Individual Consultant, Risk Assessment Enhancement, Mexico

Please note that the deadline is based on Korean Standard Time Zone (KST, UTC+9)

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• Project: MX046

• Duty Station: Mexico City, Mexico

• Contract Duration: 22 June 2026 – 12 February 2027

• Consultant Level: Level 2

• Total Fees: $10,000 USD

The Paris Agreement on climate change came into force in 2016. Among its objectives are keeping the increase in the global average temperature well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, with efforts to limit it to 1.5°C, as well as increasing the capacity to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change and strengthening resilience.

Climate change represents one of the main threats to sustainable development, with increasingly evident impacts at the global, regional, and local levels. Given the growing intensification of its effects, the generation and strategic use of reliable scientific information becomes fundamental for anticipating risks, guiding decisions, and designing effective public policies for adaptation and mitigation.

Internationally, climate scenarios have evolved into essential tools for projecting future climate conditions and assessing potential impacts on key sectors and vulnerable populations. In particular, the projections developed within the framework of the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report [1](AR6), based on Socioeconomic Shared Pathways (SSPs), allow for the exploration of alternative futures that consider factors such as economic growth, levels of inequality, technological and demographic change, and greenhouse gas emissions.

These projections, prepared by more than 40 scientific institutions within the framework of the Project of Intercomparison of Coupled Models (CMIP) are developed using standardized methodologies that ensure comparability and robustness. In this sense, climate projections are a key input for decision-making. Vulnerability and adaptation assessments inform technical analysis, support climate education, and promote informed dialogue with political and social actors.

In Mexico, one of the main challenges is translating this specialized knowledge into useful, disaggregated, and territorially relevant information, especially at the state and municipal levels. This requires digital tools that allow for the accessible, interactive, and evidence-based visualization and understanding of climate risk at local scales. To achieve this, a geospatial platform is essential. This platform should function as a technical and public interface capable of integrating, processing, and visualizing historical, observed, and projected climate data with a territorial and sectoral focus. This platform will be a key component for informing climate risk analysis across the country's various sectors and regions, and will serve as a technical input for the development and implementation of the National Adaptation Policy (ADAPTAMX).

Through the ADAPTAMX construction process, the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change is developing the “National Climate Risk and Adaptation Platform” to have an updated tool with the best information on the observed and projected impacts of climate change, in order to prioritize sectors and regions of the country that may be most affected and thus have a tool for anticipatory decision-making and planning.

In this context, we require the hiring of a consultant with experience in programming, climate data management, and geospatial tools, as well as experience in interactive visualization. Their role will be to establish the technical foundation for improving and expanding the functionality of this platform, incorporating features for statistical analysis, spatial homogenization, integration of climate scenarios, and the development of dynamic visualizations that allow for clear and effective communication of current and future climate conditions at the municipal level. This work is strategic for advancing towards informed, territorially based climate risk management that supports decision-making.

 

Support in strengthening INECC’s capacities to assess climate risk and prioritize the implementation of adaptation actions throw the enhancement of the National Climate Risk and Adaptation Platform by processing, standardizing and analytically expanding the already integrated climate database that will generate new interoperable technical inputs oriented towards the analysis of climate threats, sectoral impacts and continuous scaling of the platform.

 

The Individual Consultant shall support in strengthening the national climate risk and adaptation platform by conducting the following activities:

a) Support the standardization of the spatial resolution of climate information already integrated into the National Climate Risk and Adaptation Platform, to facilitate its comparability, processing, and analytical use. To help transform climate data in NetCDF format into operational formats compatible with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), such as raster (GeoTIFF) and shapefiles.

b) Contribute to the transformation and preparation climate data in scientific formats, particularly NetCDF, into operational and interoperable formats for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geospatial visualization environments, including GeoTIFF rasters and other formats that facilitate their integration into the platform.

c) Assist in processing baseline climate variables to generate derived climate indices and indicators that allow characterizing threats and relevant signals of climate change, including indices linked to extreme events, agriculture and other priority sectors (e.g., rx1day for the analysis of extreme rainfall events, etc.).

d) Assist in exploring and incorporate, to the extent of data availability and technical feasibility, oceanic or marine-coastal variables under climate change scenarios relevant to the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican Pacific, prioritizing those with potential application in sectors and territories of interest to the platform and ADAPTAMX.

The consultancy will not aim to develop a new comprehensive risk assessment or replace the sectoral diagnoses already carried out within the framework of ADAPTAMX, but rather to support in strengthening the climate component of the platform in a coherent and complementary manner with advising on possible remedial approaches to enable better integration, analysis and use capacities in decision-making in adaptation to climate change by the Mexican government (INECC).

The consultancy will be focused on supporting the strengthening of the analytical architecture of the National Climate Risk and Adaptation Platform, continuing the progress achieved in a previous consultancy through which a climate base of scenarios derived from General Circulation Models (GCM) was integrated at the municipal scale.

 

Deliverables

The expected deliverables are the following:

1. Workplan report. A detailed document that outlines the tasks, activities, timelines, resources, and information required to achieve specific deliverables. The workplan must be developed in close consultation and under guidance of INECC's CGACCE and GGGI's Project Manager.

2. Spatial homogenization and standardization report. This deliverable encompasses the systematic processing of existing climate layers to ensure full consistency in both spatial and temporal resolution across all datasets. It includes the development of automated scripts to standardize layer processing workflows, guaranteeing that all resulting products meet the technical requirements for correct integration into the platform.

