Result of Service

The following are the results of the service: – UNDRR Bonn office will be able to advance the compilation and organize all sectoral and issue-based methodological, statistical guidance and data standards relevant for losses and damages tracking on an organized manner. – Advance the compilation of relevant frameworks, metrics and baseline data requirements for non-economic losses assessment

Work Location

Home-based

Expected duration

6 January – 6 April

Duties and Responsibilities

Org. Setting and Reporting Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is the designated focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of efforts to reduce disasters and to ensure synergies among the disaster reduction activities of the United Nations and regional organizations and activities in both developed and less developed countries. Led by the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction (SRSG), UNDRR has over 150 staff located in its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and in regional offices. Specifically, UNDRR guides, monitors, analyses and reports on progress in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, supports regional and national implementation of the Framework and catalyses action and increases global awareness to reduce disaster risk working with U.N. Member States and a broad range of partners and stakeholders, including civil society, the private sector, parliamentarians and the science and technology community. UNDRR, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), are collaborating to develop an integrated new generation tracking system for hazardous events and disaster losses and damages. The enhanced system aims at enabling country capacities to better understand disaster data value chains, support data governance, enable actionable information, and facilitate knowledge brokerage for positive change. The enhanced IT solution along with enhanced methodological frameworks are part of the toolkit and support offer for countries to strengthen their national disaster tracking system utilizing open-source digital solutions and building on global data standards and methodological frameworks to institutionalize official disaster-related statistics and strengthen disaster data value chains to enable multiple applications of disaster impact data for strengthening resilience. To support data readiness and methodological development for a multi-sector comprehensive losses and damages tracking system, UNDRR Bonn office is compiling existing standards, sector and issue-specific losses and damages methodological frameworks, indicators, baseline references, data and metadata guidance and organize them along with the proposed data model for the enhanced hazardous event and disaster losses and damages tracking system. The consultant will be working under the direct supervision of the UNDRR Program Officer and will be home-based. Duties and Responsibilities This assignment contributes to several activities within the data and disaster-related statistics area of work of the UNDRR Bonn office. Concretely, in context of the partnership initiative with UNDP and WMO to develop enhanced losses and damages tracking system, UNDRR in collaboration with the United Nations University is convening an expert discussion to assess state-of-the-art on understanding non-economic losses and advance a roadmap for more holistic losses and damages tracking. As part of this area of work the office requires additional capacity for compiling documentation, technical guidance and existing data, metadata and analysis The Consultant’s duties and responsibilities will include the following: – Support on compilation of variables, taxonomies, metadata, data and statistics standards and sector methodologies, indicators and computation guidelines relevant for the enhanced losses and damages tracking system – Support on compilation of variables, taxonomies, metadata, data and statistics standards and sector methodologies, indicators and computation guidelines relevant for the enhanced losses and damages tracking system – Expand research, document and advice on most relevant disaggregation dimensions, data and metadata standards relevant for the losses and damages tracking system. – Document data collection and approaches recommended for each type of variables of losses, damages and impact to be included in the data scheme on losses and damages.

Qualifications/special skills

– Advanced university degree in economics, geography, sociology, applied statistics, data analytics or relevant social sciences is required. – A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. A minimum of 3 years of experience in climate change, DRR, environment or related field with focus on supporting monitoring, data and statistics related work is required. Experience in developing methodological guidance in areas related to climate, environment and disaster related statistics is desirable. Experience on losses and damages assessments processes is desirable. Experience with post-disaster need assessments, DALA methodologies and/or sectoral losses and damages statistical frameworks are desirable.

Languages

Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of Spanish, French or Arabic is desirable.

Additional Information

Due to the high volume of applications received, only successful candidates will be contacted.

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.