Water Resources Database /GIS Specialist.

                                         VACANCY:

Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiaries Action Program

Position: Water Resources Database /GIS Specialist.

Ref: NEL/ RD/2012/01.

Category:        Regional Position.

Eligibility:       NELSAP Countries.

Duty Station   : Kigali, Rwanda, with extensive travel in the Nile Equatorial Lakes

                       Region.

Reporting to:    Programme Officer Water Resource management and development.

Employment terms: `1 years renewable depending on performance and availability of

                                       Funds.....

Deadline:  January ``18^th 2013

Background

The Nile Basin Initiative is a partnership of the riparian states of the Nile. The Nile equatorial lakes Subsidiary Action program (NELSAP)a subsidiary action program of the NBI ,covering the countries of  Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo ,Ethiopia, Egypt, Rwanda, Kenya,Sudan,Tanzania,and Uganda. Its mission is to contribute the eradication of poverty to promote economic growth and to contribute towards reversal of environmental degradation in the NEL Region.NELSAP promotes investments in power development and trade and natural resource management and development, over sees the preparation of the jointly Identified subsidiary action program and promotes cooperative investment projects related to the common use of Nile Basin Water Resources. The NELSAP now wishes to recruit a water resources database /GIS specialist to support its functions.

2 FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILTIES:

The Responsibilities of the position will include but are not limited to:

• Development and maintenance of NELSAP and River Basin water Resources information database including hydrometeorology ,irrigation, hydropower development data:
• Development and maintenance of the NELSAP and River Basin Geographical information system.
• Development of Hydro meteorological data monitoring framework and support its implementation in the NEL Countries including capacity building in data manipulation, network planning, maintenance and data processing.
• Archiving and consolidation of socio-economic information related to water resource planning and development.
• Develop and maintain a document management and quality assurance system for water resources documents including documents produced by the various projects, records ad knowledge support documentation.
• Provide data Manipulation support to NELSAP projects in formats required for planning, monitoring and evaluation and project reporting.
• Perform related duties as assigned by the program officer for Water Resources Management and Development.

Qualification and experience

• Advanced degree in Water Resource management, Water Resource Engineering Hydro-Informatics or related field.
• At least 7 years of experience involving manipulation, quality assurance and control of Hydrometeorogical information, use of remote sensing and GIS in Water resources Planning and development projects
• Strong and demonstrated skills in use of ESRI and ERDAS imaging software, Hydro-meteorogical and relational databases: and spreadsheets.
• Good management skills including ability   to provide strategic, guidance, technical oversight, prepare work plan and manage budgets and project expenditure.
• Excellent team work and interpersonal skills in operating collaboratively across operational boundaries on a wide range of technical issues as well as networking with ministry –level partners development partners and NGOs.
• Ability to deliver capacity building activities regarding the use of databases, IS and remote sensing systems.
• Demonstrate writing, presentation and reporting skills. originating from the
• Fluency in spoken and written English or French Language with working knowledge of the other language.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should submit an on line application and attach CV (clearly indicating the reference above.) to the NELSAP   Region Coordinator on.

nelcu@nilebasin.org   copied to nelcuvacancy@nilebasin.org by January 18^th 2013.

Priority will be given to Nationals originating from the NELSAP countries region seeking balance among Countries represented in NELSAP staff as a whole. Only Applicants who fully meet the NBI requirements and are being considered for interview will be contacted.Applications received after the closing date shall not be considered.

The NBI is an equal opportunities employer and female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.