IPRs.