GIS Specialist (Geographical Information System) at World Health Organization (WHO)

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

The specific functions of the incumbent are:

• Provide technical support to the incident management team in developing effective tools and processes to collect, manage and combine spatial datasets.2
• Conduct geospatial analysis on collected datasets; create maps, infographics, and other cartographic products on a regular and ad-hoc basis; in response to functional team leads' technical needs.
• Standardize and clean geospatial datasets and associated attributes across incident management system specific datasets.
• Lead field data collection efforts as necessary using different data collection techniques such as mobile data collection devices and applications.
• Provide inputs in developing the tools for loading/transferring GIS data between different systems; design and maintain the structures necessary for GIS data storage.
• Manipulate presentation of geographical information by creating programs to convert GIS information from one format to another.
• Adapt tools to join together different GIS datasets and create new information or investigate patterns, e.g. estimating the number of people affected by the incident, etc.Perform any other related incident-specific duties, as required by the functional supervisor

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• Essential: Bachelor degree in geography, cartography, GIS, information management, engineering, geometrics, computer or earth sciences from an accredited/recognized institute.
• Desirable: Post graduate courses in GIS.

Experience

• Essential: At two years' relevant experience, combined at the national and international levels in GIS management, using different GIS tools such as QGIS, other open sources, GIS software and/or ArcGIS Online. Experience in supporting field data collection in emergency or humanitarian context.
• Desirable: Experience in emergency disaster and health outbreak response, particularly in developing countries. Prior humanitarian working experience at field level, with WHO/UN agencies, health cluster partners, recognized humanitarian organizations or with an international nongovernmental organization.

Skills

• Thorough knowledge of data management/ICT skill; Strong analytical skill