Overview
The consultant will provide technical assistance to local governments and communities in urban planning, disaster risk management, and the reduction of vulnerability to geological and hydrometeorological hazards.
Key Responsibilities
- Support national and local institutions in data collection, systematization, and validation regarding hazards, exposure, and vulnerability.
- Coordinate and/or develop hazard, exposure, and risk maps at the city scale.
- Develop detailed risk analyses for the identification and prioritization of critical areas.
- Contribute to the design, implementation, and ownership of the digital risk visualization platform.
- Facilitate technical workshops for knowledge transfer and the use of risk analysis tools.
- Propose and validate contextualized urban solutions for risk reduction.
- Contribute to the design of regulatory, legal, and financial instruments for risk reduction and resilience actions.
- Support the design and execution of pilot projects and monitoring of local strategies.
- Design and implement technical capacity-building activities in risk management and urban resilience.
- Analyze priority environmental hazards and develop/validate environmental hazard models.
- Develop risk scenarios associated with climate change and urban expansion.
- Identify and analyze the exposure of populations, critical infrastructure, urban facilities, and ecosystems to environmental hazards.
- Develop integrated environmental risk matrices and maps.
- Participate in meetings with UN-Habitat technical team and counterparties.
- Provide inputs for monitoring technical and operational activities of the project.
- Provide inputs for drafting project completion and closing documents.
- Support the systematization of good project practices for knowledge management.
- Generate necessary technical inputs within the framework of responsibilities.
- Support compliance with project-related processes and observe monitoring relevant to project implementation and closure.
- Support the Hub Coordinator in developing inputs for conceptual notes, project documents, implementation plans, and budgets.
- Attend technical meetings to meet consultancy scopes and objectives.
- Participate in United Nations System interagency groups, project meetings, official missions, and/or project-related events.
- Provide information to UN-Habitat regarding affectations to the consultancy implementation process.
- Provide inputs for the identification and mitigation of project risks.
- Follow up on technical guidelines determined by Project Coordinators and Coordinator HUB Andean Countries.
- Comply with the schedule of activities according to HUB Coordinator guidelines.
- Ensure technical activities align with Agency and counterparty quality expectations.
- Prepare inputs for progress reports and other reports as requested.
- Prepare inputs for the systematization and exchange of successful practices and experiences.
- Know organizational processes, procedures, and standards to ensure quality of activities.
- Propose formats and procedures for efficient project implementation.
- Know the project file system and ensure its maintenance and accessibility.
- Design methodologies for systematizing good practices and knowledge.
- Support the formulation of substantive documents linked to UN-Habitat Colombia's thematic lines of action.
- Prepare reports and other documents related to meetings, missions, and activities.
- Carry out research activities to facilitate information, knowledge, and best practice exchange.
- Support monitoring of UN-Habitat's implementation of Sustainable Development Goal Target 11.
- Identify strategic allies for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Andean countries.
- Manage knowledge networks for dissemination of methodologies and documents, and for construction of new knowledge with strategic allies.
- Other activities requested and by mutual agreement with the HUB Coordinator of The Andean Countries of UN-Habitat.
- Participate in work and follow-up meetings with other consultants, the Coordinator and team, and project staff.
- Ensure all activities comply with United Nations integrity principles.
Required Experience
A Minimum of seven (7) years of work experience in civil engineering; environmental impact and risk studies; geology; risk scenarios and climate change; hazard, vulnerability, and risk maps and/or related areas is required. Experience in the United Nations system is desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in environmental engineering, civil engineering, geological engineering, hydraulic engineering and/or related fields is required. A first-level university degree in combination with five (5) additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
