Gis Impact Assessment Specialist

Job Posting: 09/Sep/2025

Closure Date: 30/Sep/2025, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: OER - Office of Emergencies and Resilience

Job Type: Non-staff opportunities

Type of Requisition: Consultant / PSA (Personal Services Agreement)

Grade Level: N/A

Primary Location: Italy-Rome

Duration: Up to 11 months

Post Number: N/A

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**Organizational Setting**

The Office of Emergency and Resilience (OER) is responsible for ensuring FAO’s efforts to support countries and partners in preparing for and effectively responding to food and agricultural threats and crises. Within the OER, the Data In Emergencies (DIEM) information system aims to generate timely, meaningful, granular, and publicly available data and analysis on agricultural livelihoods, shocks, food security, and needs to directly inform and design evidence-based emergency action, anticipatory action, resilience programming and impact monitoring. Driven by regularly collected primary data in fragile and shock‑prone environments, DIEM consists of five pillars:

- _ DIEM-Monitoring _is a monitoring system of agricultural livelihoods and food security in the context of multiple shocks in 18 food crisis countries. DIEM-Monitoring relies on periodic household and key informant data collection, through phone and in-person surveys, and analysis;
- _DIEM-Impact_ conducts ex-post assessments to understand the impacts of large-scale hazards on agricultural livelihoods and value chains, using phased methodological approaches such as remote-sensing, damage & loss analyses, Post-Disaster Needs Assessments (PDNA), and other food security & livelihood surveys.
- _DIEM-Risk _consists of risk profiles derived from geographic baselines of past events and their impacts on agricultural livelihoods.
- _DIEM-Research_ ensures that the vast volumes of data and analysis undertaken through the DIEM programme are harnessed to answer some critical questions relevant to better programming in support of agricultural livelihoods in fragile and risk prone contexts.
- _DIEM-MEAL _uses DIEM Monitoring data to conduct impact evaluations of assistance received by agricultural households. This is also combined with project level MEAL data for FAO specific evaluations.

**Reporting Lines**

The Consultant will work under the overall supervision of the OER Senior Technical Officer. He/She will work closely with the OER Data in Emergencies specialists tasked with coordination of assessments integrating GIS and non-GIS elements. He/She will liaise technically with the Land and Water (NSL) Geospatial Unit, Global Information and Early Warning Systems (GIEWS), and other remote-sensing service providers inside and outside the Organization.

**Technical Focus**

The GIS Impact Assessment Specialist is responsible for providing remote-sensing and other GIS inputs into DIEM analyses and products, particularly for the rapid analysis of the impacts of large-scale natural hazards, conflict and other shocks on agriculture.

**Tasks and responsibilities**
- Participate in assessment coordination processes following a large-scale hazard, by exploring existing data and imagery and proposing technical approaches relevant to the type of hazard and information needs;
- Collaborate with FAO needs assessment specialists and country officers, including GIS Officers, for the integration of GIS inputs into phased assessments;
- Conduct GIS analysis of agriculture exposure to large-scale hazards and the potential impacts of these hazards on agricultural livelihoods and food security;
- Support the interpretation, triangulation, ground truthing, and validation of remote-sensing outputs in light of other sources of information (including field surveys and crowdsourced data) and technical limitations;
- Contribute geospatial inputs into DIEM Monitoring in view of triangulating household data, particularly for hazards and crop seasonal monitoring;
- Liaise with NSL geospatial unit for deeper analyses, including land cover mapping, crop monitoring, and damage to infrastructure assessment;
- Contribute to the development of visual and analytical asses