UN Habitat GIS Expert Jobs 2022 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs

UN Habitat GIS Expert Jobs 2022 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs. UN Habitat Ethiopia looking for “GIS Expert”. Applicants with a degree in University Degree may apply on or before 10th Feb 2022.

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the United Nations programme for human settlements and sustainable urban development. It was established in 1978 as an outcome of the first United Nations Conference on Human Settlements and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat I) held in Vancouver, Canada, in 1976. UN-Habitat maintains its headquarters at the United Nations Office at Nairobi, Kenya. It is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. It is a member of the United Nations Development Group. The mandate of UN-Habitat derives from the Habitat Agenda, adopted by the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1996.

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UN Habitat GIS Expert Jobs 2022

The UN Habitat has published a job vacancy announcement on 2nd Feb 2022 for qualified Ethiopians to fill in the vacant post of GIS Expert to be based in Gambela, Ethiopia.

Recruiter United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
Position GIS Expert
Location Gambela, Ethiopia
Country Ethiopia
Total Vacant Post N/A
Qualification University Degree
Experience Required Minimum Four years
Application Deadline 10th Feb 2022

UN Habitat Job Vacancy 2022

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Carrying out an analysis of the strategic development framework considering the pattern of human settlements, their hierarchies and the availability of key functions in each locality;
  • Understanding the spatial suitability of key sectors for which nearly complete data sets are available and gathered from regional sector offices through multi-criteria decision-making model, the aim being to refine the strategic spatial analysis results;
  • Conducting consultations at Wereda, regional and federal levels in an effort to better capture and plan the territory through a participatory approach (building consensus on the preliminary results obtained through the strategic spatial analysis and the suitability analysis, adding the necessary socio-economic perspectives and reflecting the views of the majority of the stakeholders;
  • Data Collection from primary and secondary sources with state of the Art and readily available equipment in the industry and field offices, Collecting and Updating Land use and land cover maps at national and regional level using orthorectification and unsupervised and supervised classification (where appropriate), Collection, management, and utilization of Digital Elevation Models, Geodatabase creation for regions for proper spatial data organization;
  • Digitizing and visualization of Maps, Satellite Image Pre-processing, Vetting quality of satellite with ground truth reality, Georeferencing and orthorectifying Satellite imageries using ERDAS IMAGINE (When Applicable), Projection transformation, Geometric and Radiometric correction (Where applicable), Digitization and Feature extraction from collected maps, Integration of rectified collected data with the newly acquired satellite imageries;
  • Manage, supervise and approval for use of the collection of quality Ground Control Points for base map preparation and further spatial analysis in the project;
  • Liaising with Woreda level data collectors for accuracy assessment of Classification, Develop checklist and institutional mapping to collect relevant maps from Secondary Sources in appropriate or translatable format, Thoroughly checking and authenticating received maps from primary and secondary sources, Updating Woreda and regional base maps based on recent imageries (satellite, orthophoto) and using GIS technology;
  • Provide continuous capacity development programs during plan preparation and operationalization;
  • GIS based Spatial Analysis and statistics, Developing Regional databases incorporating GIS technology during the preparation of the RDSP;

Position in Organization:

  • Agency: HABITAT
  • Title: GIS Expert (UNHABITAT)
  • Job ID: 41090
  • Practice Area – Job Family: Basic Social Service – URBAN PLANNING
  • Vacancy End Date: 10/02/2022 (Midnight New York, USA)
  • Time Left: 8d 23h 57m
  • Duty Station: Gambela, Ethiopia
  • Education & Work Experience: I-Master’s Level Degree – 4 year(s) experience
  • Languages Required:English
  • Desired:
  • Grade: SB4
  • Vacancy Type: Service Contract (SC)
  • Posting Type: External
  • Bureau: Africa
  • Contract Duration: One year with a possibility of extension

Qualification:

  • Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing;

Experience:

  • A minimum of four (4) years of progressively responsible experience in Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing at national level and at least three (3) years of similar experience on planning and development related international projects or on international level is required;
  • Strong knowhow of Cartography, Photogrammetry and Surveying works;
  • Work experience in technical cooperation and development issues required;
  • Experience with relevant software and UN or similar organization is an asset;
  • Excellent knowledge of the Ethiopian context and particularly aware of the region she/he wants to work in.

How to Apply UN Habitat GIS Expert Jobs 2022

Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.

Then to apply, go to https://jobs.partneragencies.net/erecruitjobs.html?JobOpeningId=41090&HRS_JO_PST_SEQ=1&hrs_site_id=2

The Closing Date: 10th Feb 2022.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.

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