Disaster Risk Management Associate

Overview

The Disaster Risk Management Associate will support FAO’s regional disaster resilience team in Bangkok with a focus on the regional El Niño portfolio. The role involves coordination, information management, knowledge products, and operational follow-up.

Key Responsibilities

• Support information management for FAO’s regional 2026/27 El Niño work, including maintaining action trackers, country updates, timelines, meeting records and follow-up actions.
• Support the consolidation and presentation of climate, drought, heat-risk, agricultural and operational information into concise regional updates, briefing notes, dashboards, presentations and decision-support products.
• Assist with coordination of routine El Niño monitoring and preparedness processes, including scheduling and preparing meetings, compiling inputs, recording decisions and following up agreed actions.
• Contribute to knowledge management and evidence building by organizing project documentation, implementation records, monitoring information and lessons from anticipatory action interventions, and supporting preparation of After-Action Reviews and evidence products.
• Support communication and knowledge-sharing on El Niño preparedness and anticipatory action, including drafting accessible internal updates, talking points, summaries and materials for regional partners and events.
• Assist with regional coordination and learning processes, including engagement with ASEAN partners and the Asia-Pacific Technical Working Group on Early Warnings and Anticipatory Action, and support the preparation and documentation of work-shops, consultations and learning events.
• Support other related disaster resilience, early warning and anticipatory action tasks as required.
• Contribute to exploring practical applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for climate and agricultural risk analysis, including organizing and preparing datasets, testing AI-assisted approaches for synthesizing and visualizing information, documenting use cases and limitations, and supporting the responsible use of emerging tools for impact forecasting, early warning and anticipatory action.

Required Experience

1 month

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Sciences, International Relations, Geography, Environmental Science or Environmental Engineering, Climate Science, Journalism and Communication, Information Management, Public Administration, Computer Science, Electronic Information-related disciplines, or another relevant field.

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