Title: GIS and Remote Sensing Coordinator
Company Name: mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.
Vacancy: 01
Job Location: Dhaka (Banani)
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ At least a Bachelor's degree in Geography, Environmental science, Computer science, URP or any other fields related to GIS and Geo-information Science. Preference shall be given to the candidates having a Master's Degree as well.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ mPower Social Enterprises Ltd. mostly deals with clients from Government and Non-Government Organizations. During the project life-cycle, regular monitoring of deliverables from different stakeholders within deadlines is absolutely necessary. We are looking for someone who will take complete ownership of his/her projects from initiation to closure.
∎ Lead in design, development and collection of relevant geospatial information with data collection tools.
∎ Analyze data acquired from UAV, satellites, or ground-based platforms, using statistical analysis software (such as R), image analysis software (ERDAS Imagine, TerrSet, ENVI etc.), or Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software (QGIS, ArcGIS) to solve problems in agriculture, natural resource management, climate change etc.
∎ Develop or build technical or scientific databases for remote sensing or related geospatial project information.
∎ Prepare scientific or technical reports or presentations of geospatial project information.
∎ Compose, manage, and run Python scripts to streamline project organization.
Additional Requirements:
∎ 2 or more years of experience in using specialized mapping software such as ArcGIS, ERDAS Imagine or QGIS and/or Statistical software R.
∎ Experience in using Web GIS tools.
∎ Basic understanding of scripting with Python.
∎ Ability to communicate with technical as well as non-technical people.
∎ Keen interest in solving social and economic problems using GIS.
Salary: Negotiable
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Competitive salary package.
∎ In-house catering service for lunch & snacks.
∎ Income tax paid by the company.
∎ Two festival bonuses.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 23 Jul 2021
Company Information:
∎ 23 Jun 2021
∎ mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.
∎ Business : About mPower: mPower Social Enterprises was founded by graduate students of Harvard University and MIT in 2008. Currently based in Dhaka (Bangladesh), mPower has partnered with more than 30 of the world`s leading development organizations across 8 countries to amplify the impact of development programs through innovative use of ICTs. Our partners/ funders include BRAC, Save the Children, CARE International, Oxfam, Winrock International, The Asia Foundation, Grameen, World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, DFID, USAID, Population Council, Harvard and Johns Hopkins University. mPower has won a number of competitive innovation awards both at international and national levels, including USAID Global Development Award, Gates Innovation Challenge, Grand Challenges Canada etc.
Vision: A world where everyone has access to quality services
Mission: We partner with development organizations to amplify the impact and outreach of their interventions by leveraging the power of information and communication technologies
mPower`s Services:
We help implementers harness the power of innovative design, information technologies, and market forces to ensure delivery of quality services to the underserved
We design and build solutions that allow implementing organizations,
to provide more timely and higher quality services using frontline workforces
to collect field data for better decision-making, organizational learning and monitoring
to develop capacity of community members so as to positively influence choices and behavior
to empower community members to report abnormalities and hold service providers accountable
to take market-driven approaches to service delivery rather than subsidy-driven in order to ensure sustainability
Category: IT/Telecommunication
Source: bdjobs.com