Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) ,Regional GIS Officer Jobs in Uganda

Job Title: Regional GIS Officer

Organisation: Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About ACTED:

ACTED is an International 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 a

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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.

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.

Job Summary: The GIS Officer will be responsible for the 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;

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Co-developing GIS components in proposals
and supervising the implementation of these GIS components in approved projects;

Mentor and 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 in liaison
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. 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;
Actively monitor
accuracy of data collected.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

High degree of
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.
Good knowledge
and 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.

Benefits:

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