Geospatial Hazard and Risk Intern
1 month ago
**LOCATION**:
Home-based, supporting SDG Integration team based in NewYork
**TYPE OF CONTRACT**:
Internship
**STARTING DATE**:
01-Nov-2024
**APPLICATION DEADLINE**:
25-Oct-24 (Midnight New York, USA)
**POST LEVEL**:
Intern
**DURATION OF INITIAL CONTRACT**:
6 Months
**TIME LEFT**:
14d 13h 53m
**LANGUAGES REQUIRED**:
English
**EXPECTED DURATION OF ASSIGNMENT**:
6 Months
**Background**:
The UN Reform Resolution tasks UNDP to provide countries with an “integrator function” to accelerate progress towards the SDGs by tackling multiple interlinked and interdependent development challenges. The UNDP Global Policy Network (GPN) draws on expertise globally to provide more effective responses to the complex development challenges countries face in achieving the SDGs and responding to crisis in an integrated and coherent manner. Anchored in the Crisis Bureau (CB) and the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS), the GPN has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan, which is aligned with the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
An SDG Integration Team located with UNDP’s Global Policy Network (GPN) offers a menu of services emphasizing direct short
In this regard, advances in digital technology are creating data at unprecedented levels of detail and speed, turning the stories of people’s lives into numbers every minute of every day, across the globe. An important focus of the integration work is to complement traditional data (e.g. national statistics, NHDR like analysis) with new and alternative sources including digital ‘breadcrumbs,’ satellite data, social media to identify emerging trends and gain new perspectives on issues in development.
**Duties and Responsibilities**:
The GIS Intern will be responsible for the following:
- Curate and ingest various geospatial data into UNDP spatial database/s (raster and vector) in collaboration with UNDP’s GIS data engineer
- Design cartographic materials (maps/layouts/styles) using standard tools (QGIS, Mapbox styles)
- Curate and document geospatial hazards and risk models for several geospatial hazards for the purpose of operational deployment
- Test and run geospatial models in containerized medium targeting cloud based operational deployment
- Generate data layers from remote sensing data sources for specific geospatial hazards (floods, earthquakes, landslides) using state of the art software libraries and data sources (sentinel, VIIRS, Landsat, etc)
- Support with the development of presentations and other documents related to geospatial data
- Conduct research/investigations regarding various GIS software/tools/technologies used in the development of GeoHub stack
**Competencies**:
- Self-starter; organized and reliable;
- Able to multitask and balance multiple responsibilities;
- Demonstrated ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and sensitivity to differing opinions and views.
**Required Skills and Experience**:
- (a) Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher);
- (b) Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor’s level or equivalent);
- (c) Have graduated with a university degree (as defined in (a) and (b) above) and, if selected, must start the internship within one-year of graduation.
- (d) be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program and undertake the internship as part of this program.
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