Job Detail

Project Background:

Combating land degradation and biodiversity loss by promoting sustainable rangeland management and biodiversity conservation project is a five year intervention of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) funded through the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This project aims to improve the sustainability of agriculture, forest, and land-use management through rehabilitating degraded rangelands, biodiversity conservation and enhancing and maintaining the livelihoods of Afghan rural communities in Khost, Laghman and Nuristan provinces in          Afghanistan by employing the community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) approach. The project has three major components: (i) capacity-building at the national, sub-national, and district levels in community based natural resources management for sustainable rangeland and forest planning; (ii) Integrated management and restoration of degraded landscapes for biodiversity conservation and sustainable/regenerative rangeland management; (iii) Systematic creation and sharing of knowledge, project coordination, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and institutional capacity development. 

The Senior GIS specialist will be responsible for all the geospatial data creation and management which would facilitate the implementation of participatory assessment and mapping of natural resources of the target districts. In addition, they will be preparing land-use/land-cover, watershed and topographic maps for RMAs and FMAs and target areas. 

The Senior GIS specialist will closely work with appointed specialists and support the project task team in preparing maps of land-use/land-cover, rangeland hotspots, FMAs and RMAs, mission maps etc which would facilitate in devising strategies and plans for implementation of sustainable natural landscape planning. They will provide technical guidance for the implementation of forest restoration and management, agroforestry and small-scale greenhouses.

FAO is looking for qualified national staff fill the position of senior GIS specialist. This position will support the work of the GEF-funded” Combating land degradation and biodiversity loss by promoting sustainable rangeland management and biodiversity conservation” project in Afghanistan. 

Job Posting: 31/Oct/2022

Closure Date: 21/Nov/2022

Organizational Unit: FAAFG

Type of Requisition: NPP (National Project Personnel)

Primary Location: Afghanistan-Kabul

Duration: 12 months (with extension subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability)

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This is a National Project Personnel position – SB4.

Reporting Lines

The Database Management Specialist will work under the overall supervision of the FAO Representative, the direct supervision of the Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer and the technical supervision of the Head of MEAL Team.

Technical Focus

The position will support the FAO Afghanistan MEAL team to ensure the availability of reliable, high quality data to monitor and report against FAO Afghanistan’s programme. In strong collaboration with the MEAL and Programming colleagues, the Database Management Specialist will play an important role in improving data quality and information management to strengthen analytical processes, and facilitate knowledge sharing and learning across the FAO programme.

Tasks and responsibilities

• In consultation with programming, MEAL and Senior Management colleagues, identify the information needs within FAO Afghanistan;
• Support the questionnaire development and associated deployment to the KOBO toolbox; 
• Support primary data collections (beneficiary registration, baselines, PDMs, midlines, endlines);
• Support with data cleaning, curation and preparation of large volume database;
• Prepare a summary extraction of geospatial data to link with georeferenced survey data and other data sources;
• Provide quantitative analytical support, including econometric analysis, spatial analysis and/or other methods;
• Contribute to the generation of reports and briefs and to the validation and interpretation of results;
• Support with data visualization (dashboards and maps) for different internal and external audiences;
• Support the MIS User Support Specialist with the pilot of the beneficiary management system;
• Support the MEAL team with various trainings included to enumerators on the KOBO toolbox etc.;
• Perform any other related duties as required.