Job Highlight

This short-term assignment provides a unique opportunity to contribute to a high-profile global initiative on climate-induced loss and damage. The short-term assignment: Information Management - Loss and Damage Report Submissions will contribute directly to the foundational work to prepare the first regular report on loss and damage. Her/his work will contribute to collect and organize inputs received from diverse stakeholders including on climate risks and impacts, and responses to climate-induced loss and damage, to be made available to the entity that will develop the report, upon its selection. This assignment offers exposure to inputs and information about a wide diversity of loss and damage responses that will form the basis for the development of the global report.

Role Purpose

The selected candidate for this short-term assignment will act as an authoritative specialist, supporting the systematic collection, organization, and management of diverse information related to loss and damage to be received from a diversity of stakeholders through a global call for inputs. S/he will contribute to the design and implementation of frameworks for content classification and tagging, to make relevant products and knowledge more accessible and inter-operable. S/he will help create and maintain a digital repository of materials that will support the analysis of all relevant materials by the OBNEs drafting the first edition of the regular report on loss and damage. Lastly, s/he will also identify key materials that the Santiago Network can use in support of its other functions, including on knowledge development and exchange across technical assistance domains, regions, and climate contexts. This assignment will support information management practices for a critical global climate initiative.

Functions / Key Results Expected

Information Management Strategy and Implementation

• Manage the analysis of existing standards and processes for the systematic collection, tagging, and classification of submissions related to loss and damage, and propose options for their enhancement and integration.
• Apply relevant methodologies to ensure consistent use of proposed tagging structures and identify emerging thematic areas from submitted content.
• Apply innovative approaches for categorizing diverse content, including submissions received through incomplete forms or alternative channels, ensuring comprehensive data capture and accessibility.

Digital Repository Development and Interoperability

• Manage the development and implementation of an interoperable digital repository for all submitted materials, ensuring effective content grouping, accessibility, and seamless integration with submission form data.
• Facilitate the sharing of the repository with selected OBNEs and support access to available information by developing simple guidance and providing direct assistance to relevant counterparts.

Programme Support and Knowledge Leadership

• Compile lessons learned on the call for inputs and its management, covering e.g. the submission process and available options, the management of the received content, the accessibility of the relevant information management system to selected OBNEs.
• Identify content that can support advocacy, engagement of members and technical counterparts, knowledge development and exchange and propose options to fully leverage selected content.
• Provide advice and capacity building within the Secretariat on advanced information management techniques, options and tools that can support engagement of members and technical counterparts, knowledge development and exchange.

Deliverables (please note that the exact timeline and deliverables might be subject to change):

• An improved set of tools, categories, and tags to systematize the diverse submissions received through the call for inputs, and their use to strengthen existing and newly-established submission channels. (end of February 2027)
• A digital repository of materials, including all submissions received through the call for inputs, tagged and organized in a systematic manner to support sharing with the OBNEs selected to draft the report. (end of March 2027)
• Support to the relevant OBNEs in accessing the repository, through the development of accessible guidance, as well as to direct assistance to relevant personnel. (throughout April 2027)
• Curated list of materials for use by the Santiago Network Secretariat with a set of recommendations on how to use them in innovative, impactful manners - and relevant capacity building for Santiago Network Secretariat staff, if needed. (end of April 2027)
• A set of lessons learned from the call for input process, recommendations to strengthen relevant efforts for future editions of the report, and indications on how to strengthen the Secretariat’s broader knowledge management work. (end of April 2027)

Required

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) inpreferably in Information Management, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Knowledge Management, Environmental Science, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Sustainable Development, or a related field with 7 years of relevant experience OR
• Master’s degree (or equivalent) preferably in any of the above or related fields with 5 years of relevant experience is required

Desired

• A certification in Data Management, Information Systems, or Digital Archiving is desired.

Required

Experience Requirements

• 7 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree or 5 years with a Master's degree in programme management, information management, data management, or fields related to climate change, disasters, the environment.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing content classification systems, tagging methodologies, and digital repositories.
• Demonstrated thematic expertise on loss and damage associated with the impacts of climate change, or other related fields, including climate change adaptation, disasters (DRR, DRM, disaster preparedness, response and recovery), environment (ecosystem management, conservation), humanitarian interventions or sustainable development.

Desired

• Understanding of climate change policy, notably loss and damage negotiations under the UNFCCC and the WIM.
• Experience providing technical assistance on loss and damage, or working with climate-vulnerable recipients in a related sector (e.g. early warning and preparedness, humanitarian interventions, reconstruction, advocacy).
• Experience working with international organizations or multi-stakeholder partnerships.
• Proven experience in managing complex data sets and ensuring data interoperability.
• Experience in developing and implementing information management strategies for large-scale projects.

• Manage the analysis of existing standards and processes for the systematic collection, tagging, and classification of submissions related to loss and damage, and propose options for their enhancement and integration.
• Apply relevant methodologies to ensure consistent use of proposed tagging structures and identify emerging thematic areas from submitted content.
• Apply innovative approaches for categorizing diverse content, including submissions received through incomplete forms or alternative channels, ensuring comprehensive data capture and accessibility.
• Manage the development and implementation of an interoperable digital repository for all submitted materials, ensuring effective content grouping, accessibility, and seamless integration with submission form data.
• Facilitate the sharing of the repository with selected OBNEs and support access to available information by developing simple guidance and providing direct assistance to relevant counterparts.
• Compile lessons learned on the call for inputs and its management, covering e.g. the submission process and available options, the management of the received content, the accessibility of the relevant information management system to selected OBNEs.
• Identify content that can support advocacy, engagement of members and technical counterparts, knowledge development and exchange and propose options to fully leverage selected content.
• Provide advice and capacity building within the Secretariat on advanced information management techniques, options and tools that can support engagement of members and technical counterparts, knowledge development and exchange.

• Information management
• Data management
• Programme management
• Content classification systems
• Tagging methodologies
• Digital repository design and implementation
• Data interoperability
• Climate change, loss and damage, disaster risk reduction and management, environmental management, humanitarian interventions, or sustainable development expertise
• Knowledge management and knowledge exchange
• Capacity building and technical assistance

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) preferably in Information Management, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Knowledge Management, Environmental Science, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Sustainable Development, or a related field with 7 years of relevant experience; OR
• Master’s degree (or equivalent) preferably in any of the above or related fields with 5 years of relevant experience is required.
• A certification in Data Management, Information Systems, or Digital Archiving is desired.