Disaster Data Specialist - Consultant at United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Duties and Responsibilities

• The consultant will report to the Program manager -Risk Knowledge and will work in close collaboration with national institutions to evaluate and identify opportunities to enhance production, access and use of disaster loss and damage data in collaboration with current initiatives. In coordination with agencies and stakeholders, the consultant will carry out the following activities:
• Understanding the current institutional landscape of disaster loss and damage data management
• Collect and analyse existing policies, institutional frameworks and identify stakeholders involved in managing disaster data;
• Conduct an inventory of current disaster loss and damage data quality and accessibility, including data sources, data collection and management mechanisms, and data-sharing or exchange protocols;
• Evaluate the information management platforms and tools used by government agencies from data collection, storage and analysis to access and use;
• Carry out a quick assessment of the technical and human resources capacities of national institutions involved in managing disaster data in order to assess the maturity of the country to collect and use disaster data;
• Understand and highlight the current use of disaster loss and damage data in early warning systems and early action frameworks.
• Development of a workplan and capacity building plan for enhancing the consistency in collecting disaster loss and damage data and managing the existing data
• Propose or review a workplan that, among others, takes into account the existing framework mentioning the roles, responsibilities, and collaboration mechanisms for stakeholders as well as the reinforcement necessary,
• mentions the review of the standards, protocols, and guidelines for the collection, management, sharing, and use of disaster loss and damage data to ensure consistency, and accessibility;
• Develop a capacity-building plan to enhance the technical and institutional capacities of national institutions in managing disaster loss and damage data for decision making and reporting to regional and global platforms;
• Establish a monitoring and evaluation system to assess the effectiveness of the proposed actions, the sustainability of the disaster tracking system and ensure continuous improvement, reporting to SFM and uploading data into DesInventar.
• Other tasks
• Perform other duties to support the successful planning and implementation of DRR and disaster loss and damage, Risk Knowledge.

Qualifications/special skills

• Advanced university degree in disaster risk management, risk analysis and management, early warning, environment, social sciences or a related field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with a minimum of 2 additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in disaster risk reduction, disaster loss and damage management or relevant humanitarian and/or development work is required
• Experience in national context on DRR/DRM is required
• Experience in information management, data analysis, statistics, and post disaster loss and damage assessment is desirable
• Experience in the UN or any other similar international organization related to disaster risk reduction, emergency preparedness, response and recovery is desirable.