Data Visualisation Consultant
Background to the Centre
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.
The Centre produced its annual flagship report on the State of Pre-arranged Financing (PAF) for Disasters in 2023 and 2024. For the 2025 edition, the Centre is publishing an interactive data platform to sit on the website, offering users easy access to disaggregated data from the core PAF dataset to provide stakeholders working on international development finance, including government officials, disaster risk financing practitioners, academics and civil society organisations with reliable, up-to-date information on available instruments and their financing flows in a centralised hub. The dashboard will fill this gap by providing a centralised hub for knowledge sharing, improved transparency and more informed, strategic decision making by:
- Providing a comprehensive overview of the PAF landscape to support users understand the range of PAF instruments and providers
- Providing information regarding what instruments governments and organisations are using to manage their financial risks associated with disasters
- Standardising PAF data for comparability, facilitating learning and knowledge sharing
- Enabling monitoring and trend analysis at the granular level by allowing users to identify detailed information and shifts by country, region, year, level of coverage, timing, recipient and provider, building on the aggregate data included in the annual PAF report
- Allowing stakeholders to use the data for policy, programming and research purposes and supporting country level DRF diagnostics
- Visualising the distribution of PAF data by region, income group and other characteristics
The Centre is looking to identify a technical expert in aid data to support the further development of this data visualisation tool to accompany the publication of this year’s report in November 2025.
Approach & methodology
The Centre has a draft framework for visualisation based on the data and analysis gathered for the 2025 report. The consultant will familiarise themselves with the PAF dataset and discuss with the project team the goals for this year’s report. In consultation with the project team and the Centre’s communication team, the consultant will propose ways to interactively visualise the data in a dashboard.
He/she will work collaboratively with the project lead and the communications team to embed the platform within the Centre’s website.
Expected deliverables and timelines
This work is expected to commence in September 2025 and conclude in early November to align with the 2025 PAF report publication date. It is anticipated to take up to 30 days to complete this work.
Expected deliverable
Indicative timeline
Draft dashboard layout
w/c 22nd September 2025
Input 2025 data
w/c 29th September 2025
Draft dashboard for review
w/c 13th October 2025
Final dashboard
w/c 20th October 2025
Assistance with embedding dashboard on website
w/c 3rd November 2025
Competencies
The Centre is seeking an individual consultant with the following competencies:
- Demonstrated expertise in use of international aid databases and data standards (such as OECD DAC aid statistics, UN OCHA Financial Tracking Service, data published to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard);
- Experience and creative flair in data visualisation and communication;
- Experience with interactive data platform creation.
- Experience with aid data methodologies and curating novel datasets;
- Experience in data analysis using programming languages, such as R and Python.
- Familiarity with international aid reporting standards, policy and influencing.
Application
Interested candidates should provide a CV and include a minimum of 2 examples of previous data visualisations he/she has made. Examples can be links, PDF, or other formats.
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.
Correctly submitted invoices will be paid within 30 days of receipt of invoice and/or approval of relevant work (whichever is the later).
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.
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Final award of contract will not be confirmed until these checks are complete.
Intellectual property
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.