Posted Aug 19, 2015 12 views
Post Title: Coordinator, Geographic Information Systems Laboratory
2. Duration: Annual (renewable contract)
3. Duty Station: GIS-lab, Lahore
4. Grade: C1
5. Reporting to: Director Species Conservation
6. Duties and Responsibilities:
- Overall supervision of the activities of the WWF-Pakistan GIS-lab.
- Develop and strengthen the relationships with organizations like ICIMOD, SUPARCO, and other government, semi-government and international agencies. Organise meetings and presentations to promote GIS work and enhance collaborative ventures.
- Negotiation of contracts, agreements for the provision of GIS lab services to WWF-Pakistan projects.
- Develop new ideas for GIS projects, to integrate GIS input at the project development stage.
- Prepare the annual and quarterly progress reports for respective directors on demand and for the donors as well.
- Compilation and maintenance of an annual work plan including compliance with the terms of agreements pertaining to work deliverable by the GIS-lab in terms of formal contracts and commitments.
- Maintain the hardware, software and web server resources and Completion of an annual assessment of the hardware and software requirements and human resource needs, including recruitment and in-service training, of the GIS-lab.
- Design and customize the geo-spatial databases, GIS software through or visual basic programming languages under different projects and activities.
- Publishing GIS studies in peer reviewed journals.
- Carry out field surveys for data collection, as and when required.
- Help in capacity building of the GIS team.
- Facilitating visitors to the GIS-lab and visiting scientists and GIS practitioners and frame the products of GIS lab.
7. Required qualifications: A minimum of an MSc degree in Space Sciences/GIS or related subject. Competence in the advanced use of software packages such as eCognition Developer, Erdas Imagine and ESRIs ARCView and ARCInfo.
8. Required experience: A minimum of five years of relevant experience in GIS lab operations, preferably in a management role.
9. Other requirements: Excellent spoken and written English language skills. Competence in an additional scientific language would be an added advantage. A good team player with ability to communicate effectively.
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WWF Pakistan
WWF is a global environmental conservation organization that aims to conserve nature and ecological processes by preserving genetic, species and ecosystem diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable both now and in the longer term and promoting action to reduce pollution and wasteful exploitation and consumption of resources and energy.
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