Date: 18/03/16
JOB VACANCY GIS Officer
Title: GIS Officer
Direct
Reports: Logistics
Position
status: Full
Time
Location:
Kigoma region – Frequent travel required
to projects
Positions
opened: 1
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INTRODUCTION
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international,
independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to
people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion
from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective
of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. MSF is therefore guided by the principles of
neutrality and impartiality. These principles must
apply to all MSF staff.
Required Criteria
Minimum
Educational Qualification
University Diploma in Geographical Information System or Geomatic
Experience:
Required – At least one to two years in
specialist area. Experience managing data collection, entry and maintenance.
Experience in managing or developing
databases. Strong practical experience in using Geographic Information
Systems (GIS).
Desirable – Good knowledge of local
administration and Experience with MSF or other NGO
Languages:
English (fluent, oral & written), Swahili
required, French will be an asset
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Main competencies and knowledge
n Computer literacy
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Result, Teamwork and flexibility
Main Responsibilities
- Organize the mission’s geographical
information system and produce in real time a spatial analysis of the
situation in the field. Work in close collaboration with the
epidemiologist and data processing officer in charge of collecting and
encoding all medical data. Provide support to all medico-operational
activities, such as logistics, outreach, WHS, security, project and
mission leadership, communication and reporting, health promotion, etc.
- Main tasks and duties include: Direct
liaison with staff to identify GIS needs and develop appropriate GIS
products. Manage response and
prioritization of requests for map products and services. Manage the development,
quality control and reproduction of products in appropriate formats.
Identify, gather and incorporate external datasets into the MSF repository.
Maintain and expand the data repository and related metadata; Work with
data to create themes and layers for use in GIS; Conduct analysis and
relate separate datasets to create analytical products. Manage training
and skills development support to staff with simple mapping, Google
Earth, use of GPS.
- In charge of briefings to new arrivals
(expats and national staff) on use of GIS tools in MSF project.
- Collects various security data from Field
Coordinators and Log Coordinator, analyses and compiles them in order to
set up and implement an interactive map which contains all reported
security incidents.
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APPLICATION
INFORMATION:
All interested applicants should submit a
CV, supporting documents (copies of diplomas…) and phone number
To: MSF Tanzania, Kigoma – please deposit CVs at MSF Offices, Kigoma. Please
mark the envelope with GIS Officer
Deadline
for the submission of Applications is 5pm Thursday 24 March.
! Only applications in English will be considered. Please
note that only short listed candidates will be
contacted.
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