Duties
The USAID/Haiti Mission manages a complex development program that is based on four main pillars and entails a more than $2 billion planned level of effort for the 2011 to 2018 strategy. The incumbent will serve as USAID/Haiti’s key expert in geographic activity data collection, management, and analysis. He/she will be responsible for the coordination of regular, geo-spatially oriented program information and developing USAID/Haiti’s current geographical information system (GIS) capacities. GIS is an important component of the Haiti Mission Monitoring and Evaluation Team. The USAID/Haiti Mission has adopted an innovative and comprehensive approach to measuring project performance against the goals of the USG Strategy on Haiti. The Program Mapping and Reporting Specialist will work closely with the entire USAID/Haiti Mission, comprised of Front Office leadership, Program Office, Office of Acquisitions and Assistance, Office of Financial Management and the cross-sectoral technical teams such as Health, Education, Democracy and Governance, Economic Growth, Agricultural Development, and Infrastructure. In addition, the incumbent will liaise with project managers and their implementing partners to ensure the timely and accurate collection, assimilation and use of GIS data. He/she will be responsible for ensuring that USAID/Haiti is able to provide up-to-date ‘activity status’ information, analysis and over time associate data collection work and data field development with USAID/Haiti’s Strategy, planning and reporting, and public outreach documents.
Under the supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation Team Leader, the incumbent will oversee the development and maintenance of a gradually more sophisticated GIS service that contains key reporting information for all targeted results under USAID’s strategy for Haiti and the associated projects for each development Pillar, ensuring there are coherent relationships. He/she will serve as the Mission's professional technocrat responsible for improving/upgrading this system, collaborating with USAID/Washington actors in coordinating and developing emerging system requirements. Generate maps and program reporting requirements, meeting requests from Mission management, GOH counterparts, and other stakeholders. These include developing procedures and practices for developing key data fields and other information updates from USAID partners.
Perform geospatial analysis and create maps and other products needed in support of Mission programs. Prepare oral and written briefings for Mission staff, the Mission Director, and/or others, on request. Offer ideas on Mission GIS needs, and ensure that the Mission database is compatible with other donor and host country systems. Import/export GIS data between Mission systems and compatible donor or government systems, safeguarding information and observing security protocols. Resolve problems and delays with GIS data entry, updates and reports in collaboration with the M&E Team Leader, CORs/AORs, and implementing partners. Conduct and/or arrange with the USAID/Washington Geo Center, GIS workshops, coaching, and training sessions for USAID and Implementing Partner staff, in order to facilitate discussion and provide instruction on issues of data entry and update, data quality, utilization of GIS as a management and planning tool, and to provide information on new GIS features and requirements.
Support the Data Management Coordinator and CORs/AORs, assuring that all GIS information in Dev Results is current prior to any program/project closeouts by conducting regular data checks and following up with the USAID/Haiti Office of Acquisition and Assistance. Support implementing partners, A/CORs, and M&E Specialists to comply with USAID/Haiti’s procedures for entering and validating new activity indicators in Dev Results. Help track targets and results and ensure that all needed activity-level information is entered into Dev Results Haiti. Train and mentor USAID staff and implementing partners to correctly manage their data entry/updates, data quality, and data utilization responsibilities in Dev Results Haiti. Participate in orientation meetings with new partners and monitoring and evaluation working groups, which could include logistics support, preparation of materials and leading or participating in technical discussions. Serve as COR/AOR for the DevResults contract and any GIS-related activities required for conducting data quality assessments or for other data needs. Establish and maintain working-level relations with senior officers in Haiti’s national geo-spatial center (CNIGS), with the UN, other donors, GOH Ministries and other providers of reliable information, including developing/proposing ways of updating demographic information and sector indicators.
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Qualifications and Evaluations
Requirements:
Post Entry Training: Familiarization training in USAID-specific procedures, regulations, and methods. The majority of post-entry training will take place through on-the-job training opportunities particularly in the areas of USAID policies and procedures outlined in the ADS 200 for program development, implementation, and monitoring. Courses, seminars, conferences, and other activities in fields related to the function, subject to availability of funds.
Education Requirements:
Education: A Bachelors (BA) level degree in a Management Information Systems, computer sciences, or monitoring and evaluation is required.
Evaluations:
Applications that do not meet the required minimum qualifications will not be scored. Candidates meeting the required qualifications for the position will be evaluated based on information presented in the application. USAID reserves the right to conduct interviews with the top ranked short-listed candidates. If the interview is conducted, the interview will be one of the determining factors in the final selection.
USAID IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER: All qualified candidates will be considered regardless of age, race, color, sex, creed, national origin, lawful political affiliation, non-disqualifying handicap, marital status, sexual orientation, affiliation with an employee organization, or other non-merit factor. Management may consider the following when determining successful candidacy: nepotism, conflicts of interest, budget, and residency status.
Qualifications:
Experience: A minimum of three years of professional-level experience in information systems, databases and geographic spatial analysis using Esri ArcGIS technology including experience in program evaluation/analysis and interpretation of data bases is required.
Job Knowledge: Must be confidently trained and experienced in the fields of program management, systems analysis, databases and GIS platforms, software and systems. A strong knowledge of Haiti's databases, mapping capacities, socio-economic and demographic statistics and development parameters would become required.
Skills: : Must have excellent analytical capabilities; program analysis and presentation skills including the ability to prepare verbal, textual, tabular, and graphic presentations. Must be self-directed and able to create and participate in GIS communities of practice, within USAID and in Haiti more broadly. Must be able to cultivate relations with senior officials and staff from USAID program partners as well as with influential government officials to develop procedures and practices for collecting GIS-related information and for explaining USAID’s programs and regulations
Language: Fluency (level IV) in English, French and Haitian Creole is required.
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How to Apply:
Eligible applicants are required to complete this on-line application process and submit any applicable required documents by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)] on the closing date of this announcement.
If applying on-line poses an extreme hardship, you must contact the human resources office no later than 2,3 business days prior to the closing date of this vacancy announcement. An alternative application method will be provided upon approval of the hardship notification. After this time, requests to apply via alternative methods will not be granted.
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