Duties and Responsibilities

The consultancy is located in the Climate Change and Urban Environment Team of the Programme Development Branch. Under the overall guidance of the RISE Coordinator and the Global Programme Manager, the consultancy will involve the following typical main duties leading to the ultimate requested outputs:

For the local and community-level data collection and management

• designing survey template to collect local and community-level data and information on past adverse climate impacts, socio-economic urban and biodiversity issues as well as urbanization and spatial expansion trends, climate change projections, and biodiversity loss applicable across the 5 countries.
• technical backstopping of in-country survey roll out and implementation
• identifying proxy-data sets to accomodate for data scarcity across the 3 dimensions

For the city-wide multilayered vulnerability assessment

• collecting urban, climate and biodiversity baseline data per city
• identifying proxy-data sets to accomodate for data scarcity per city

Requirements

Qualifications/special skills

• A Masters Degree in urban planning, environmental science, environmental policies, climate change, GIS and data management or related field is required.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience in climate resilience are required
• Experience in sustainable development, sustainability management and working with the United Nations is desirable.
• Experience in data collection, management, assessment and analysis reporting as well as excellent GIS skills are required.
• Strong communications skills are highly desirable.
• Experience on projects in the developing world is desirable.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this consultancy, fluency in oral and written English is required. Fluency in other UN languages is an advantage