Overview
This consultancy will deliver a hotspot analysis identifying priority areas of disaster risk affecting critical infrastructure and services in Timor-Leste to support the Government in prioritizing investments. It will also produce a practical methodology and policy-relevant risk insights.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and apply a multi-criteria hotspot prioritisation framework for transport networks, health facilities, and early warning infrastructure, integrating social vulnerability and service-access dimensions.
- Facilitate technical validation of the hotspot analysis with government counterparts and stakeholders.
- Support policy dialogues to ensure the usability of results for investment screening.
- Prepare methodological notes in English.
- Identify next analytical steps for future quantitative risk or return-on-investment models.
Required Experience
- Minimum 7 years of professional experience in disaster risk reduction, multi-hazard risk assessment/analytics, spatial analysis or related field is required.
- Experience in geospatial analysis using GIS software (ArcGIS, QGIS etc) is desirable.
- Experience in conducting disaster risk assessments in SIDS, LDCs, or Southeast Asian context is desirable.
- Experience in facilitating multi-stakeholder consultations, including marginalized and vulnerable groups is desirable.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in disaster risk management, geography/environmental or natural resources management, infrastructure risk and asset exposure modeling, geoinformatics/geographic information systems, mathematics, statistics, or related fields is required.
- A first-level university degree with at least 2 additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
