Overview
Extended Term Consultant to provide technical support for spatial analysis and climate resilience agendas with a strong distributional lens.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical assistance to country teams in implementing distributional analysis, including poverty and welfare impact assessments linked to climate, spatial, and policy dimensions.
- Support the geocoding of household surveys using the H3 spatial indexing system.
- Support the construction of poverty maps, including the integration of spatial variables.
- Support country teams integrate geospatial data and climate information into their analytical workflows.
- Contribute to the ongoing maintenance, improvement, and expansion of the WISE-APP (Welfare Impacts of Weather Shiny App).
- Support the development and upkeep of other relevant tools and dashboards.
- Ensure code quality, documentation, and version control across all tool development activities.
- Contribute to multi-country analytical work on spatial analysis and distributional impacts of policies.
- Support the preparation of reports, briefs, and presentations summarizing analytical findings.
- Assist with data management, quality assurance, and the production of publication-ready outputs.
- Develop training materials and deliver trainings/webinars on tools, dashboards, analytical methods and geospatial skills.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience applying economic data, and analytical tools, with a demonstrated track record of producing high-quality results independently.
- Experience building or contributing to interactive web applications (e.g., R Shiny, Streamlit, or similar frameworks) is an advantage.
- Strong data management skills and experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
Qualifications
Master's degree (PhD preferred) in economics, data science, statistics, geography, or a related field.
