Data and GIS specialist

The project

A water and sanitation project was completed in 2016 in the municipality of Santa Catarina, on the island of Santiago. It extended the drinking water network, created a collective sewer network and planned a geographic information system, meters and remote management. The 2018 evaluation notes that technical knowledge of the network remains incomplete and that remote management is little used. The island’s water operator is looking for a specialist to make the network data reliable and useful to the operations teams.

Your role

• Reconcile field surveys with network data and check for inconsistencies.
• Build and maintain the geographic database: pipes, connections, meters and structures.
• Produce maps useful to the operations teams, for example to spot areas of water loss.
• Organize field data collection with the teams: GPS surveys and meter readings.
• Link the customer database and the meters to the mapped network.
• Train the teams to read the maps and update the data.

Your profile

You have worked on geographic data or network inventories, preferably in water or sanitation. You can explain how you check data quality. You are comfortable moving between the field and the office, and explaining a map to non-specialist teams.

Requirements

Languages

Professional Portuguese and English.

Education

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in geomatics, geography, civil engineering or hydraulics, or equivalent experience. Equivalent Cape Verdean degrees accepted.

Software

Preferred: QGIS, ArcGIS, Excel, PostgreSQL with PostGIS.