Consultant to Develope National DRR Strategy Risk Overview and GIS Spatial Analytics in Timor-Leste

Organizational Context

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is the UN system's focal point for coordinating disaster reduction efforts and ensuring synergies among related activities. UNDRR guides, monitors, and reports on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. It supports regional and national implementation and increases global awareness by engaging with Member States and diverse stakeholders.

Job Purpose

This consultancy aims to support Timor-Leste in developing its National Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Strategy by creating a comprehensive risk overview and managing the geospatial data pipeline for a critical infrastructure hotspot analysis. The role will involve consolidating existing risk assessments, generating spatial maps, and harmonizing geospatial data for transport, health, and early warning systems. The ultimate goal is to provide evidence-based insights to inform policy and investment decisions, thereby strengthening the country's resilience to natural hazards and climate change impacts, and ensuring that risk considerations are integrated into infrastructure planning.

Responsibilities

The consultant will be responsible for developing a strategic, multi-hazard national risk overview for Timor-Leste's DRR Strategy by consolidating existing risk assessments and information. This includes reviewing global guidelines, analyzing available data, and generating relevant spatial maps. Additionally, the consultant will compile, quality-assure, and harmonize infrastructure asset inventories (transport, health, early warning systems) and historical disaster data. This will involve executing GIS-based spatial overlays and generating maps to feed into a prioritization framework. Finally, the consultant must prepare comprehensive spatial data documentation and ensure an organized institutional handover of all GIS layers, asset databases, and spatial files to the Civil Protection Authority.

Work Experience

A minimum of three years of professional experience in geospatial analysis and multi-hazard risk assessment/analytics is required. Experience using GIS software (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS) for geospatial analysis is essential. Experience conducting disaster risk assessments in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Least Developed Countries (LDCs), or Southeast Asian contexts is highly desirable, as is experience facilitating multi-stakeholder consultations.

Skills

Geospatial analysis, GIS software proficiency (ArcGIS, QGIS), multi-hazard risk assessment, data compilation and harmonization, spatial data documentation, disaster risk management, strategy development support, stakeholder consultation facilitation.

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