Consultant – Strengthening Resilient Infrastructure Governance

Overview

Strengthen governance of resilient infrastructure at national and subnational levels.

Tasks Summary

• Coordinate agenda and elaborate concept note for capacity development.
• Design and deliver capacity development workshop on resilient infrastructure methodologies.
• Adapt training content and materials to national and subnational context.
• Develop talking points and key messages for meetings and presentations.
• Support translation of training materials into Portuguese.
• Develop communication materials for dissemination of key messages and outcomes.
• Conduct desk review of relevant national policies, standards, and practices.
• Identify key national and subnational stakeholders for guidance development and validation.
• Develop technical guidance on gender-responsive, resilient, climate-adaptive, and improved recovery solutions for infrastructure projects.
• Ensure guidance addresses disaster risk considerations and differentiated impacts.
• Identify and document practical case studies linking resilient infrastructure and recovery.
• Identify opportunities for proof of concept for practical application of guidance.
• Align guidance with existing national policies, standards, and institutional practices.
• Provide technical inputs to support coordination between national and subnational stakeholders.
• Contribute to identification of practical governance mechanisms.
• Support planning and delivery of technical workshops and consultations.
• Prepare meeting notes and summaries.
• Prepare an impact report capturing key results from capacity development activities.
• Ensure all activities and outputs adopt an inclusive, gender-responsive, and risk-informed approach.
• Provide technical inputs, clarifications, and revisions to UNDRR and SEDEC.

Experience Requirements

• A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible professional experience in disaster risk reduction, disaster risk analysis, infrastructure resilience, climate change adaptation, sustainable development or related areas is required.
• Experience in Brazil on disaster risk reduction is required.
• Experience providing technical advice or capacity development support to government institutions at national or subnational level is desirable.
• Experience within the United Nations system or any other similar international organization is desirable.

Qualification Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in disaster risk reduction, engineering, architecture, urban or infrastructure planning, environmental sciences, climate change, development studies, public policy or a related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with 2 years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Other Details

Languages Required: Fluency in English and Portuguese is required for this consultancy.

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Contract Duration: 5 months

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