Deadline: September 26, 2025
Applications are open for the World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) Risk Data Fellows Program 2025-2026. 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.
Benefits
- 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.
Eligibility
- For this second cohort, fellows will be selected from the following FCV countries (nationals or residents): Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Kosovo, Lebanon, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, São Tomé and Príncipe, Republic of Zimbabwe.
- Risk Data Fellows will be selected based on their data skills, climate and disaster risk skills, and willingness to support their communities.
Application
For more information, visit World Bank GFDRR Risk Data Fellows Program.
