GIS Specialist – Emergency Support

Vor 2 Tagen

Genf, Schweiz Cagi Vollzeit

Médecins Sans Frontières is an independent, international medical and humanitarian organization that provides care to people in need, affected by natural or man-made disasters, and victims of armed conflict, without discrimination and without regard to race, religion, creed or political affiliation (MSF Charter). The MSF movement is built around 5 operational centers supported by 24 sections and offices worldwide.

The GIS at MSF has been developed as a service to MSF operations since 2013. In January 2021, the GIS services were transformed into an Intersectional Centre of Expertise & Services effectively serving the full Movement. The GIS Centre is coordinated out of Geneva and organized as a network of internal and external partners spread out across France, Austria, and Czech Republic.

MSF’s GIS core mission is to support informed decision-making through better spatial comprehension, enhancing the focus of health services around patients, and increasing the impact and efficiency of MSF’s regular and emergency interventions. The GIS Service team aims to provide an inter-MSF operational support system, thanks to a framework of dedicated tools and services, that is reliable, agile, adapted to emergency contexts and needs, timely, and efficient.

The position will divide his/her time between field missions (50%) and the GIS Centre team at head office (50%).

The GIS Specialist – Emergency Support begins the first phase of emergency support remotely at HQ with standardized GIS products (e.g., rapid maps, reference maps, context maps). He/she also actively participates in GIS emergency support coordination, data integration, and external products harvesting.

When deployed to missions, he/she applies his/her expertise into field projects and coordinations for the countries of intervention of the Emergency Pool, whether for a particular OC or in intersection. He/she provides strategic technical support to coordination and field according to MSF GIS Centre policies, guidelines, and procedures in order to support the broad operational objectives of the missions.

Aiming to respond to the needs of the missions requesting GIS support, he/she responds within short deadlines to identify GIS needs, mostly focusing on support to emergency response & preparedness, exploratory missions, and/or other support to emergency projects, adopting whenever possible the GIS Centre ways of working the Emergency Response Kit (Rapid Map, Explo Kit, Scenario response maps kit) either deployed or from OC office.

He/she performs background capitalization tasks that focus on enhancing MSF GIS Centre emergency preparedness and foster common best practices with decentralized flying teams.

Responsibilities

He/She ensures high-quality GIS response to emergencies by being:

  • Responsible for providing structured and gradual GIS support to missions for emergencies (maps, GeoApp and dynamic products, mobile data collection, earth observation products, data, etc.)
  • Actively participating in the coordination of GIS emergency responses, especially for intersection work
  • Responsible for providing support to missions for emergency preparedness plans
  • Participating in the improvement of processes and products delivered by the GIS Centre for emergencies
  • Gathering feedback from GIS Flyings on GIS Products & Services on offer
  • Participating actively in the communication between the centralized Mapping team and decentralized Flying team
  • Participating in on-call support for emergencies outside of regular working hours
Your Profile

Education

  • Tertiary degree in engineering, geography, GIS, cartography, surveying, geology, computer science/studies or related field or equivalent experience.
  • Post-graduate diploma/certificate/proven experience in humanitarian GIS or data management, and project management is a strong asset.

Experience

  • 3 to 5 years of work experience in humanitarian/GIS humanitarian is required.
  • 1 year of work experience in a similar role
  • Experience in an international and multicultural environment.
  • Excellent understanding of the humanitarian sector and the application of GIS within the sector
  • Mastering various tools in Esri suite
  • Natural leadership and influence in teamwork
  • Excellent knowledge of project management and time management
  • Strong capacity to capture end-user needs and a good sense of support.
  • Knowledge of Mobile Data Collection tools is an asset.
  • Knowledge of FME or other integration tools is a plus.
  • Knowledge of QGIS is a plus.

Languages

  • Fluent in English and French (oral and written), both are mandatory.

Personal Abilities/Qualities

  • Outstanding capacity to deliver.
  • Autonomous and very well organized
  • Excellent team player and supportive
  • Strong oral and written presentation skills
  • Quality and results-oriented.
  • Openness, curiosity, practical and pragmatic spirit
  • Committed to MSF values.
Terms of Employment
  • Full-time position 100% (40h/week)
  • Fixed-ended contract
  • Gross annual salary (for 100%): from CHF 86’508.- to CHF 99’612.- (salary commensurate with equivalent experience and internal salary grid)
  • Paid vacation: 25 days per year, prorate temporis, plus any Swiss public holidays falling within the contract period.
  • Pension plan: pension contribution covered 3/4 by MSF, 1/4 by staff member.
  • Relocation package if moving from a different country to Switzerland.
How to apply

Candidates should submit their application following the requirements: CV (2 pages max) – letter of motivation (1 page max) – in French or English.

Deadline for application is August 15th, 2024.

We reserve the right to close the position early if we consider the number and quality of applications received to be sufficient.

The applications will be treated confidentially.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Only applications submitted on our recruitment platforms will be considered.

Please note that we do not wish to use the services of recruitment or placement agencies.

At MSF, we are committed to an inclusive culture that encourages and supports the diverse voices of our staff members. We strive to create workplaces where teams of people with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, perspectives, ideas, and experiences work together for the social mission of MSF to create better outcomes for our patients and the communities we work with.

We welcome applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, backgrounds, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics.

MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of discrimination or harassment, including sexual harassment. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo reference checks.

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