Categories: Vacancies, April 2026

Disaster Risk Management Officer

Location: Any country where Tearfund is registered and legally able to employ staff.

Organization: Tearfund

Deadline: 20 May 2025

Job Description

Are you driven to make a real difference in the lives of communities affected by disasters?

Tearfund’s Disaster Risk Management Team is looking for a passionate and skilled Disaster Risk Management Officer to help shape innovative, forward-thinking solutions in disaster preparedness and response.

If you have experience in Disaster Risk Management (DRM), capacity strengthening, Anticipatory Action (AA), and Disaster Risk Financing (DRF)—and you’re excited by new approaches to humanitarian finance—this is your opportunity to contribute to meaningful change.

Do you have:

Experience in directly supporting emergency response and disaster risk management work, particularly in disaster preparedness?
Experience of project administration within a relief or fragile states context?
Budget and finance experience?
Proposal and report writing?
Working alongside partners?
Experience working in diverse, multicultural teams?

Can you:

Plan, prioritise and organise multiple work tasks under tight timelines and in close cooperation with multiple stakeholders?
Grasp complex new concepts quickly?
Self manage and work independently as well as in a team?
Bring us skills in project design, review and analysis?
Be analytical, with a strong eye for detail?
Be diplomatic and strong interpersonal skills?
Bring computer literacy?
Be fluent in English?

Poverty is not God’s plan. You are. We believe that we all play a part in ending extreme poverty and using our God-given skills to make a difference.

Do your skills, experience and passion match the above? Then we’d love to hear from you!

Location: This is a permanent contract global role and can be based in any country where Tearfund is registered and legally able to employ staff.

Salary: Salary will be market related and dependent on where the role is based.

Travel: Applicants must be willing to travel (up to 8 weeks per year) and should have excellent written and spoken English.

Hybrid working in the UK: This role is eligible for hybrid working in the UK and you will be required to work from the Teddington Tearfund office and from your home by agreement with the line manager.

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and those from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds (in our UK workforce) as these groups are currently under-represented at Tearfund.

All applicants must be committed to Tearfund’s Christian beliefs.

The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.

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