Organisation: Agency for Technical
Cooperation and Development (ACTED)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
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 and 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 Intern will be responsible
for:
- Technically supporting
the development and maintenance of a global database for the consolidation
of all project-related, assessment-related and GIS data at the country
level - Supporting in
project-level mapping and planning participatory GIS activities - Increasing the capacity
of national staff in GIS and spatial data management - Supporting project-level
database creation and information management mechanisms
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Supporting
the maintenance of a global database for the consolidation of all
project-related, assessment-related and GIS data:
- Assist the Database
Officer(s) and GIS team in maintaining the global database, consolidating
data collected from all ACTED /partner activities within country - Regularly review database
management guidelines and ensure capitalization of tools and procedures - Support the collection
and management of spatial datasets, and verify and update collected data - Actively monitor the
accuracy of collected data - Support the integration
of existing information between ACTED units and maintain regular updating
mechanism - Propose and implement new
technical solutions and partnerships - Quickly respond to
information requests from ACTED Units - Streamline process moving
raw data to mapped end products - Solicit information from
partner organizations to be incorporated into database
2. Technical
Support to the DB/GIS team:
- Offer technical
backstopping of database to GIS/DB team - Provide capacity-building
to GIS/DB team related to database maintenance and advanced GIS techniques
3. Regular
interactions and reporting with key partners including cluster lead agencies,
UNOSAT, UNOCHA and technical partners:
- Support the development
of joint database tools and processes with ACTED partners in country - Respond to information
requests from ACTED partners related to MIS data and mapping - Works in consultation
with partners to ensure that data is shared with ACTED MIS team when
required - Support the collection of
spatial datasets and integration with REACH activities
4. Field
level support of online mapping tool and other REACH program products:
- Actively participate in
continued development of web-based mapping tools at the field level - Ensure the update process
from field to web publishing is organized and well documented - Liaise with IMPACT Geneva
to guarantee a quality product that suits the needs of the field office
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant should hold
a Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Information Systems, GIS, or
a relevant discipline - Past experience in
database and general computer software (such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL and
Access) - Prior experience with
industry standard mapping tools, especially ESRI products - Possess the ability to
think creatively in terms of tool and process development - Ability to travel to the
field - High degree of
flexibility and adaptability to ever-changing needs and responsibilities
Field Intern benefits include:
- 300 USD per month living
allowance - Coverage of all
accommodation, guesthouse, food, and travel costs, a luggage allowance of
50 kg - The provision of medical,
repatriation, and life insurance.
All candidates
should send and updated cover letter, updated CV, and three references to:
jobs@acted.org
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