Back Consultant as Full Stack GIS Developer

Program Overview

WRI Indonesia is an independent research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity, and human well-being. At WRI Indonesia, we aim to bring innovations in research and business approaches to create the enabling conditions for Indonesia to achieve robust economic growth while respecting environmental and social values. We seek to contribute to the accomplishment of ambitious sustainable development goals through working with leaders in public and private sectors, as well as collaborating with civil society organizations, in turning big ideas into action.

Within our Agriculture, Forest, and Land Use (AFOLU) Program, we envision critical ecosystems such as forests and peatland across Indonesia to be governed fairly and sustainably. We believe sustainable land use management is key for Indonesia to meet its climate goal, in line with keeping the global climate target below the 1.5-degree Celcius warming threshold, while providing sustainable livelihoods to forest-dependent communities and conserve biodiversity in the landscape. We intend to achieve this through safeguarding the remaining forest and peatland from deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation; maintaining forests and peatland quality through sound stewardship; and restoring degraded ecosystem to improve its productivity, conservation value, and ecosystem services.

To this end, one solution that WRI Indonesia wants to offer is promoting Landscape Monitoring initiative. The overall objective of this initiative is to bring together willing company partners, as well as local government and CSOs to work together to develop and pilot deforestation monitoring system, consist of monitoring, verifying, and addressing deforestation alerts at the landscape/jurisdictional scale. This collective approach is expected to improve efficiency and maximize potential for impact and scalability, as compared to individual monitoring initiatives. WRI Indonesia is currently developing and using radar-based forest monitoring system known as Radar Alerts for Detecting Deforestation (RADD) with partners to make it much easier for stakeholders to see deforestation happening in near-real-time and with greater accuracy. With this information, users can more quickly mobilize follow-up actions on the ground and work to reduce deforestation rate and improve the sustainability of commodity supply chains.

The consultant will be based in Jakarta to support the Peat and Forest Monitoring team in developing the GIS part of the platform. He/she will work together with the forest and landscape monitoring team and providing technical support to create automation process in producing prioritized alerts based on raw changes from radar detection.

The consultant will report to WRI Indonesia Forest & Landscape Monitoring Project Lead, and coordinate with WRI Indonesia forest and landscape monitoring team. The work will span for 3 months with probability of an extension depending on the working result and focusing on selected deliverables as agreed by WRI Indonesia.

Job Responsibilities

Technical Works (80%)

• Work directly with Product Owners to translate business needs to technical requirements and specifications;
• Work closely with stakeholders and provide the deliverables with high quality of standards;
• Develop, test, and deploy automated prioritization script;
• Participates in the design, development and implementation of complex applications;
• As needed, coordinated with existing team of landscape monitoring researchers;

  Project Management and Reporting Works (20%)

  • Technical specification report according to WRI Indonesia’s report template;
  • Provide general support to WRI Indonesia Forest and Peat Monitoring team working on the platform as needed.

    Qualifications

    Required Qualifications:

    • Legally able to work in Indonesia;
    • Bachelor’s degree in a related field, preferably with coursework in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Geoinformatics or equivalent experience;
    • Deep working knowledge of Lean-Agile methodology;
    • 3+ years overall work experience in software development life cycle (SDLC);
    • Full Stack Developer (JavaScript, PostgreSQL);
    • Demonstrable proficiency in using JS Charts libraries such as Highcharts or D3;
    • Familiar with web mapping libraries such as Leaflet, OpenLayers, or ArcGIS API;
    • Experience building web applications end-to-end;
    • Experience with MVC patterns and frameworks such as CodeIgniter, Laravel or Django;
    • Experience with Code Repositories systems and source control systems Experience using Source Code and Version Control systems like SVN, Git, etc;
    • Excellence in verbal and written communication, and in working collaboratively with a variety of colleagues and clients in a remote development environment;
    • Strong analytical and organizational skills;
    • Strong problem-solving skills;
    • Eagerness to learn, eagerness to help, eagerness to share;
    • Fluent in Bahasa Indonesia and English.

      Preferred Qualifications:

      • General understanding of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Services;
      • Experience with Agile development methodologies;
      • Experience working with raster and vector data type also familiar with GEE and mapbuilder ecosystem;
      • Experience building or working with RESTful web services via JSON or XML;
      • Have a portfolio(s) in building web platform using OpenLayers/Leaflet/ArcGIS API.

        Deliverables

        1. Automated process of prioritization alerts from raw changes alerts in priority districts (Siak, Pelalawan, Aceh Tamiang, and Aceh Timur)
        2. Prioritization alerts in priority districts are available and downloadable in shared platform (mapbuilder)
        3. Provide technical documentation according to WRI’s template

           WRI Indonesia Activity Description

           2022

           Aug

           Sep

           Oct

           1

           Prioritized alert automation script and tested bug free for priority districts

           2

           Prioritization alerts product are available and updated timely based in shared platform (map builder)

           3

           - Final mockup of map builder with priority alerts products downloadable

           - Technical documentation

           📚 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗮 𝗝𝗼𝗯 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯! 🌍🤝 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝗡𝗛𝗖𝗥, 𝗪𝗙𝗣, 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗙, 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦𝗦, 𝗨𝗡𝗙𝗣𝗔, 𝗜𝗢𝗠 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀! 🌐

           ⚠️ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐰: 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐖!

           Duration

           1 August – 31 October 2022 with possibility of extension subject to individual performance evaluations, budget availability, and project needs.

           Terms of Payment

           Consultant will receive a compensation based on deliverables submitted throughout the project period with terms of payment detail as follow:

           WRI Indonesia Activity Description

           2022

           Aug

           Sep

           Oct

           1

           Prioritized alert automation script and tested bug free for priority districts

           30%

           2

           Prioritization alerts product are available and updated timely based in shared platform (mapbuilder)

           20%

           3

           - Final mockup of mapbuilder with priority alerts products downloadable

           - Technical documentation

           50%