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Career Opportunities: Geospatial Information (GIS) Specialist | Kyiv | 3 months (renewable)
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🚩 Vacancy Announcement n°: 832080
📢 Job Title: Geospatial Information Specialist
📌Type of Contract: International Consultancy CST I
➡️ Unit / Division: Operational Information Management Unit / WFP Ukraine
📍 Duty Station: Kyiv
➡️ Duration: 3 months (renewable)
⏰ Closing date: 01 April 2024, midnight (Central European Time)
About WFP
The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.
At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do, and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.
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What will you do in this position?
With the unpredictable conflict unfolding in Ukraine, WFP is providing in-kind food and cash assistance to those who have been negatively affected. While the country situation remains volatile, the information and details of the war is fast evolving. Ukraine operation is also adopting changes quickly to meet the needs on the ground as fast as possible. As a result, accurate and fast reporting continues to be important. Increased volume of information and data need to be collated, organized, processed, and then communicated frequently. The objective of a country-level operational information management team is to ensure timely and coherent information flow both internally and externally.
The geospatial information specialist will report to the country office level Operational Information Management team, collecting, maintaining, analysing, visualizing and connecting operational data with relevant spatial data. The specialist will provide direct geospatial analysis and mapping support to WFP Ukraine’s operations and activities comprising all key units, working closely with GIS focal points in Headquarters (HQ) and Regional Bureau of Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe (RBC).
Why work with us?
The war in Ukraine has had drastic consequences, both for people inside the country and for those around the world dependent on its huge grain supplies. It is inflicting untold suffering on civilians, displace families, and disrupt supply chains and food production. It has caused one of the fastest forced population movements since the Second World War. Close to 6 million Ukrainians are still living as refugees across Europe, and almost 5.1 million are internally displaced. Many have lost their homes and livelihoods. As food production and supply lines are disrupted by fighting, many families in the east and south do not have reliable access to nutritious food.
WFP uses a flexible mix of food and cash assistance to support communities affected by the war wherever they are. This includes working with local partners to distribute food rations in areas near the frontline and providing cash transfers wherever people have access to banks and markets to buy food. Since March 2022, WFP has distributed food and cash assistance equivalent to 2.4 billion meals to families displaced and affected by the war, partnering directly with local responders.
➡️ WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
➡️ WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse and multicultural working environment.
➡️ WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of trainings, accreditation, coaching, mentorship and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
➡️ A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
➡️ WFP offers a competitive benefits package including salary, leave plus a medical insurance.
How can you make a difference?
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