3. Climate data transformation and format conversion report. This deliverable encompasses the conversion of climate data held in scientific formats, particularly NetCDF, into operational, interoperable formats suitable for use in Geographic Information Systems and geospatial visualization environments. It includes a set of processed datasets in GeoTIFF raster format and, where relevant, associated vector layers or geospatial tables, all verified for compatibility with the platform's technical infrastructure.

4. Climate data quality control report. This deliverable encompasses the computation of relevant statistical metrics across all climate layers incorporated into the platform, providing a systematic assessment of data integrity and fitness for use at the dataset level. It includes a set of descriptive statistical reports that document the results of this quality control process, serving as the technical basis for validating the reliability of the climate information available through the platform.

5. Climate indices technical report. This deliverable encompasses the calculation or, where pre-existing products are available, the retrieval and validation of climate indices corresponding to different hazard types, including heat waves, drought, and floods, for integration into the platform. It includes a repository of processed indices ready for operational use, accompanied by detailed technical documentation describing the methodology, data sources, assumptions, and intended application of each index.

6. Marine Coastal and Oceanic Data Feasibility Report. This deliverable encompasses a systematic exploration of marine-coastal and oceanic variables available across major climate data repositories, including Copernicus and ESGF. It includes a technical assessment of the viability of incorporating these variables into the platform through the construction of indices relevant to the sectors of interest under ADAPTAMX, documenting available data sources, methodological considerations, identified constraints, and recommendations for next steps.

7. Final report. This deliverable will integrate the results of all previous deliverables narrating the followed steps, methodologies, data sources, and recommend next steps for the National Climate Risk and Adaptation Platform.

 

Deliverables, timeline, and payments

Payment	Deliverables	Delivery date	Amount (% over total fee)
No. 1	Workplan report	1 week after the contract signing	5%
No. 2	Spatial homogenization and standardization report	6 weeks after the contract signing	16%
No. 3	Climate data transformation and format conversion report	12 weeks after the contract signing	16%
No. 4	Climate data quality control report	18 weeks after the contract signing	16%
No. 5	Climate indices technical report	24 weeks after the contract signing	16%
No. 6	Marine-coastal and oceanic data feasibility report	30 weeks after the contract signing	16%
No. 7	Final report	33 weeks after the contract signing	15%

 

All submitted documents must be in an editable format and contain at least the following structure: Executive Summary, Introduction, Development, Conclusion, and references formatted in APA style. All images included in the texts must be provided in high resolution in a separate file.

All deliverables (documents with their annexes and infographics, schematics, tables, diagrams, cartography, and the other graphic aspects developed to facilitate the understanding of the technical contents) will be delivered in a digital medium and in Microsoft Office software, in open files that allow their editing. 

 

Suggested methodology and competition requirements

• The consultant can use primary and secondary sources of information to prepare the required results.

• Meetings with GGGI team and relevant entities if needed through interviews, workshops, discussions groups with stakeholders and relevant authorities will be necessary to validate and prioritize the actions that will be developed.

• Technical integrated work is considered decisive for the achievement of the objectives.

• It is the consultant's responsibility to attend all required technical events and meetings.

• The final report must be approved by the GGGI. The Consultant shall consider the comments and necessary revisions proposed. Within 14 days from the receipt of the comments or modification proposal from the GGGI, the Consultant shall prepare and submit the final versions of the report. 

 

Reports and Coordination

The development of the consultancy will be monitored and coordinated primarily through periodic review and planning meetings -the precise schedule will be determined once the consultancy starts by GGGI and the consultant. The consultant’s work progress will be monitored through these review meetings addressing topics such as the strategic direction of activities, coordination of actors and the definition of inter-agency conciliation tables, as well as reporting on progress about the objective of consulting and deliverables.

 

Supervision

The consultant will be supervised by personnel of the Climate Change Adaptation and Ecology General Coordination (CGACCE) of the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change (INECC), and GGGI Mexico team. 

 

• (REQUIRED) At least 4 years of relevant experience and bachelor's degree in sciences or related disciplines

• (REQUIRED) Strong knowledge of Python or R, and Linux Bash; preferably with experience in handling georeferenced data, as well as knowledge of algebra and climatology for developing scripts in a Linux environment. File handling and interpretation (particularly NetCDF format).

• (REQUIRED) Experience in handling climate databases, programming, statistics and modeling.

• (REQUIRED) Professional experience in managing information on climate change scenarios, programming and designing dynamic tools.

• (REQUIRED) Knowledge of IPCC reports and scenario assessment methodologies

• (REQUIRED) Geospatial tools and climate data processing.

• (REQUIRED) Data mining and analysis at subnational scales (preferably at the municipal level).

• (REQUIRED) Geographic Information Systems, such as ArcGIS and QGIS (essential)

• (REQUIRED) Fluency in Spanish is required

• (DESIRED) Advanced English desirable

• Selection method: Competitive selection process (CS).

• Timeline for selection: 7 business days from closing date.

• Applications, cover letter, and CV must be submitted in English.

• Date to close is Korean Standard Time (KST). Applications submitted after the deadline will not be considered.

• A consortium or firm may not be engaged for this individual consultant assignment.

Date to close is Korean Standard Time (KST). Applications submitted after the deadline will not be considered Application. Cover Letter, and CV must be sent in English. A consortium or a firm may not be engaged for the individual consultant assignment. 

 

 

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