Job Description
Pakistan is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and natural and man-made hazards, including flooding, droughts, heat waves, earthquakes and pollution, which disproportionately affect the most vulnerable in society and exacerbate existing developmental challenges.
IOM is leading the multi-year Climate Resilience and Humanitarian Response (Central and Southern Pakistan) component of FCDO’s Building Resilience and Addressing Vulnerability to Emergencies (BRAVE) in Pakistan Programme, with FAO, UNICEF, ACTED, CARE and Islamic Relief as consortium partners.
To support BRAVE interventions, IOM seeks to engage a Remote Sensing & Hydrology Consultant to provide specialized analytical, modeling, and technical advisory support. The consultant will strengthen groundwater assessment, flood forecasting, integrated water resource management (IWRM), and hazard monitoring across provincial, district, and rural settlement levels, with a particular focus on Sindh Province and hill torrent–vulnerable areas.
Organizational Department / Unit to which the Consultant is contributing
Responsibilities
- Conduct groundwater extraction and Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) feasibility assessments for Sindh Province using hierarchical analytical processing, including water table depth analysis, topographic wetness index, drainage density, hydraulic conductivity, and other relevant analytical metrics, to support provincial understanding of groundwater health and inform BRAVE Consortium piloting initiatives.
- Undertake district- and rural settlement–level hydrological analyses utilizing open-source satellite data and high-resolution drone imagery to support BRAVE Consortium programming in integrated water resource management, potential land reclamation, climate-resilient agriculture, and disaster risk reduction.
- Support flood forecasting in hill torrent–vulnerable areas by conducting surface runoff and hydrological analysis and modeling, contributing to BRAVE Consortium’s impact-based forecasting and early warning systems and integrating outputs with enhanced surface water monitoring hardware installed under the BRAVE programme.
- Support District Disaster Management Authorities (DDMAs) in hazard monitoring and detection, in collaboration with BRAVE Consortium district-level capacity-building initiatives and Anticipatory Action guidelines, through the development of remote sensing and hydrology curricula to strengthen forecasting, monitoring, and detection of multiple hazard types.
- Ensure the mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues across all assignments, including accountability to affected populations, gender equality and inclusion, conflict sensitivity, disability inclusion, and other relevant protection and safeguarding principles.
- Perform any other duties as may be assigned in support of BRAVE Project objectives and IOM operational requirements.
Qualifications
Advanced degree in Hydrology, Water Resources Engineering, Remote Sensing, GIS, Environmental Sciences, or a related field.
- Five (5) years of relevant professional experience in humanitarian response, development programming, and/or climate resilience initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience in groundwater assessment, hydrological modelling, and remote sensing analysis.
- Proven experience working with satellite imagery, GIS-based multi-criteria analysis, and hydrological models.
Familiarity with nature-based solutions, anticipatory action, integrated water resource management, and community-based early warning systems.
Strong skills in research design, information management, data analysis, and report writing.
Strong communication, outreach, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely.
Good interpersonal skills and ability to maintain trust and effective working relationships with counterparts.
Team-oriented, but with capacity to work independently and with minimal supervision.
Personal commitment, efficiency, and flexibility.
Strong organizational and time management skills, and ability to deliver under tight timelines.
Understanding of UN policies, procedures and institutional tools.
- For this position, fluency in English and Urdu is required (oral and written).
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- Inclusion and respect for diversity: Respects and promotes individual and cultural differences. Encourages diversity and inclusion.
- Integrity and transparency: Maintains high ethical standards and acts in a manner consistent with organizational principles/rules and standards of conduct.
- Professionalism: Demonstrates ability to work in a composed, competent and committed manner and exercises careful judgment in meeting day-to-day challenges.
- Courage: Demonstrates willingness to take a stand on issues of importance.
- Empathy: Shows compassion for others, makes people feel safe, respected and fairly treated.
- Teamwork: Develops and promotes effective collaboration within and across units to achieve shared goals and optimize results.
- Delivering results: Produces and delivers quality results in a service-oriented and timely manner. Is action oriented and committed to achieving agreed outcomes.
- Managing and sharing knowledge: Continuously seeks to learn, share knowledge and innovate.
- Accountability: Takes ownership for achieving the Organization’s priorities and assumes responsibility for own actions and delegated work.
- Communication: Encourages and contributes to clear and open communication. Explains complex matters in an informative, inspiring and motivational way.
- Any offer made to the candidate in relation to this vacancy notice is subject to funding confirmation.
- Appointment will be subject to certification that the candidate is medically fit for appointment, verification of residency, visa, and authorizations by the concerned Government, where applicable.
- IOM covers Consultants against occupational accidents and illnesses under the Compensation Plan (CP), free of charge, for the duration of the consultancy. IOM does not provide evacuation or medical insurance for reasons related to non-occupational accidents and illnesses. Consultants are responsible for their own medical insurance for non-occupational accident or illness and will be required to provide written proof of such coverage before commencing work.
- IOM has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and IOM, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities.
- IOM does not charge a fee at any stage of its recruitment process (application, interview, processing, training or other fee). IOM does not request any information related to bank accounts.
- IOM only accepts duly completed applications submitted through the IOM online recruitment system. The online tool also allows candidates to track the status of their application.
Required Skills
Job info
Contract Type: Consultancy (Up to 11 months)Initial Contract Duration: 04 months
Org Type: Country Office
Vacancy Type: Consultancy
Recruiting Type: Consultant
Grade: UG
Is this S/VN based in an L3 office or in support to an L3 emergency response?: No