The United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the world's environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the environment.
Under the general supervision of the Head of the Nairobi Convention Secretariat, the consultant will be responsible for developing and managing geospatial information systems related to marine environmental planning. Key responsibilities include:
1. ArcGIS Online Configuration
The Consultant will configure the ArcGIS Online accounts, create and assign users, and establish the groups for the different countries with various group characteristics needed for the development and operation of the Online Atlas.
2. Data Migration and Development of a Standardized Database Model
- All collated thematic layers will be characterized in terms of their visual representations, planned uses in the portal, potential data sources, levels of resolution, and data currency to the greatest extent possible.
- The defined data will then be standardized, through conversion to a common OGC standard format to enable visibility throughout the portal and enable processing and analysis.
- The Consultant will also perform quality assurance checks on the migrated data to ensure that the data collected in the Online Atlas is reliable and suitable for marine spatial planning use.
3. Development of the Interactive Online Atlas
The Consultant will develop an interactive online atlas based on ArcGIS Hub. The ArcGIS Hub license will be available to the Consultant through the Nairobi Convention Secretariat ArcGIS Online Portal. The online atlas will enable the Nairobi Convention Secretariat and Northern Mozambique Channel countries to:
- Connect and communicate with internal and public audiences by creating a data portal for sharing internal GIS data across an organization or with a GIS class.
- Share open data using the Share Open Data template.
- Showcase content related to a specific topic, such as research to restore local habitats or efforts to increase volunteer work within a community.
- Share a volunteer sign-up form as part of different sites on increasing volunteer work within a community.
- Start an outreach campaign with events, surveys, and emails by creating a call-to-action for people to follow various initiatives.
The Atlas will also provide community accounts, which are ArcGIS Online accounts for people who are not members of the NCS ArcGIS Online Portal to access the NCS Hub content and manage GIS applications. These community accounts will grant access to community organizations, a designated ArcGIS Online subscription that separates community accounts from NCS ArcGIS online members accounts.
Qualifications and Special Skills
Required Qualifications:
- Advanced University degree (master’s degree or equivalent) is required in Geographic Information Systems, Information Systems and management, Marine Sciences, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources Management or similar disciplines.
- A minimum of two (2) years of relevant progressive experience in the application of geographic information systems, and information management is required.
- Demonstrated experience in developing GIS solutions for natural resource management applications and maintenance of existing geospatial databases and related metadata systems is required.
Desirable Qualifications:
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience on remote sensing, obtaining biological, geophysical and socioeconomic geospatial datasets and developing geospatial databases is desirable.
- Demonstrated experience in managing projects related to geospatial and geographic information systems is desirable.
- Experience performing quality control assessments for geospatial products is desirable.
- Experience working in a multidisciplinary set up with government and non-government stakeholders including international organizations and local communities is desirable.
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