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Consultancy Title: CCRI-DRM Geospatial Analysis Consultant
Section/Division/Duty Station: Office of Emergency Operations, UNICEF NYHQ
Duration: 15 February 2025 to fifteen February 2026
Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / Remote
About UNICEF
If you’re a dedicated, artistic skilled and are enthusiastic about making a long-lasting distinction for youngsters, the world’s main youngsters’s rights group want to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been engaged on the bottom in 190 international locations and territories to advertise youngsters’s survival, safety and growth. The world’s largest supplier of vaccines for growing international locations, UNICEF helps little one well being and vitamin, good water and sanitation, high quality fundamental training for all girls and boys, and the safety of kids from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded solely by the voluntary contributions of people, companies, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 employees in additional than 145 international locations.
BACKGROUND
Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:
UNICEF’s Office of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS), Programme Division (PG), and the Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM) are collaborating to enhance how UNICEF makes use of geospatial information and evaluation to reinforce programmatic resolution-making. This contains, amongst different areas, shifting the contextual threat evaluation part of the Emergency Preparedness Platform (EPP) from qualitative to pushed by geospatial information, and strengthening programme choices by way of the Child Climate Risk Index – Disaster Risk Model (CCRI-DRM) and Equity Analysis initiatives. The guide will help these efforts.
Scope of Work:
The guide will contribute to changes to Emergency Preparedness Platform (EPP) threat evaluation geospatial information layers, in collaboration with UNICEF Country Offices, in addition to to coaching modules instructing CO on the best way to use the chance evaluation information to determine excessive threat elements of nations and thus act as the muse for contingency planning.
Secondly, the guide will help the Equity Analysis initiative in growing an app to automate geospatial threat evaluation processes.
The guide may also help the Child Climate Risk Index – Disaster Risk Model (CCRI-DRM) venture workforce, working intently with the CCRI-DRM Data Lead, in implementing all geospatial evaluation parts of the CCRI-DRM in international locations the place the initiative is being applied. This contains supporting 7 UNICEF Country Offices, in coordination with the HQ CCRI-DRM workforce and regional workplaces, with the next package deal of geospatial evaluation, growing a strategy doc, growing world and nationwide hazard publicity layers for a number of hazards, and growing a device to facilitate non-knowledgeable creation of CCRI-DRM indices.
- Overview report of obtainable information units (nation and world, and together with metadata) for mapping of pure and human hazards
- Report on trial evaluation for gaps, suitability
- Set of hazard and inhabitants publicity indicators deriving from evaluation
- Subnational publicity evaluation together with hazard and inhabitants
- Support to CO consultations on development of hazard and inhabitants publicity indicators and validations of outcomes
- Updated subnational publicity indicators and evaluation primarily based on session and validation outcomes
- Vulnerability indicator set primarily based on CO offered information
- Maps for every part to visualise information, together with remaining output maps
- All remaining evaluation information offered in appropriate format for addition to UNICEF Data Warehouse/GeoSight.
Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:
CCRI-DRM Country Office Package 8A, 9A, 10A
- 3 COs. Overview report of obtainable information units (nation and world) for mapping of hazards
Report on trial evaluation for gaps, suitability. Set of hazard and inhabitants publicity indicators deriving from evaluation. Documentation of metadata of the hazard and inhabitants publicity indicators, in addition to on the sources, information, codes and strategies used or developed. Subnational publicity evaluation together with hazard and inhabitants. Maps to visualise information, together with draft output maps. Hazard and inhabitants publicity indicators adjusted, as wanted, by way of validation consultations with CO. (30 August 2025)
CCRI-DRM Country Office Package 11A, 12A, 13A, 14A
- 4 further COs. Overview report of obtainable information units (nation and world) for mapping of hazards. Report on trial evaluation for gaps, suitability. Set of hazard and inhabitants publicity indicators deriving from evaluation. Documentation of metadata of the hazard and inhabitants publicity indicators, in addition to on the sources, information, codes and strategies used or developed. Subnational publicity evaluation together with hazard and inhabitants. Maps to visualise information, together with draft output maps. Hazard and inhabitants publicity indicators adjusted as wanted by way of validation consultations with CO (30 September 2025)
CCRI-DRM Country Office Package 15A, 16A, 17A
- 3 further COs. Overview report of obtainable information units (nation and world) for mapping of hazards. Report on trial evaluation for gaps, suitability. Set of hazard and inhabitants publicity indicators deriving from evaluation. Documentation of metadata of the hazard and inhabitants publicity indicators, in addition to on the sources, information, codes and strategies used or developed. Subnational publicity evaluation together with hazard and inhabitants. Maps to visualise information, together with draft output maps. Hazard and inhabitants publicity indicators adjusted as wanted by way of validation consultations with CO (30 October 2025)
CCRI-DRM Country Office Package 8B, 9B, 10B
