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| REACH GIS Officer | |||
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| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Balkh, Kabul, |
| Categories | Program, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2022-04-06 | Close Date | 2022-04-24 |
| Vacancy No | KBL_054 | Gender | Male |
| No Of Jobs | 2 | Contract Duration | 6 Months |
| Education | Excellent academic qualifications, including a BA in Statistics, Economy, GIS, Information Systems, or relevant discipline. | Experience | Experience developing data collection xls from kobo tools will be an added advantage. |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | According to ACTED's Salary Scale |
About Company
About ACTED: Since 1993, as an international non-governmental organization, ACTED has been committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer-term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential. ACTED endeavors to respond to humanitarian crises and build resilience; promote inclusive and sustainable growth; co-construct effective governance and support the building of civil society worldwide by investing in people and their potential. We go the last kilometer: ACTED’s mission is to save lives and support people in meeting their needs in hard-to-reach areas. ACTED develops and implements programs that target the most vulnerable amongst populations that have suffered from conflict, natural disaster, or socio-economic hardship. ACTED’s approach looks beyond the immediate emergency toward opportunities for longer-term livelihoods reconstruction and sustainable development. ACTED is active in 35 countries and implements more than 495 projects a year reaching over 11 million beneficiaries with 400 international staff and 4,300 national staff. ACTED is working in 14 north, northeastern and East & West provinces of Afghanistan. These provinces are affected by natural and man-made disasters. ACTED is providing relief and emergency assistance to the vulnerable population affected by displacements, conflicts, or natural disasters, in the field of agriculture, NFI, shelters, WASH, and food security
Job Description
Key responsibilities:
Under the line-management of the REACH Senior GIS Officer, and oversight of the REACH Data Specialist and IMPACT Country Coordinator, the GIS Officer will fulfill the following functions:
- General
- Preparation, conception and production of maps, including the supervision and monitoring of mapping-related data collection and ensuring dynamic linkages between GIS data and IMPACT Database;
- Co-developing GIS components in proposals and supervising the implementation of these GIS components in approved projects;
- Train the IMPACT team on usage of maps and understanding of maps;
- Represent IMPACT in GIS related coordination meetings.
- Preparation, Conception, and Production of Maps
- Identify map information needs;
- Identify and access map information sources;
- Ensure accurate linkages between spatial databases and assessment data;
- Ensures that the produced maps meet the requirements of REACH and concerned partners.
- Support in digitizing of participatory maps and their database preparations.
- Convert data from other formats into usable, GIS datasets.
- Assessment Support
- Preparation of background data, sampling frameworks
- Support to assessment implementation, data checking, assessment operational mapping
- Digitization of data from hard copy maps to soft-copy datasets
- Contribution to tool development, especially ensuring the appropriate inclusion of spatial data for analysis
- Spatial analysis of assessment findings
- Preparation of assessment outputs (Mapping)
The GIS Officer will maintain the strictest confidentiality on all data collected and related processes. He/she will actively take measures to prevent the unauthorized sharing of any information and data belonging to ACTED and its partners, or collected during his/her assignment with ACTED.
Job Requirement
- Excellent academic qualifications, including a BA in Statistics, Economy, GIS, Information Systems, or relevant discipline;
- Flexibility and adaptability are essential, as well as the ability to plan, take initiative and organize work independently. In addition, Impartiality, objectivity and confidentiality are imperative;
- Good command of GIS software (especially those used by ACTED), including ArcGIS.
- Ability to operate with Database software such as Access or Foxpro.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and other data visualization and analyses software;
- Familiarity with other information and data sources related to GIS to be recommended to ACTED for better GIS practices would be an asset.
- Understanding the nature of the work carried out by programs is necessary for ensuring the relevancy and usability of the maps produced. Therefore, a proactive and self-motivated attitude towards gaining a good understanding of ACTED programs, innovating GIS activities and developing new GIS components for proposals is essential;
- Willingness to learn and capacity to innovate: The GIS Officer must be inventive and eager to improve his or her own skills, and be capable to adapt, shaping, and develop tools best suited for ACTED's activities
- Ability to travel to the field for data collection, cross-checking the data and provide training to field staff;
- Good organizational and communication skills with international and national staff and rural communities.
- Fluency in English required;
- Experience developing data collection xls from kobo tools will be an added advantage.
- Good communication skills;
- Ability to work independently.
Submission Guideline
- Those who fulfill the above-mentioned criteria should send their updated CV to the below submission Email:afghanistan.jobs@acted.org
- Kindly mention Vacancy number, position title (specify the subject) along with province name in the subject line or your application may not be considered.
- Please do not send heavy size documents (i.e. Tazkira, Education documents, and work certificates)
- Only shortlisted candidates will be called for the next stage of recruitment.
- No CV will be considered after the closing date.