We currently have a vacancy for a GIS Expert, fluent in English, to offer his/her services as an expert who will be based in Ispra, Italy. The work will be carried out either in the companys premises or on site at customer premises. In the context of the first assignment, the successful candidate will be integrated in the Development team of the company that will closely cooperate with a major clients IT team on site.
Your tasks
Design of specific data processing workflows solving needs of the Exposure Mapping Component of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) to produce population density grids;
Preparation of population census data as input for the population modelling and multi-temporal estimate, including the harmonisation of spatial units, identification and solution of inconsistencies in the population census data;
Refinement of the downscaling workflow to improve the generation of population grids beyond the census epoch;
Implementation of the processing workflows in distributed processing environments (parallel processing) in support of the population grid production tasks;
Monitoring the execution of the population grid production tasks, evaluate of the results, and solve problems when identified;
Implementation of the DEGURBA methodology to the generated population grids and production of population statistics by DEGURBA;
Documentation and update of the above software components and derived data sets;
Contribute to technical reports describing the experiments and revision of technical documents;
Support the preparation of training material for use of the tools by the project partner;
Interaction with the project leaders, project team members, customer, users, and the developers.
Requirements
Masters degree in IT or relevant discipline, combined with minimum 17 years of relevant working experience in IT;
At least 5 years of experience in geospatial analysis of human settlements and degree of urbanization;
At least 5 years of experience in population modelling and geospatial downscaling;
Excellent knowledge of (geospatial) scientific programming languages including Matlab and Python;
Excellent knowledge of GIS software and tools, in particular ArcGIS, QGIS and GDAL;
Good knowledge of geospatial data analysis;
Good knowledge of population modelling approaches;
Excellent command of the English language.
Benefits
If you are seeking a career in an exciting and dynamic company, where you will offer your services as part of a team of a major European Institution, operating in an international, multilingual and multicultural environment where you can expect real chances to make a difference, please send us your detailed CV in English.
We offer a competitive remuneration (either on contract basis or remuneration with full benefits package), based on qualifications and experience. All applications will be treated as confidential.
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