Interim Head of Evidence

**Centre for Disaster Protection**: Interim Head of Evidence**:
**Background**:
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 role**:
Under these terms of reference, we wish to appoint an interim Head of Evidence who will be contributing to portfolio delivery, reporting, and planning for the Centre’s work on one of our four goals:

- **Quality evidence and learning**: We will strengthen the evidence base for prearranged financing and document and share what shows the greatest potential to achieve system change. We will fill in areas of white space in what we know about what works and what doesn’t in the disaster risk financing landscape, translating, and deploying learning and insights through our advisory and engagement, and to inform and shape the global policy agenda.
- with a focus on two evidence-led programmes: ‘Operational learning’ and ‘Effective international support for disaster risk financing’.

**Expected deliverables**:
The interim Head of Evidence will report to the Centre Director and be expected to work closely with the Evidence Program Manager and wider team on the following activities, to be prioritised based on need and the interim Head of Evidence’s availability:
1. Programme management for two evidence-driven programmes:
a. On a quarterly basis advise the Centre Director on the relevance and impact of the publications pipeline, including providing views on gaps and opportunities.

b. Review evidence-related project concept notes submitted under these programmes.

c. Prepare project concept notes under these programmes.

d. Recommend the formation of project teams to deliver specific evidence projects.

e. Provide recommendations on peer review chairs for each publication.

f. Provide recommendations for short
- and medium-term options for investment in evidence under each of these programmes, building on inputs from the evidence team.

g. Provide assessments on the performance of Project Leads for projects within these programmes, to be submitted to line managers.

2. Reporting:
a. Draft inputs to quarterly Board reporting packs on the status of the Centre’s evidence work, progress against logframe, and forward look.

b. Provide comment and input on other Board papers and internal concept notes as requested.

3. Quality enhancement:
a. Act as peer reviewer and/or peer review chair for Centre publications.

4. Work planning and strategy refresh:
a. Synthesise own inputs and inputs from evidence team to proposed 1-year programme of work for the two evidence-drive programmes for workplan year July 2025 - June 2026 for inclusion in the Centre’s 2025/26 workplan, to be submitted to the Board in June 2025.

b. Synthesise own inputs and inputs from evidence team to proposed 5-year programme of work for the period July 2025 - June 2030 for inclusion in the Centre’s 5-year workplan, to be submitted to the Board in June 2025.

c. Synthesise own inputs and inputs from evidence team to inform our updated theory of change and Logframe, to be submitted to the Board in June 2025

5. External representation
- At the request of the Centre Director, attend and present at specific international events on behalf of the Centre, including media engagement.

For all these deliverables the interim Head of Evidence will be required to:

- Uphold the organisation’s values and contribute to a positi