With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Employee Contract Type:Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
Drone Mission Planning and Piloting in implementing areas of Mokhotlong and Thaba Tseka – 60%
- Carry out any risk assessment and risk mitigation measures before any drone mission/operation, to ensure safety of all stakeholders along the drone’s flight path
- Check drones before a flight to ensure safe and proper operation
- Analyze weather forecasts to ensure safe flights
- Document pre- and post-flight logs
- Video record all drone take offs and landings and monitor drones during flight
- With assistance from the team ensure line of sight visibility for a drone
- Plan drone flight routes
- Navigate drones along designated paths
- Gather information or produce aerial photographs, as needed
- Perform equipment testing, troubleshooting, and minor maintenance
Production of maps – 10%
- Downloading of photos and videos into a mapping software for photogrammetry
- Analyzing photography data with mapping software.
- Designing maps with geographic data and other data sources.
Facilitate use of the mapping system – 5%
- Support the M&E and Project Officer in development of maps and interpretation
- Ensure map guidelines are applied appropriately,
- Coordinate mapping processes and activities at the sites / district levels.
Communicate and utilize mapping data – 5%
- Collate mapping data from across project implementation areas to ensure donor requirements and targets are met
- Provide technical support to local programming teams so that they can utilise their mapping data with different stakeholders
- Support project staff to use mapping data to adapt or refine programme implementation
- Provide support to district and national report writing activities.
Facilitate learning and better practices in mapping – 5%
- Support project teams to design and facilitate reflection and lessons learned sessions in relation to mapping activities
- Support local project teams identify bottlenecks in mapping and implement strategies for addressing them
Plan mapping linking them with Community Disaster Preparedness Plans – 5%
- Determine roles and responsibilities to support the mapping process and communicate these
- Develop the basic information sheet to clarify and summarize key information from the maps
- Ensure WV policies on child protection and measurement protocols are clarified and followed faithfully throughout
- Develop sampling plan and coordinate with field staff to inform relevant community members, including children
- Coordinate with field staff and partners to ensure the appropriate timing schedule for mapping and feedback
- Critically analyze and adapt maps as necessary to respond to field reality
Develop or adapt measurement tools – 5%
- Develop and/or adapt standard tools in consultation with technical specialists and field staff/partners for drone mappings
Knowledge management – 5%
- Facilitate learning from drone piloting and mapping processes
- Facilitate proper management of knowledge through WV and donor systems.
- Support GIS Analyst in data collation and map analysis
Minimum education, training and experience requirements to qualify for the position:
The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:
- Degree in Computer Science, Geography, Surveying, Engineering or related field.
- Drone piloting certificate from an accredited provider
- 1-2 years of experience with drone piloting and GIS for an NGO or grant funded project.
- Direct Drone piloting and GIS experience with grant funded programming.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Proficiency with drone piloting and usage of mapping software
- Experience with mapping tools such as PIX4D, PIX4D Mapper, QGIS
- Experience with GPS measuring tools.
- Outstanding quantitative skill set.
- Analytical mindset.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Strong communication skills
- Robust problem-solving abilities
- Excellent electronic and mechanical skills
- Keen attention to detail
Remuneration: Competitive with market standards
Application Requirements:
Please upload your CV, Cover Letter and copies of Educational Certificates, Transcripts and ID. You are requested to provide full details of 3 referees (2 professionals and 1 spiritual) as well as contact details of 1 HR Practitioner from your current or latest job. The required details are full referees’ names, designation, email address and contact numbers.
Closing Date: 10th July 2023
Applicant Types Accepted:Local Applicants Only