GIS Officer

The Rene Moawad Foundation (RMF) is seeking a “GIS Officer” for its new USAID-funded “Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods- PSL” Project. The PSL project will be implemented over the course of 5 years and aims to improve the livelihoods of residents of target municipalities through training, technical assistance, infrastructure rehabilitation, and marketing and improve and upgrade existing assets in their municipalities. The PSL goal is to sustain the livelihoods of 31,500 households across 7 clusters joining 105 municipalities in the North, Bekaa, South and Mount Lebanon areas (first phase).

Duties and Responsibilities 

The GIS officer will work directly with the Livelihood Manager and will assist the team in the mapping exercise, his/her Essential Responsibilities and Duties are:

1. Review and prepare business requirements analyses and process efficiency tools on GIS.
2. Design, develop, configure, and support GIS applications and building visualizations and data collection applications
3. Establish and manage GIS database structure, tables, forms, and reports of GIS data for the selected clusters
4. Work on the development of dashboard(s).
5. Compile statistics for monthly reports.
6. Compile Geographic Data from a variety of sources upon request.
7. Compile statistics, maps, charts as required by the PSL Senior team.
8. Provide training to ensure effective adoption and autonomous support of new tools that are deployed, including training design and training delivery for the Field Team.
9. Coordinate with PSL Senior team to develop materials needed for public meetings, workgroups, council meetings, and other meetings as needed.

Function Specific Experience

• Experience in conducting systems requirements analyses, design and development of decision support tools.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL or any other database tool.
• Experience in remote sensing.
• Working experience with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is an asset.

Competencies

• Ability to work under time pressure, in a high-tempo environment;
• Exercises sound judgment in identifying priority issues from information received;
• Developed interpersonal skills;
• Good liaison skills;
• Identifies the need for follow up actions on information received and ensures they are taken expeditiously; 
• Demonstrates professional competence;
• Accurately judges the amount of time and resources needed to accomplish a task and matches task to skills; 
• Informs his/her supervisor of unsolved problematic issues.

Professional Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in GIS planning and development;
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in area-based planning, spatial planning, territorial planning;
• Extensive knowledge of the Lebanese municipal context and development processes and institutions;
• Proficiency in report writing, case studies and other related documentation;
• Proficiency in English and Arabic.