Jobs - 85641- Geographic and Information System (GIS) and Mappin

Geographic and Information System (GIS) and Mapping Assistant- SC6- UNHABITAT

Location :

Ammn, JORDAN

Type of Contract :

Service Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

11-Jun-19 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

SB-3

Duration of Initial Contract :

Six Months With Possible Extension

Languages Required :

Arabic English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

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 United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) 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. UN-Habitat started its operations in Yemen to address the current crises. UN-Habitat is planning to largely engage in early recovery efforts through its City Profiling Project.

Since 2014, Yemen has been devastated by armed conflict: thousands killed, over 3 million forced to flee homes and more than half the country has been deprived of basic services. 22.2 million people need humanitarian assistance (75% of population), with 17.8 million people food-insecure. 16 million people lack access to safe water and sanitation, with high vulnerability to contagious diseases. The health sector has been subject to extensive damage including acute supplies shortage with only half the health facilities are fully functional. About 23% of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are sheltered in over-crowded collective centres or hazardous settlements, at high risk of eviction and relying on the already strained resources of host communities. Because of the conflict, thousands have died, 2 million are growing without an education, are malnourished or recruited by armed groups. Moreover, the prolonged conflict is eroding the coping mechanisms of affected groups and inflaming further sectarian tensions.

Once the conflict is terminated, the country should be going through a nationwide reconstruction operation, which should take into consideration avoiding past mistakes and building cities and towns that are safer, more inclusive, resilient and sustainable. Hence, it is vital to apprehend urban challenges today and derive immediate, medium and long-term responses towards recovery. In this context, City Profiles are considered a means to address the risks and reality of the humanitarian crises, to mitigate impacts on the most vulnerable, including the displaced, and to enable affected people to determine the course of their futures. They represent an instrument for fostering recovery and contribute to stabilization by empowering urban communities, their leaders and members while in turn guiding investments and capacity building towards this objective.

Duties and Responsibilities

Key Results and Impact:

Urban Information Management System designed and operational in seven cities in Yemen and scalable to other cities in the future.
Damage assessments in seven cities and one Synthesis Report summarizing main findings will be developed using remote sensing methodologies.
Seven City Profiles and up to 16 Neighbourhood Profiles, including Action Plans will be developed.
One National Urban Recovery/ Reconstruction Strategy and up to four City Recovery Strategies will be developed.
One State of Yemeni Cities Report will be developed.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Under the direct supervision of the Head of UN-Habitat Yemen Programme and/or the Urban Planner/HSO, the GIS and Mapping Assistant will be based in UN-Habitat Office in Amman and be responsible for the following duties:

Work closely with UN-Habitat partners on data management, and GIS related matters using various GIS software packages (ArcMap, QGIS);
Record partner 3Ws (i.e. who does what, where) on live GIS maps, with the aim of providing a transparent tool to the concerned authorities and partners and enhance coordination;
Update and maintain UN-Habitat Data Platforms including GIS/Mapping portals, by updating GIS baseline with data gathered by partners;
Carry out data entry and development of data entry templates.
Plan and organize GIS capacity development activities for UN-Habitat staff and counterparts.
Undertake satellite imagery analysis including damage assessment and prepare analysis and methodology report;
Mapping, data collection and spatial analysis in support of ongoing urban profiling activities.
Support to GIS related mapping and analysis as required for UN-Habitat projects;
Provide inputs to strategies, project proposals, and outreach materials related to UN-Habitat different projects;
Perform any other duties as assigned by Head of UN-Habitat Yemen Programme.

Competencies

Core Competencies:

Leadership: Proactively seeks and recognizes contributions of others; Actively engages teams and encourages dialogue within and across teams; Determines appropriate resources, methods, partners, information and solutions.

Innovation: Adapts deliverables to meet client needs; Interprets policies and guidance within context and applies with judgment; Anticipates obstacles and applies practical solutions; Continually seeks improvement and agility in service delivery; Collaborates to improve methods and delivery.

People Management: Appropriately involves team in different stages of work and decision-making; Seeks and values other’s initiatives and expertise; Supervises teams with consistent direction and drives team engagement.

Communication & Relationship Management: Expresses information and views with adaptive reasoning and appreciation for complexity and variation; Proactively expresses insights and/or questions in order to contribute to clarity, accuracy, and focus in one’s work; Speaks on behalf of team with professionalism and integrity consistent with UN values

Delivery: Takes responsibility for addressing critical situations and delivering core value; Demonstrates commitment to clients and quality; Works to agreed goals dealing with challenges constructively; Responsible for project implementation and/or team deliverables; Ability to exercise sound judgement in delivering services and supervising teams.

Technical Competencies:

Crisis Assessment: Ability to use methods, tools and regional analysis to determine impact of various elements for crisis and post crisis situations.

Information Systems & Technology: Knowledge of IST innovations and concepts and ability to apply them to strategic and/or practical situations.

Knowledge Curation: Ability to turn raw information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to stated need

Design Thinking: Knowledge of method (s) for practical, creative resolution of problems and creation of solutions, with the intent of an improved future result.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Minimum College Diploma in Cartography, Geography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and/or related field of studies is required.

Experience:

Four professional experience in geographic information system integration, geographic/terrain analysis, image processing, mapping, GPS, geo-spatial related information technology, ArcGIS (ArcInfo, ArcEditor, ArcView and its extensions), ERDAS Imagine (preferred), GeoNode (preferred). Knowledge of geographic information system design and development, geo-database design and management, software programming languages and web technology is desirable.

Language Requirements: For the post advertised, fluency in oral and written Arabic and English is essential.

Others: Excellent computer skills, working knowledge of office automation software and practical knowledge of information technology are desirable; Knowledge and practical experience of the following software is highly desirable: ArcGIS Server (or equivalent); Web mapping technology (WMS, WFS, etc); RDBMS (Oracle, Informix, MS SQL Server, etc.); Other GIS software such as MapInfo, etc. Experience of graphic art software such as Adobe Illustrator is also highly desirable. Experience with an UN organization will be an asset.

Notes:

Equally qualified women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Only short-listed candidates will be notified.
Candidates are encouraged to submit their application electronically.
UN-Habitat reserves the right to re-classify the post.