UNDP Jobs - 117427- Geospatial Hazard and Risk Intern

Geospatial Hazard and Risk Intern

Location :

Home-based, supporting SDG Integration team based in NewYork

Type of Contract :

Internship

Starting Date :

01-Nov-2024

Application Deadline :

25-Oct-24 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

Intern

Duration of Initial Contract :

6 Months

Time left :

14d 6h 7m

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

6 Months

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UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

The UN Reform Resolution tasks UNDP to provide countries with an “integrator function” to accelerate progress towards the SDGs by tackling multiple interlinked and interdependent development challenges. The UNDP Global Policy Network (GPN) draws on expertise globally to provide more effective responses to the complex development challenges countries face in achieving the SDGs and responding to crisis in an integrated and coherent manner. Anchored in the Crisis Bureau (CB) and the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS), the GPN has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan, which is aligned with the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

An SDG Integration Team located with UNDP’s Global Policy Network (GPN) offers a menu of services emphasizing direct short- to medium-term engagements to respond rapidly to requests from country offices for support on national implementation and monitoring of integrated policy solutions, qualitative and evidence-driven analysis for accelerated progress, and knowledge sharing and upscaling of innovative approaches to sustainable development. The team’s work emphasizes the application of evidence-driven data and analytics for SDG implementation and reporting.

In this regard, advances in digital technology are creating data at unprecedented levels of detail and speed, turning the stories of people’s lives into numbers every minute of every day, across the globe. An important focus of the integration work is to complement traditional data (e.g. national statistics, NHDR like analysis) with new and alternative sources including digital ‘breadcrumbs,’ satellite data, social media to identify emerging trends and gain new perspectives on issues in development.

The GIS Intern will support the SDG Integration Team’s efforts linked with the development of geospatial hazard and risk capabilities within DFx GeoHub, a complex stack of open-source GIS services and applications intended to provide the UNDP policy makers, stakeholders and partners with intuitive geospatial tools and interfaces to support their activities and help them make data driven informed decisions. The Intern will contribute to researching, designing and preparing data related to several types of geospatial risk and hazards including comprehensive reports and documentation.

Duties and Responsibilities

The GIS Intern will be responsible for the following:

Curate and ingest various geospatial data into UNDP spatial database/s (raster and vector) in collaboration with UNDP’s GIS data engineer

Develop/design/apply quality control methods and procedures to ensure the quality control of ingested data

Design cartographic materials (maps/layouts/styles) using standard tools (QGIS, Mapbox styles)

Curate and document geospatial hazards and risk models for several geospatial hazards for the purpose of operational deployment

Test and run geospatial models in containerized medium targeting cloud based operational deployment

Generate data layers from remote sensing data sources for specific geospatial hazards (floods, earthquakes, landslides) using state of the art software libraries and data sources (sentinel, VIIRS, Landsat, etc)

Support with the development of presentations and other documents related to geospatial data

Conduct research/investigations regarding various GIS software/tools/technologies used in the development of GeoHub stack

Competencies

Candidate should have the following competencies:

Self-starter; organized and reliable;

Able to multitask and balance multiple responsibilities;

Demonstrated ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and sensitivity to differing opinions and views.

Required Skills and Experience

Interns are selected on a competitive basis. Applicants to UNDP internships must at the time of application meet one of the following academic requirements:

(a) Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher);

(b) Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor’s level or equivalent);

(c) Have graduated with a university degree (as defined in (a) and (b) above) and, if selected, must start the internship within one-year of graduation.

(d) be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program and undertake the internship as part of this program.

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