Fields | Description |
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Position | Consultant |
Organisation | United Nations ESCAP South And South West Asia Office |
Country | India |
City | Delhi |
No of Vacancies | 22 |
Project Name | N/A |
Skills and Qualifications | Master's degree in environmental science, meteorology, hydrology, disaster risk management, or related field. A Bachelor's degree in the above fields in combination with three additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. |
Experience | Two years of quantitative and qualitative research experience in weather services, disaster management, and disaster risk reduction using geospatial tools. |
Salary | As per industry standards |
The international consultant with the support of the national consultant will be delivering the following: 1. Scoping study and review of existing risk assessment data availability in the Maldives
2. Prepare land use and natural resources digital database using high-resolution satellite data/ aerial/drone-based data (in case available).
3. Prepare disaster risk maps based on hazard, exposure, and vulnerability data under different climate scenarios based on IPCC CMIP6 climate model outputs.
4. Prepare marine spatial planning to understand the risks from coastal erosion and sea-level rise (potentially using high-resolution NOAA Coastal Digital Elevation Model data)
5. Collection of hazard, exposure, and vulnerability data needed for risk and vulnerability assessment and impact-based forecasting cases.
6. Review the DRR/CCA assessments and help with implementing the planning tools for DRR/CCA management.
7. Prepare training manual/materials for the capacity building workshops.
8. Prepare climate-resilient land use and natural resources plan for the nodal agencies.
9. Organise stakeholder consultation
10. Support ESCAP in organization of capacity building and training workshops for local agencies of Maldives.
Visualizing Urban and Architecture Diagrams
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