Overview
Provide technical support for land cover and GIS activities under the project "Enhancing Regional Technical Capacities for Sustainable Land Monitoring and Development" in Senegal.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in regional coordination of land cover/land use activities.
- Provide technical support in GIS and Remote Sensing.
- Organize and implement regional project activities, including meetings and workshops.
- Ensure documentation and archiving of technical information.
- Support needs and gap assessments on land cover and land use.
- Support raising awareness and knowledge sharing on land monitoring.
- Provide technical assistance for national land cover legends development.
- Support the design and development of training programs and materials.
- Contribute to the development of technical guidance documents on land monitoring.
- Support the design of field data collection sample strategy.
- Provide daily support in field data collection campaign.
- Provide support in satellite imagery classification.
- Provide daily support to the project technical working group.
- Develop land cover dataset for Senegal.
- Populate FAO Land Cover Legend Registry (LCLR).
- Assist in other project tasks.
Required Experience
At least 5 years of relevant experience in spatial data handling and analysis, satellite data processing and management, GIS and remote sensing applications.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Agricultural, GIS, Geography, Environmental Sciences or a closely related technical field.
