GIS Specialist Under Contract at CommercializationmDe-Risking for Agricultural Transformation Project: (Deadline 1 June 2023)

GIS Specialist Under Contract at CommercializationmDe-Risking for Agricultural Transformation Project: (Deadline 1 June 2023)

Job description

41. GIS Specialist (1)

Overall Function of the Position

Reporting to the Head of Management Information System Department and with input and backstopping from the Senior International GIS expert, the Project GIS specialist will be responsible for:

 Provide quantitative and geospatial baselines for land cover (vegetation structure, plant based biodiversity and functional types), land use, land quality (soil, topography), and hydrology (stream flow network, flows) for the project sites (districts).
 Ensure the collection and analysis of data layers via a functional distributed hydrology model to predict the impact of climate, land cover, and land use changes on biodiversity, land and water.
 Develop, calibrate and use DIF to achieve project goals and to then adapt and scale it up to the national scale.
 Assist the project to design a physical template module (describing static properties of topography and soils), land use/land cover module (describing not only what is present, but the biophysical attributes), and a surface climate module (providing the drivers for the land surface).
 Work closely with RAB GIS system to strengthen its capacity to improve the use of the soil database at the center.
 Design and install a web- based “Imisozi DIF” system that incorporates the climate, land cover, land use, topography, and hydrology data layers for the project sites.

Qualifications and Experience:

 Master’s Degree or Bachelor’s degree in Geography, land surveying and Topography.
 Three (3) years of experience for Master’s degree and five (5) years of experience for Bachelor’s Degree in plot mapping, land surveying, delineation of catchment areas,
 Experience with land cover change impacts on catchment scale hydrology and modeling tools is desirable;
 Experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the assembly of quantitative and geospatial baselines for land cover (vegetation structure, plant based biodiversity and functional types), land use, land quality (soils and topography), and hydrology (stream flow networks flows;
 Knowledge and experience with hydrological models and with the necessary data categories;
 Climate data (Tmax, Tmin, W, P);
 River discharge data;
 Reservoir operations (if appropriate);
 Vegetation classification and assumed biophysical attributes;
 Soils (type, depth, texture);
 Experience with local capacity enhancement in GIS and Database Management preferred;
 Fluency in spoken and written English; knowledge of French will be an added advantage;
 Excellent analytical presentation and communication skills;
 Experience in having worked with/ for an International or donor organizations an advantage;
 Good understanding of national agricultural policies;
 Should be fluent in Kinyarwanda, English or French with ability to produce quality reports;
 Familiarity with IDA projects implementation procedures and guidelines, knowledge of IDA Safeguards policies would be an added advantage;
 Strong inter-personal skills with demonstrated experience of working collegially within a team; and,
 Competence in the use of computer software applications including statistical software, spreadsheets, and database and word-processing packages