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Regional GIS Officer - Uganda
Position Title: Regional GIS Officer - Uganda
Department: Program
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Organization:ACTED - Agence d’Aide à la Coopération Technique et au Développement (Agency for
Technical Cooperation)
Employment Type:Full Time Permanent
Contract duration: 6 months
Reports to:Area Coordinator
Ref : RGIS/UG/SA
Application Deadline:Feb 28, 2015
Sectors:Civil Society & NGOs, Mapping & Cadastre
Work experience: From 1 year to more than 20 years
Starting Date: ASAP
I. Background on ACTED
ACTED is a French humanitarian NGO, founded in 1993, which supports
vulnerable populations, affected by humanitarian crises worldwide. ACTED
provides continued support to vulnerable communities by ensuring the
sustainability of post-crisis interventions and engaging long-term challenges
facing our target populations, in order to break the poverty cycle, foster
development and reduce vulnerability to disasters. Our interventions seek to
cover the multiple aspects of humanitarian and development crises through a
multidisciplinary approach which is both global and local, and adapted to each
context. Our 3,300 staff is committed in to responding to emergencies
worldwide, to supporting recovery and rehabilitation, towards sustainable
development.
Our teams in the field implement some 340 projects in 34 countries covering
the following sectors emergency relief, food security, access to health,
education and training, economic development, microfinance, advocacy,
institutional support, and regional dialogue, cultural promotion.
Based on considerable experience addressing the needs and situations of
vulnerable communities, ACTED contributes to the international agenda towards
reaching the Millennium Development Goals, through a wide range of
partnerships, innovative initiatives, and campaigns.
II. Country Profile
Capital Office : Kampala
National Staff : 108
International Staff : 7
Areas : 2 (Northern Uganda, Karamoja)
On-going programmes : 9
Budget : 2.4 M €
ACTED has been active in Uganda since May 2007, both in the northern region
and Karamoja. In the North, ACTED supports the early recovery process with a
specific focus on the needs of returning populations displaced by years of
conflict. It also expands access, retention, equity and quality of primary
education. In Karamoja, the focus is enhanced food security and resilience to
disasters, especially droughts, as well as improving the primary education
sector.
ACTED focuses its intervention on strengthening livelihoods through
improved resource management, conflict mitigation and capacity building.
In Northern Uganda, as internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned
home and gained access to land, ACTED is working with farmers on infrastructure
and capacity development to rebuild agricultural livelihoods. In the
Karamoja/Pokot area, ACTED responds to severe food insecurity caused by the
drought in the Horn of Africa, providing support to agro-pastoral communities
to increase their purchasing power and protect their assets, reducing
vulnerability to natural disasters. As
part of its integrated cross-border strategy between Uganda and Kenya, ACTED
maintains its community-driven disaster risk reduction (DRR) focus and promotes
conflict mitigation to ensure peaceful and sustainable access to shared
resources.
In 2013, ACTED maintains a strong focus on this approach and looks at
extending it further along the border with Kenya. ACTED continues working with
community-level structures and initiatives such as the APFS, the CDMCs or the
DEWS to continue building the communities’ resilience to disasters.
III. Position Profile
The GIS Officer reports directly to Area Coordinator
GIS Officer responsibilities
include:
1. General
• Preparation, conception
and production of maps, including the supervision and monitoring of
mapping-related data collection and ensuring dynamic linkages between GIS data
and ACTED Database;
• Co-developing GIS
components in proposals and supervising the implementation of these GIS
components in approved projects;
• Train the AMEU team on
usage of maps and GPS;
• Represent ACTED in GIS
related coordination meetings.
2. Preparation, conception
and production of maps
• Identify map information
needs;
• Identify and access map
information sources;
• Work closely with the
Database Manager to ensure an accurate link between the GIS and the Database
data, cross check data collected in the field and to develop dynamic links
between Database and GIS data and to ensure regular updates and solve eventual
discrepancies;
• Ensures that the produced
maps meet the requirements of concerned ACTED departments.
3. C. Supervision and
monitoring of mapping related data
• Conceptualize
methodologies for collecting GPS and other GIS related data, as according to
need;
• Organize and supervise
GIS field missions;
• Managing and supervising
the GIS assistant and the staff on the GIS;
• Monitor accuracy of data
collected.
IV. Qualifications:
- Flexibility and adaptability
are essential, as well as the ability to plan, take initiative and organize
work independently. In addition Impartiality, objectivity and confidentiality
are imperative;
- Good command of GIS software
(especially those used by ACTED), Excel, Word and Database software such as
Access or Foxpro. Familiarity with other information and data sources related
to GIS to be recommended to ACTED for better GIS practices would be an asset.
- Understanding the nature of
the work carried out by programs is necessary for ensuring the relevancy and
usability of the maps produced. Therefore a proactive and self-motivated
attitude towards gaining a good understanding of ACTED programs, innovating GIS
activities and developing new GIS components for proposals is essential;
- Willingness to learn and
capacity to innovate: The GIS Manager must be inventive and eager to improve
his or her own skills, and be capable to adapt, shape and develop tools best
suited for ACTED’s activities
- Ability to travel to the
field for data collection, cross-checking the data and provide training to
field staff;
- Good organizational and
communication skills with international and national staff and rural
communities.
IV. Conditions
- Salary defined by the ACTED salary grid; educational level, expertise,
hardship, security, and performance are considered for pay bonus
- Additional monthly living allowance
- Free food provided + housing allowance
- Transportation costs covered, including additional return ticket +
luggage allowance
- Provision of medical, life, and repatriation insurance + retirement
package
V. Submission of applications:
Please send, in English, your cover letter, CV, and three references to
jobs@acted.org
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