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Mission and objectives
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Context
The assignment is based in Bonn within the UNDRR Risk Knowledge Branch. The Global Disaster Data Expert will join the data team and support Regional Offices in their country-level support for disaster tracking system, Sendai Framework Monitoring, and disaster-related statistics. This includes providing technical assistance to governments and stakeholders to strengthen disaster data collection, analysis, and use, including for monitoring and reporting on progress in implementing the Sendai Framework.
A recent evaluation of the Sendai Framework Monitoring(SFM) system highlighted persistent gaps in data availability and national capacity for disaster losses, damages, and impact reporting. These challenges are further underscored by recent UNFCCC decisions on loss and damage, which have reinforced the need for more comprehensive and disaggregated data on human, environmental, and economic impacts to inform policy, programming, and technical assistance.
Within this context, UNDRR is implementing its SFM acceleration strategy and rolling-out DELTA Resilience (Disaster & Hazardous Events, Losses and Damages Tracking & Analysis) as a core country-owned solution for data on hazardous events and disaster losses and damages. The Global Disaster Data Expert will contribute directly to the rollout of DELTA Resilience and to strengthening national disaster-related data systems and risk knowledge generation and use.
The Global Disaster Data Expert is expected to support, capacity development efforts targeting governments, and led by data officers in UNDRR regional offices with the overall objective to enable better disaster-related data collection, analysis, reporting and application through UNDRR-managed data portals.
Specifically, the Global Disaster Data Expert is expected to:
• Support the rollout of DELTA Resilience and accelerated reporting through the Sendai Framework Monitor (SFM) across countries, liaising with designated focal points in UNDRR Regional Offices.
• Support Regional Offices and partners through tools, approaches, and programmes to enhance national capacities on the use of disaster-related data standards, methodological frameworks, and new technologies to establish DELTA Resilience as country-owned disaster tracking systems.
• Support the establishment of the Sendai Framework Academy as a vehicle for capacitating governments and Sendai Framework focal points on SFM, data analysis and use building upon existing SFM training resources at regional and global levels.
• Support the continuous development, update, and enhancement of training materials (for both e-learning, self-paced and facilitated in-person sessions), and the design and delivery of training activities, including webinars, masterclasses, blended learning sessions, and training-of-trainers initiatives.
• Assist regional offices in identifying good practices in data application, documenting use cases on disaster-related data, and developing communication materials (case studies, presentations, videos, etc.) to demonstrate the value of investing in national systems for data collection and analysis.
A recent evaluation of the Sendai Framework Monitoring(SFM) system highlighted persistent gaps in data availability and national capacity for disaster losses, damages, and impact reporting. These challenges are further underscored by recent UNFCCC decisions on loss and damage, which have reinforced the need for more comprehensive and disaggregated data on human, environmental, and economic impacts to inform policy, programming, and technical assistance.
Within this context, UNDRR is implementing its SFM acceleration strategy and rolling-out DELTA Resilience (Disaster & Hazardous Events, Losses and Damages Tracking & Analysis) as a core country-owned solution for data on hazardous events and disaster losses and damages. The Global Disaster Data Expert will contribute directly to the rollout of DELTA Resilience and to strengthening national disaster-related data systems and risk knowledge generation and use.
The Global Disaster Data Expert is expected to support, capacity development efforts targeting governments, and led by data officers in UNDRR regional offices with the overall objective to enable better disaster-related data collection, analysis, reporting and application through UNDRR-managed data portals.
Specifically, the Global Disaster Data Expert is expected to:
• Support the rollout of DELTA Resilience and accelerated reporting through the Sendai Framework Monitor (SFM) across countries, liaising with designated focal points in UNDRR Regional Offices.
• Support Regional Offices and partners through tools, approaches, and programmes to enhance national capacities on the use of disaster-related data standards, methodological frameworks, and new technologies to establish DELTA Resilience as country-owned disaster tracking systems.
• Support the establishment of the Sendai Framework Academy as a vehicle for capacitating governments and Sendai Framework focal points on SFM, data analysis and use building upon existing SFM training resources at regional and global levels.
• Support the continuous development, update, and enhancement of training materials (for both e-learning, self-paced and facilitated in-person sessions), and the design and delivery of training activities, including webinars, masterclasses, blended learning sessions, and training-of-trainers initiatives.
• Assist regional offices in identifying good practices in data application, documenting use cases on disaster-related data, and developing communication materials (case studies, presentations, videos, etc.) to demonstrate the value of investing in national systems for data collection and analysis.
Task description
Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Programme Management Officer (Disaster Data) or designated mandated representative(s), the Global Disaster Data Expert will:
• Coordinate support for country-level data ecosystem analysis maturity assessment and data readiness and quality assessment to understand context-specific needs and best suited approaches and solutions to strengthen data governance and disaster-related data applications.
• Assist regional offices in identifying technical assistance needs of governments to understand benefits, opportunities and needs to establish, enhance or upgrade national disaster tracking systems powered by DELTA Resilience.
• Coordinate and support training of trainers and support regional and/or national capacity development efforts (as required) to collect and analyze data through DELTA Resilience and accelerate reporting on the Sendai Framework Monitor (SFM), including relevant SDG indicators.
• Provide technical assistance to regional offices and partners for strengthening and connecting existing data systems, data migration to enhanced systems and/or enhancement of interoperability with DELTA Resilience.
• Advise and provide technical assistance to regional offices to support government counterparts and UN country teams in producing analytical reports, enhancing dashboards, producing infographics and translating data into meaningful insights.
Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities:
• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day).
• Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country.
• Provide annual and end of assignment self-reports on UN Volunteer actions, results and opportunities.
• Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.
• Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.
• Coordinate support for country-level data ecosystem analysis maturity assessment and data readiness and quality assessment to understand context-specific needs and best suited approaches and solutions to strengthen data governance and disaster-related data applications.
• Assist regional offices in identifying technical assistance needs of governments to understand benefits, opportunities and needs to establish, enhance or upgrade national disaster tracking systems powered by DELTA Resilience.
• Coordinate and support training of trainers and support regional and/or national capacity development efforts (as required) to collect and analyze data through DELTA Resilience and accelerate reporting on the Sendai Framework Monitor (SFM), including relevant SDG indicators.
• Provide technical assistance to regional offices and partners for strengthening and connecting existing data systems, data migration to enhanced systems and/or enhancement of interoperability with DELTA Resilience.
• Advise and provide technical assistance to regional offices to support government counterparts and UN country teams in producing analytical reports, enhancing dashboards, producing infographics and translating data into meaningful insights.
Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities:
• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day).
• Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country.
• Provide annual and end of assignment self-reports on UN Volunteer actions, results and opportunities.
• Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.
• Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.
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