GIS & Data Management Specialist – Burkina Faso & Niger At SoCha LLC

Company Profile: SoCha, LLC is contracted to provide Monitoring, Reporting, and Capacity Strengthening (MRCS) support to complement and augment USAID Senegal’s Sahel Regional Office (SRO) performance management of activities within its portfolio. MRCS will support Sahel Regional technical Office (SRTO), Sahel Regional Program Office (SRPO), the Niger Mission, the Burkina Faso Country Office, the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) Resilience Food Security Activities (RFSAs) in Niger and Burkina Faso.

Scope of Work:

Develop and expand strategic research and data partnerships.
Produce recurrent activity location maps at both national and subnational levels and develop an annual guidance document specifying the requirements of the maps and visualizations.
Design and implement assigned GIS projects supporting the generation of customized maps and geographic analysis reports and provide on-demand visualization and geographic analyses.
Support tool development and data management for Third Party Monitoring (TPM) activities, utilizing mobile data collection.
Maintain a well-structured geographic information systems database. The database will extend beyond USAID partner data to include other relevant data layers such as Journey to Self-Reliance (J2SR) data/roadmaps, demographics, transportation, and other relevant contextual datasets.
Produce cartographic products using data from third party monitoring (TPM) activities, program evaluations, and special studies and assessments.
Work with TPM staff to collect and clean monitoring and geo-location data.
Collaborate with USAID staff to develop innovative geospatial products that enhance social media posts, stories, and other creative communications content.
Collaborate closely with concerned parties to share information.
Read and interpret technical documents.
Provide GIS and knowledge management training to the USAID Mission and its implementing partners. The training sessions will increase capacities to capture and present relevant geographic data, conduct analysis, and collaborate on making better use of spatial data.
Maintain GIS computer systems and databases.
Perform map reproduction activities according to established techniques.
Other duties as required to meet the GIS needs of the project.

Minimum qualifications and experience:

A bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Geography, Geographic Information Systems, or a related field.
5+ Years of relevant experience at the national level and international affairs in international development.
A minimum of 5 years of experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection.
A minimum of 3 years of conducting analysis of geospatial data.
Experience in the design, monitoring and evaluation of projects.
Experience in the use of computers and software packages, handling management systems.
Experience working with ArcGIS, QGIS, and Microsoft Excel, Word, and Powerpoint.
Proven ability to use, manipulate, and refine spatial and other types of data from a wide array of sources, including experience compiling metadata.
Strong skills in HTML, CSS, MySQL, XHTML.
Solid knowledge and experience with web application frameworks and scripting languages (PHP, JavaScript, ASP) and WordPress.
Solid knowledge and experience with data management and data collection across sources (manual and through API).
Creation of clean, logical, well-documented and re-usable code.
Experience with development and use of maps, charts, and tables for the display of data.
Knowledge and experience of web accessibility.
Good understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues.
Experience working with USAID is preferred.
Experience working with satellite imagery, geospatial policy, GIS editing, cartography or urban geography experience preferred.