Background
This consultancy is being proposed to support the implementation of the Early Warning Systems for Floods (EWS-F) project, funded by the US Department of State, by providing technical advisory and development support focused on data publication forecasting services and Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) infrastructure and coordinating national and relevant regional centers as necessary to enhance end-to-end early warning services for floods and related hazards.
Duties and Responsibilities
The EWS-F project aims to advance end-to-end multi-hazard early warning systems and capacities to enable targeted countries in the Southwest Indian Ocean region (Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles), Central America (Guatemala) and the Caribbean region (Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados and Haiti) to take early action and reduce the impact of hydrological hazards, in particular floods. To ensure effective implementation and alignment with national priorities, the EWS-F project seeks to engage a consultant to provide technical advisory and development support focused on data publication forecasting services and Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) infrastructure and coordinate national and relevant regional centers.
The consultant is expected to perform the following activities:
1. Support the development of IT mechanisms to improve accessibility of Impact based forecasting information and warnings (MapViewer, CAP composer)
1.1 MapViewer to CAP Composer Integration
1.2 Geospatial Back-End Development support
1.3 CAP National Aggregator Development to consolidate CAP feeds from multiple alerting institutions, deployable at the coordinating agency level
2. Support the development of bulletin Generation Module (Bulletin Studio) that enables generating bulletins with key messages from different data streams, aligned with regional publication workflows and dissemination standards
3. Forecasts and warnings access and display on websites, including automated product ingestion for relevant products
4. Technical Advisory Support to serve early warning products in OGC standards, with a focus on WMS
5. Support the installation of CAP composer and websites in relevant countries by ensuring alignment with national flood forecasting workflows (FFGS and urban flood forecasting systems)
Required Skills and Experience
Education: Advanced degree in ICT, applied meteorology, hydrology, or related discipline.
Experience:
Other Requirements:
Languages: Excellent knowledge of English (both oral and written) is required. Knowledge of French would be an advantage.
(Note: the official languages of the Organization are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.)
Salary and Allowances: Pay band C - USD 390-560 per day as per WMO rules and regulations and based on experience demonstrated by the candidate.
Duration: 70 days over a period of 5 months
Focal Point : Bernard Minoungou [email protected]
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