Overview
Provide strategic and technical leadership for WFP Cambodia's engagement with MoWRAM, focusing on hydrometeorological services, climate information systems, forecasting, and early warning systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as WFP Cambodia's technical lead on hydrometeorology, climate services, forecasting, and early warning systems.
- Lead technical engagement and partnership development with MoWRAM.
- Provide technical oversight for assessments, rehabilitation, modernization and sustainability planning of hydrometeorological observation networks.
- Support development of DoM and DHRW’s operation and maintenance (O&M) systems and institutional capacities.
- Lead technical activities aimed at improving forecasting services.
- Support integration of hydrometeorological and impact data into WFP and Government decision-support platforms.
- Provide technical advice on development of user-centred climate services and forecast dissemination approaches.
- Support development of forecasting products, warning protocols, trigger mechanisms and operational arrangements.
- Coordinate technical collaboration with relevant national, regional and international organizations.
- Provide technical inputs to national planning processes, technical working groups, policies, strategies, roadmaps and investment plans.
- Identify opportunities and support development of new programmes, concept notes, climate finance proposals and resource mobilization initiatives.
- Generate technical evidence, lessons learned, analytical products, assessments and knowledge products.
- Strengthen internal technical capacity within WFP through training, coaching, development of guidance materials and technical advisory support.
- Prepare high-quality technical reports, workplans, briefing notes, presentations and donor updates.
- Undertake other related duties as required.
Required Experience
- Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible professional experience in meteorology, hydrology, instrumentation engineering, climate services, or closely related technical fields.
- Demonstrated experience working with National Meteorological and Hydrological Services or equivalent government agencies responsible for weather, climate and water information services.
- Proven experience supporting design, procurement, installation and maintenance of hydro-met instruments.
- Experience with development, management and/or maintenance of real-time data acquisition systems, data management systems, quality controls and field data management plans is highly desirable.
- Experience developing or applying forecasting systems, climate services, impact-based forecasting approaches, or early warning products for operational decision-making is desirable.
- Strong track-record providing technical advisory work and capacity strengthening in developing countries is desirable.
- Experience coordinating with government agencies, UN organizations, development partners, research institutions and technical service providers is desirable.
- Experience in programme design, proposal development, donor engagement or climate finance initiatives is desirable.
- Working experience in Cambodia and/or Southeast Asia is an advantage.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in Meteorology, Hydrology, Atmospheric Sciences, Water Resources Engineering, Instrumentation Control/Civil Engineering, or another closely related field.
