Le NRC recrute un Chargé de mission numérique (SIG et innovation), Kosti, Soudan
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Digital (GIS &Innovation) Officer is responsible for maintaining, designing, developing, enhancing, debugging, and implementing geospatial applications (web-based, standalone, and mobile apps), to integrate models and model data into a Geoportal, or deliver data to NRC Sudan program teams, troubleshooting production problems related to GIS applications and providing technical support and training to the application users.
The Digital (GIS &Innovation) Officer will support the design of data collection tools to ensure spatial data is captured to a sufficient level of data quality, draft maps (both static maps and interactive web maps). Additionally, support and contribute to implementing other digital initiatives such as digital vouchers.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Generic Responsibilities
- Compliance with and adherence to NRC policies, tools, handbooks, guidelines, and procedures.
- Implement delegated Digital project portfolio according to digital workplan.
- Prepare and develop status reports as required by management.
- Support programme team to ensure projects target beneficiaries most in need and explore and asses new and better ways to assist.
- Promote and share ideas for technical improvement and support innovation initiatives, delivering pilots to programme teams.
- Develop and roll out GIS capacity building training for other team members.
- Ensure that key learnings are extracted from the use of GIS and timely transmitted to the CC programs staff for further development and analysis programmatically.
- Liaison and collaborate with relevant local and national authorities, stakeholders and donors and represent NRC in relevant forums/cluster/working groups on behalf of the Country Management Group (CMG) as designated.
Specific Responsibilities
- Support programme teams to use Geographic Positioning System (GPS) tools to capture the locations for NRC services across core competencies (Site Management, WASH, Shelter, Education, livelihoods etc).
- Design and develop geospatial software and applications, including GIS products, for data analysis, processing, and automation of routine tasks.
- Maintain, enhance, and implement web-based and standalone geospatial applications to integrate models and data into Geoportal and client delivery systems.
- Troubleshoot production issues related to GIS applications and provide technical support and training to users.
- Support the design of data collection tools to ensure high-quality spatial data capture.
- Create static and interactive web maps for visualization and analysis purposes.
- Contribute to the implementation of digital initiatives such as digital cash vouchers.
- Test and improve geospatial application software, ensuring compliance with global standards and data interoperability interfaces.
- Participate in technical reviews of Geo Information Systems and propose system improvements.
- Develop mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms, suitable for publication on app stores.
- Collaborate with program teams to use GPS tools for location data collection and support the integration of geospatial datasets into decision-making processes.
QUALIFICATIONS
Professional Competencies
These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance.
- Bachelor’s Degree in GIS or a related discipline (Information Systems, Environmental Engineering…)
- Applied knowledge or experience in GIS, Remote sensing and/or IT preferably in the humanitarian context. Programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, Java etc.
- Proficient in QGIS/ArcGIS.
- Minimum of three (3) years’ experience working as a Geospatial Technologies Developer.
- Experience with Content Management Systems such as Joomla, Word press and Drupal, QGIS, ArcGIS, Open Layers, GeoNode.
- Mobile development experience using IOS (Objective C), Android (Java) or Windows Mobile (C#) will be valuable.
- Skills and experience in data collection platforms i.e., Kobo and data visualization, i.e., Power BI, is an added advantage.
- Demonstratable experience in web and software programming as well as mobile apps programming.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work within teams or independently.
- Previous experience using digital technology/ICT to improve programme quality
- Experience in .NET and MSSQL, MySQL & PostgreSQL and spatial databases
Behavioral competencies
- Planning and delivering results
- Empowering and building trust
- Communicating with impact and respect