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- Job Type: Full Time
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
- Experience: 2 years
- Location: Borno
- Job Field: ICT / Computer
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES
The specific functions of the incumbent are:
- Provide technical support to the incident management team in developing effective tools and processes to collect, manage and combine spatial datasets.2
- Conduct geospatial analysis on collected datasets; create maps, infographics, and other cartographic products on a regular and ad-hoc basis; in response to functional team leads’ technical needs.
- Standardize and clean geospatial datasets and associated attributes across incident management system specific datasets.
- Lead field data collection efforts as necessary using different data collection techniques such as mobile data collection devices and applications.
- Provide inputs in developing the tools for loading/transferring GIS data between different systems; design and maintain the structures necessary for GIS data storage.
- Manipulate presentation of geographical information by creating programs to convert GIS information from one format to another.
- Adapt tools to join together different GIS datasets and create new information or investigate patterns, e.g. estimating the number of people affected by the incident, etc.Perform any other related incident-specific duties, as required by the functional supervisor
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Education
- Essential: Bachelor degree in geography, cartography, GIS, information management, engineering, geometrics, computer or earth sciences from an accredited/recognized institute.
- Desirable: Post graduate courses in GIS.
Experience
- Essential: At two years’ relevant experience, combined at the national and international levels in GIS management, using different GIS tools such as QGIS, other open sources, GIS software and/or ArcGIS Online. Experience in supporting field data collection in emergency or humanitarian context.
- Desirable: Experience in emergency disaster and health outbreak response, particularly in developing countries. Prior humanitarian working experience at field level, with WHO/UN agencies, health cluster partners, recognized humanitarian organizations or with an international nongovernmental organization.
Skills
- Thorough knowledge of data management/ICT skill; Strong analytical skill
