Geospatial Full-Stack Developer and Data Engineer Consultant

About the role

UN-Habitat is recruiting a consultant to contribute to the City Resilience Global Programme, which aims to build inclusive, sustainable, climate-resilient and risk-informed urban and territorial development. Working under the direct supervision of the Head of the City Resilience Global Programme, the consultant provides technical expertise, analytical support, capacity building and programme development assistance to partner cities, territories and institutions. The expected duration is 6 months.

Key responsibilities

• Improve the functionality, usability, performance and scalability of the City Resilience Profiling Interactive Tool (CRPiT), and strengthen the integration of geospatial data, resilience indicators, interactive visualizations and downloadable outputs.
• Develop functionalities to compare resilience profiles of the same city or territory over time, and pilot AI-assisted capabilities for preliminary interpretation of resilience indicators, trends, strengths and vulnerabilities (clearly marked as preliminary).
• Adapt CRPiT modules to the methodological, territorial and data requirements of the NewMed2030 programme, and support multilingual and translation functionalities.
• Generate and validate resilience profiles for the eight participating NewMed2030 localities, incorporating stakeholder feedback, and replicate them in other contexts.
• Test, deploy and document the platform, train the CRGP technical team in its use, administration and maintenance, and transfer knowledge.

Required profile

• Advanced university degree or equivalent professional qualification in urban and regional planning, urban studies, urban geography, development studies or public policy, with knowledge of computer science, information technology or a related field; a first-level degree with two years of qualified experience is accepted in lieu.
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience in urban planning, urban and territorial resilience, GIS, software development, geospatial data engineering or related fields.
• At least two years of experience developing interactive, data-driven web applications or Web GIS platforms.

Required skills

• Experience developing and maintaining automated geospatial data-processing workflows using Python.
• Experience integrating front-end applications with back-end services, APIs and SQL-based data structures.
• Practical experience with web technologies, geospatial processing tools, mapping libraries and version-control systems.