Background
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is supporting the strengthening of hydrological and meteorological services, climate services and multi-hazard early warning systems in the Dominican Republic through the Climate Risk and Early Warning System (CREWS) Dominican Republic project. The project engages with the main national stakeholders contributing to climate and warning services (INDOMET, INDRHI, Civil Defense, Emergency Commission Center, and National Geological Services) and other relevant stakeholders. Effective coordination is essential to support institutional ownership, promote collaboration across sectors, facilitate decision-making processes, and ensure the timely implementation of project activities.
Given the need to enhance the operational and institutional capacities of national services, the WMO requires targeted support to conduct an institutional assessment and propose improvements for the reorganization of the national hydrological services (NHS), which is under the National Institute of Water Resources (INDRHI). The approach focuses on optimizing the organizational structure to ensure effective operation, with an emphasis on improving processes and practices related to hydrometeorological data management, monitoring, and forecasting, as well as the development and provision of information to support decision-making.
Duties and Responsibilities
The consultant(s) shall carry out:
- Analysis of the NHS’s institutional contribution to the development of national climate and early warning services, as well as to the management of the country’s water resources, with the aim of identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
- Assessment of the NHS’s institutional organization, vision, and strategies, in alignment with the INDRHI strategic plan, the National Development Strategy, and national disaster risk reduction policies, among other instruments.
- Propose a comprehensive and updated organizational structure of the NHS, including improvement of the institutional framework, roles, and procedures that facilitate effective hydrological information management and services delivery.
- Formulation of recommendations for the reorganization of hydrological monitoring and forecasting units.
- Validation of the institutional evaluation with respective authorities appointed by INDRHI in coordination with WMO.
Among other tasks is required:
- Collaborate with national institutions and other consultants that contribute to carrying out analysis or assessment related to the climate and early warning services chain. This includes discussion sessions to provide inputs on the institutional evaluation of the NHS and contribute to reviewing their assessment report.
- Organize and host meetings, technical and institutional consultations, including preparation of agendas, presentations, meeting records, and follow-up actions.
- Prepare presentations to inform the findings, analysis, results, and recommendations to INDRHI and WMO.
Institutional governance and reporting framework will be provided by WMO coordination team as support for the implementation.
Deliverables
- Inception Report, including a plan to carry out consultancy, stakeholder mapping, list of projects and status of their contribution to INDHRI and its NHS, main references to be used.
- Progress Report, status of the current NHS organization, description of user and their requirements, and SWOT matrix.
- Final Report, completed assessment with proposed institutional NHS’ reorganization and recommendations, validated by the technical INDRHI team appointed to this support this consultancy. This should include a proposed action plan to support the NHS’ reorganization, and the lessons learned.
Required Skills and Experience
Education: University degree in public administration, international development, environmental sciences, meteorology, hydrology, climate change, social sciences, or another relevant field.
Experience:
- At least 10 years of relevant professional experience in institutional strengthening, stakeholder engagement and international relationships on improvement of hydrological services and water resources or related fields.
- Demonstrated experience supporting coordination among government institutions, technical agencies, and development partners.
- Experience organizing consultations, workshops, meetings, and multi-stakeholder engagement processes.
- Experience preparing technical, institutional and technical reports, and user needs consultation.
- Experience supporting project coordination and implementation is desirable.
- Experience related to climate services, hydrometeorology, disaster risk reduction, or early warning systems is an asset.
- Experience working in the Dominican Republic and familiarity with national institutional arrangements is highly desirable.
Other Requirements:
- An easygoing person with a strong sense of teamwork.
- Strong coordination, communication, and facilitation, and solution problems skills.
- Ability to engage effectively with government institutions, technical organizations, and development partners.
- Excellent drafting, reporting, and presentation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and stakeholders simultaneously and deliver quality outputs within agreed deadlines.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Languages:
- Fluency in Spanish is required, given the need for consultations and coordination with national institutions in the Dominican Republic.
- Knowledge of English is highly desirable.
(Note: The official languages of WMO are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.)
Salary and Allowances: Pay band C/D
Duration: 60 days over a period of 4 months
Contact: Maxime Zufferey mzufferey@wmo.int
Applications:
Applications should be made online through the WMO e-recruitment system.
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