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JOB TITLE.
Climate Risk and Anticipatory Action Technical Specialist TYPE OF CONTRACT.
Consultant UNIT/DIVISION.
APPFG/APP DUTY STATION (City Country).
Remote DURATION.
6 months BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT.
Context The GIS and Remote Sensing (APPFG) Unit in WFPs Analysis Planning and Performance Division (APP) Division is responsible for enhancing WFPs capacity to monitor assess anticipate and respond to climate risks through research and data analytics.
The APPFG team provides technical and operational support and capacity building to field offices and regional bureau as well as interagency coordination that helps WFP to better characterize climate conditions detrimental to food security on the ground.
An increasingly important component of the APPFG portfolio is the provision of technical support to the Anticipatory Action (AA) initiative.
This consists in the assimilation and processing of seasonal forecast data streams to produce current and historical sets of forecast derived indicators on seasonal rainfall performance and to derive thresholds and triggers for the decision process of implementation of AA.
Setting up Anticipatory Action programs is a growth area for WFP and as a result technical support to its implementation has become a strategic direction for APPFG.
Current Requirements The APPFG unit is already providing the required technical support on Anticipatory Action to the Country Offices of Mozambique and Zimbabwe with activities likely to be extended to other COs.
he Unit has been developing and deploying modern approaches involving the integration of seasonal forecasts and satellite and station based agrometeorological indicators to the support of early response options and in analysis of impactbased forecasting approaches.
Specifically the APPFG team is currently engaged with the Mozambique and Zimbabwe Country Offices to provide support and capacity development to the national Meteorological Services (INAM and MSD) and the Ministries of Agriculture in the areas of drought early warning and seasonal monitoring as applied to the definition of anticipatory / early action and early response.
e are currently seeking an agroclimatological risk and anticipatory action technical specialist to support this APPFG workstream and develop operational work for the COs in Mozambique Zimbabwe and others in the pipeline.
he specialist will help define and manage overall approaches and contribute to detailed work plans for the integration of climate forecast information with satellite derived agroclimatic datastreams into improved technical solutions for the implementation of AA activities.
Coordination with other Earth Observation Analysts and Data Scientist / Developers will be required for specific tasks and product development.
he specialist will also support the required multiinstitutional coordination for the support of anticipatory actions early actions and early response activities by WFP RBs and COs and incountry and regional level stakeholders (e.
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National Disaster Management Authorities).
Active presence in international Communities of Practice and maintaining a high profile for WFP is a requirement.
ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.
1.
Technical strategy for AA support by APPFG Unit.
Contribute to the technical strategy being developed for AA support and implementation by the APPFG Unit considering sources of seasonal forecasts methodological approaches for optimized tuning of anticipatory action triggers integration of impact determinants such as vulnerability status and the impact of seasonal forecast skill on the decision processes for the deployment of humanitarian interventions.
Coordinate with and assist the lead consultant to ensure appropriate support in the integration of seasonal forecast information and satellite agroclimatic indicators with the anticipatory/early action and early response interventions of WFP.
Conceptualize and support the development of tools such as online dashboards to support the communication and implementation of Anticipatory Action in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Write original scientific papers and reports for dissemination of WFP anticipatory action methodologies.
Collaborate with lead data engineer to harmonize processes provide solutions and integrate AA processes into APPFG cloud computing infrastructure.
2.
Operational solutions for AA implementation.
Adapt and implement methodologies to derive impactbased thresholds and probabilistic triggers for droughts to be used in AA SOPs.
Contribute to the development of analytical methods related to piloting forecastbased insurance.
Monitor the behavior of the seasonal forecasting and seasonal monitoring systems outputs in terms of quality and regularity of the reporting outputs.
Support activities of COs and RBs engaged in AA implementation on the use of forecasting tools and the interpretation of weather information; identify tailored collaboration and support opportunities including through dedicated field support missions to COs/RBs and provide adhoc onrequest tailored support to field offices.
3.
Multiinstitutional Coordination for AA activities.
Support the development and implementation of AA trigger governance and validation procedures to access internal anticipatory financing.
Collaborate with and train regional bureaus and country offices to strengthen their seasonal forecasting and early warning capacity for natural hazards and anticipatory action.
Help support governmental institutions in the provision of highquality climate services Help establish crossinstitutional and crossdepartmental collaborations for leveraging technical developments of FbF including SHAPES PRISM and WFPs indexbased insurance 4.
Presence in Communities of Practice and Academia.
Support the lead consultant in the coordination and liaison role between the WFP Anticipatory Action team and the APPFG unit and externally between WFP and stakeholders such as the Red Cross UN OCHA Anticipation Hub FAO governmental institutions and academia to ensure the appropriateness and quality of meteo/climaterelated analysis and approaches.
Represent WFP/APPFG at specialized technical domain events workshops and working groups on the themes of climate and natural hazard.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED.
Education.
Advanced University degree in meteorology agricultural sciences physical geography physics or related fields.
Experience Minimum of 3 years of professional experience on.
Shortrange weather forecasts and seasonal/subseasonal forecasting natural hazard early warning systems and impactbased forecasting Agricultural risk management in relation to natural hazards.
Analysis of Climate and Earth Observation data applied to natural hazard risk management with focus on drought and floods.
Drought and flood early warning practice and associated analytical methods using remote sensing.
Knowledge and Skills.
Strong knowledge of machine learning and statistics for risk analytics.
Solid knowledge of seasonal forecast models Forecastbased Financing agricultural forecast models.
Good level of R and Python as applied to the processing of climate Earth Observation and agronomic datasets.
Familiarity with Earth Observation datasets such as satellite rainfall estimates (CHIRPS) NDVI (MODIS Sentinel3 Good presentation and team working skills with the ability to follow and develop a given scope of work.
Ability to work in a team and establish effective working relations with persons of different national and cultural backgrounds.
Languages.
Fluent English with excellent technical reporting ability.
Portuguese is an advantage.
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