Palladium  is looking for Geographical Information System (GIS) Consultant – PRISMA, Indonesia

 

Company Overview:

Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.

For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of more than 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved – and is committed to continuing to improve – economies, societies and most importantly, people’s lives.

Palladium is a child-safe organisation, and screens applicants for suitability to work with children. We also provide equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.

Background of the Program and Intervention:

Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Promoting Rural Incomes through Support for Markets in Agriculture (PRISMA) is a multi-year development program working to accelerate poverty reduction through inclusive economic growth. PRISMA adopts a market systems development approach by partnering with key-stakeholders to improve agriculture market efficiency and sustainably benefit the poor. The program aims to achieve an income increase for a total of 1,000,000 smallholder farming households by 2023. It operates in six provinces of Central Java, East Java, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), West Papua, and Papua.

Over the years since PRISMA was first established, a massive amount of data has been accumulated from the numerous activities that PRISMA has been conducting. If utilised, this data could prove to be beneficial to support the existing or future PRISMA’s interventions and could provide meaningful insights to all PRISMA’s staffs, especially to implementation teams rather than just being stored inside the database. One of the best ways to present and visualise the data is by turning the relevant data into strategic maps. This would make it easier and more convenient for all the PRISMA staff and would encourage to better use the abundant data that PRISMA have for creating better strategy.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

The GIS Consultant will be responsible in providing simple module (based on the created map) and doing step by step tutorial to create map based on the data that chosen by the GIS Team.

The GIS consultant will be responsible for conducting on the job training on GIS Team based on the agreed map. The GIS Consultant also responsible to ensure the completion of the agreed map that have been decided by GIS Team. In summary, the main tasks are:

  • To provide on the job training with the GIS Team on a specific project decided by PRISMA within 5 (five) working days, the consultant shall be responsible to ensure that the necessary knowledge to produce the expected outcome by PRISMA will be well transferred to the GIS Team.
  • To ensure the completion of the agreed maps [RR1]based on PRISMA’s data and to ensure that the maps shall be meaningful to convey results of analysis through clear visualisation.
  • To employ and implement any viable techniques and technologies that are requested by GIS Team.
  • To dutifully follow the workplan that has been assigned by the GIS Team. Any changes that the consultant feel need to be revised should be first communicated to and agreed by the GIS Team.

Required Qualifications:

  1. Have a good understanding and proficient in using QGIS programs (e.g. remote sensing).
  2. Able to provide QGIS training materials.
  3. Have experience in delivering training and technical guidance for QGIS program.
  4. Relevant and proven working experience as Geographic Information System Officer/Consultant.
  5. Have a laptop and able to work remotely.
  6. Have a good communication skills.
  7. Able to deliver work on time.

Female candidates and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

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