Job Description
GIS GRADUATE TRAINEE

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to undertake an intensive two-year structured graduate-traineeship in GIS.

Duties and Responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Perform professional level work in the GIS and remote sensing field.
• Carry out satellite-based crop monitoring for all the organization’s estates and irrigation schemes to measure hectarage and predict/estimate yield.
• Assist in preparation of province-based reports on the size of the area planted and crop status in irrigation schemes and estates.
• Assist with research and analysis, perform queries, reports and analyse spatial data.
• Scan, digitize, Georeference all the paper maps at the organization and carryout ground truthing where necessary.
• Automate and write scripts for routine GIS processes.
• Develop and update various maps for exhibits, reports and meetings at different scales and layouts using GIS/ desktop software (ArcGIS/QGIS).
• Work with staff on the development and maintenance of Geospatial data repository for the organization.
• May be required to prepare and deliver presentations, attend various meetings.
• May assist with planning and coordinating GIS related projects as well as preparing tasks and reports.
• Assist in preparing and conducting training programmes on GI technology for estate managers and business scheme managers.
• Support the organisation’s policies, goals and objectives and work with management and other staff to ethically achieve such goals and objectives; ensure compliance with safety procedures.
• Perform any other duties as directed by the Soil Prospection and GIS Manager


Qualifications and Experience
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
• A degree in GIS, Surveying or equivalent.
• Demonstration of IT skills
• QGIS, ArcGIS, R and Python software and the ability to edit and interpret GIS data.
• Research and analysis methods and techniques.
• Soil, water and crop management
• File and record management.