GIS Officer

General mission

The Information Management & GIS Officer ensures the use of data management tools on the project(s) and/or in the geographical area(s) of intervention to which he/she is assigned, as defined in the data management system framework established by the Regional/Standalone MEAL Manager. The IM & GIS Officer is responsible for geographical and spatial mapping of data, which can come in a range of formats including cartographic, photographic, digital, or in tables and spreadsheets. The IM & GIS Officer will support information management through assisting in data collection form coding, database development, and data analysis of the program data of HI projects. He/ she will need to explain geographic trends and findings from their analysis to donor agencies and stakeholders. He or she controls the quality of the different data transiting the system. As well as, ensuring the accuracy and protection of all data collected in the projects, in addition for qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

Missions / responsibilities

Mission 1: Information management implementation

Responsibility 1:

• Contributes to the development of tools
• Participates in the development of data collection forms (paper or mobile data collection (MDC));
• Creates the corresponding databases; 
• Carries out tests on the input and extraction of data.
• Supports the management of the Survey CTO online server for data collection.

Responsibility 2:

• Supervises (or carries out) data inputting
• Trains and supports the teams responsible for inputting data from paper forms into the database (in the case of paper data collection) or the field teams in charge of the day-to-day use of MDC tools when available (primarily on Survey CTO)
• Ensures that the data in the database is up-to-date or regularly synchronized.
• Inputs data, if the organization requires. 

Responsibility 3:

• Carries our data processing and cleaning
• Centralizes information and compiles the updated version of the database;
• Sets up and runs a regular series of tests to check the quality of the data and identify potential errors;
• Takes appropriate action to correct or neutralize identified errors;
• Develops mechanisms to automate quality testing as much as possible;
• Performs regular or on-demand data extractions;
• Puts simple calculations in place on the database to perform first level analysis or prepares analysis that are more complex.
• Generate comprehensive data for reporting on key variables (per community, gender, type of vulnerability).
• Routine follow up on the data management and analysis, and regular update and reporting on the progress (challenges, achievements, etc.).
• Prepare monthly dashboards and factsheets to ensure the targets and indicator progress follow up.

Responsibility 4:

• Archives the databases
• During the course of the project, makes regular backups and archives the intermediate versions of the databases;
• At the end of the project, prepares and archives the final version of the databases and deletes the intermediary versions in the different storage spaces.

Responsibility 5:

• Identifies measures to improve data quality
• In conjunction with the project teams and the MEAL teams, proposes measures to improve data quality.
• Monitors and alerts if errors occur during a data collection exercise so that corrective action can be taken and future errors limited.

Responsibility 6:

• Data protection
• Ensures data protection protocols in line with the mission data protection policy.
• Inform the field staff about Principal and Laws to be followed up for data protection during the data processing.

Responsibility 7:

• Ensure regular follow up and compliance of Complaint Feedback Response Management System 
• Ensure regular complaints and feedbacks documentation, follow up and sharing with management.
• Keep the CFRM database updated and share with the line manager on bi weekly basis.

Mission 2:

• Emergency preparedness and response
• Contributes to the programme’s emergency preparedness actions and, in an emergency, adapts his or her working methods to contribute to an effective humanitarian approach by HI.

Mission 3:

• Geographical Information Management systems and mapping:
• Coordinate developing requirements for database and geo database design.  
• Collect, store, analyze and present geographical and spatial information for donor agencies and external stakeholders.
• Undertake desk-based data capture (digitizing) to convert paper maps to GIS datasets.
• Create and maintain the structures necessary for GIS data storage.
• Develop tools for analyzing GIS data between different systems.
• Manipulate, analyze, and present geographical information by creating programs to convert GIS information from one format to another.
• Produce reports on geographic data utilizing data visualizations.
• Managing a digital library of geographic maps in various file types.

Skills

Language skills:

• Can speak Urdu and English
• Has excellent written English skills

Professional skills: 

• Professional skills: IM/GIS profession 
• Results and indicators monitoring.
• Planning and coordination of qualitative and quantitative surveys, dissemination of findings
• Project evaluation
• Accountability to populations: participatory, non-discriminatory and responsible approaches
• Learning lessons from experience and continuous learning
• Information management strategy, data structuring and data quality
• Quantitative and qualitative data collection, qualitative analysis
• Responsible data management
• Knowledge using Power
• Statistical analysis and data visualization
• Database programming languages such as SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and various mapping languages.
• Mapping tools such as QGIS, Carto and GPS.
• IT skills, including the use and manipulation of complex databases and spreadsheets.

Other professional skills:

• Project management; Planning, monitoring and coordination
• Information Systems Division; IT fundamentals
• Inclusion; DGA intersectionality
• Protection ; Data protection

Cross-Sector Skills:

• Frameworks and references
• Office and collaborative tools
• Stress management
• Working in a global organization

Qualifications: 

Degree in computer science specializing in data management / information management, graphic designing, spatial analytics/ geographic information systems, 

Experience: 

• Two years of Geographic Information Systems experience at the full performance level designing, maintaining, and producing geospatial data and map production.
• Proficiency with database programming languages such as SQL.
• Proficiency with front-end design languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and various mapping languages.
• Experience with mapping tools such as QGIS and Carto.
• Experience with primary data collection such as XLSForm coding, Kobo/ODK, SurveyCTO
• Outstanding quantitative skill set.