Earth Observation Analyst

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• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

JOB TITLE: Earth Observation Analyst
TYPE OF CONTRACT: Regular Consultant, Remote
UNIT/DIVISION: PRGF Unit / PRG Division
DUTY STATION (City, Country): Rome, Italy
DURATION: 6 months

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. WFP works to build the resilience of the most vulnerable by tackling the nexus between food and nutrition insecurity, shocks and stressors, and aggravating factors such as land degradation. In collaboration with governments and partners, WFP works to protect, rebuild, strengthen, and diversify livelihoods, while simultaneously building the capacities of communities and governments to manage risks. Through Ecosystem, Community Infrastructure & Livelihoods (ECL) programmes, WFP provides individuals from vulnerable and food insecure households with food or cash-based transfers to help them better meet their household’s short-term food needs, in exchange for their participation in asset creation activities that contribute to building long term food security and/or the restoration of community services.
The Asset Impact Monitoring from Space (AIMS) service, in coordination between the GIS & Remote Sensing (APP-FG) Unit and Ecosystem, Community Infrastructure & Livelihoods (ECL, PPGR), uses satellite imagery and landscape monitoring techniques to evaluate WFP’s ECL programmes. In particular, the integration of satellite technology offers a solution to assess landscape changes derived from ACL interventions to help cope with a lack of timely, long-term, homogeneous, and reliable ground information.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
The consultant hired under these ToRs will be a technical member of the GIS & Remote Sensing Unit of the APP Division. The consultant will report periodically on the progress of the required analytical work, manage the AIMS Service map production, creating static and interactive GIS products:
• Support the AIMS Service map production, create static and interactive GIS products in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online.
• Support the maintenance of the AIMS Platform and report repository; and
• Contribute to technical analyses, analytical briefs, and data management activities.
• Support the development of analytical workflows for AIMS Landscape Impact Assessments and Satellite-powered Community Insights workstreams.
• Develop guidance and deliver training sessions to COs and RBs on the AIMS interactive platform.
• Maintain storage and management of geospatial data and derived analytical products.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Education:
• Advanced University degree in physical geography, biology, physics, or related field

Experience:
• Experience in geospatial analysis, geo-information management, analysis, and processing of VHR imagery
• Good familiarity with ECL projects, their types, scope, and expected outputs

Knowledge & Skills:
• Expert knowledge of GIS software (ARC GIS, Q-GIS) and analytical methodologies.
• Good level of modern high-level programming languages / analytical systems, in particular R and Python as applied to the processing of geophysical data.
• Good presentation and team working skills, with the ability to follow and develop a given scope of work.
• Experience in early warning and remote sensing (interpretation and analysis) and familiarity with the specialty software applications associated with them.

Languages:
• Strong written and oral English skills (proficiency/level C)

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