- 3 COs. Revised subnational publicity indicators and evaluation, and metadata, primarily based on session and validation outcomes. Vulnerability indicator set primarily based on CO offered information. Maps for every part to visualise information, together with remaining output maps. All remaining evaluation information offered in appropriate format for addition to UNICEF Data Warehouse/GeoSight (30 November 2025)
CCRI-DRM Country Office Package 11B, 12B, 13B, 14B
- 4 further COs. Revised subnational publicity indicators and evaluation, and metadata, primarily based on session and validation outcomes. Vulnerability indicator set primarily based on CO offered information. Maps for every part to visualise information, together with remaining output maps. All remaining evaluation information offered in appropriate format for addition to UNICEF Data Warehouse/GeoSight (30 December 2025)
CCRI-DRM Country Office Package 15B, 16B, 17B
- 3 further COs. Revised subnational publicity indicators and evaluation, and metadata, primarily based on session and validation outcomes. Vulnerability indicator set primarily based on CO offered information. Maps for every part to visualise information, together with remaining output maps. All remaining evaluation information offered in appropriate format for addition to UNICEF Data Warehouse/GeoSight (30 January 2026)
Enhanced Shiny App for Equity Analysis/CCRI-DRM Automation
- App growth to strengthen automated processing of Excel-based indicators to supply Equity / CCRI base layers. Research on, creating and testing new indicators. Script to create nation subsets (generic) and creation of nation subsets of hazard layers for the CCRI-DRM mannequin international locations. Create a tutorial on the best way to create nation subsets and use the nation subsets. Conduct 3 on-line webinars to coach UNICEF employees and nationwide companions on the best way to create nation subsets and use the nation subsets. Develop a quick detailing backstop particular requests of CCRI-DRM international locations refining/finalizing fashions and advert-hoc requests. Function to transform to GeoRepo shapefile construction the place UNHCR is used. App refinement primarily based on suggestions from Equity and CCRI workforce. Addition of demography associated evaluation utilizing tornqvist formulation. Summary doc in regards to the app again-finish script (15 February 2026)
EPP Hazard Exposure Layer Updates
- EPP hazard layers are up to date primarily based on CO requests, e.g. to make use of nationwide information units instead of world, or for every other purpose (30 December 2025)
Support to growth of EPP threat evaluation coaching.
- Develop a report detailing trainings help to RAPS, guiding non-consultants in decoding subnational pure hazard geospatial information for the aim of EPP 3.0 threat evaluation (30 December 2025)
Qualifications
Education:
Advanced college diploma (PhD) within the space of Geography, Climate Science, Computer Science, or programme expertise with related geospatial part is required.
Work expertise:
Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *:
- A minimal of 12 years {of professional} expertise utilizing geospatial applied sciences for evaluation
- Experience with geospatial information science with concentrate on humanitarian information and threat evaluation
- Experience with threat index creation; expertise with INFORM methodology is an asset
- Experience growing and managing on-line geospatial dashboards
- Experience growing apps within the Shiny atmosphere
- Coding abilities together with R, Python, ArcPy, Django
- Advanced proficiency with Esri merchandise (e.g. ArcGIS, 123, and Enterprise) and QGIS
- Experience with growing methodology paperwork and reviews to educational publishing requirements.
- Abilities to work in multi-cultural groups
- Strong English writing and communication abilities.
Requirements:
Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and
– Upload copy of educational credentials
– Financial proposal that can embrace/ replicate :
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- the prices per every deliverable and the overall lump-sum for the entire project (in US$) to undertake the phrases of reference.
- journey prices and day by day subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or journey is required as per TOR.
- Any different estimated prices: visa, medical insurance, and residing prices as relevant.
- Indicate your availability
– Any emergent / unexpected responsibility journey and associated bills might be coated by UNICEF.
– At the time the contract is awarded, the chosen candidate should have in place present medical insurance protection.
– Payment {of professional} charges might be primarily based on submission of agreed passable deliverables. UNICEF reserves the best to withhold cost in case the deliverables submitted are lower than the required commonplace or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the a part of the guide.
U.S. Visa data:
With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, ought to the chosen candidate and his/her family members reside within the United States underneath a unique visa, the guide and his/her family members are required to vary their visa standing to G4, and the guide’s family members (partner) would require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to have the ability to work, even when he/she was licensed to work underneath the visa held previous to switching to G4.
Only shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of
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Remarks:
Individuals engaged underneath a consultancy is not going to be thought-about “staff members” underneath the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (resembling depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service might be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants. Consultants are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.
The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the whole interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of absolutely-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking on the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and aren’t anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.
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