MEAL and GIS Officer

The MEAL and GIS Officer supports the Driving Down Dengue in Laos project by managing GIS and core data systems, ensuring data quality and accessibility for programme decision-making. The role involves technical support for field data collection, data management, and contributing to monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning activities.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with field- and laboratory-based project staff to ensure that data captured from field activities are complete, accurate, timely, and of high quality
• Maintain project mobile devices and provide technical support to partners and field staff, including support related to mosquito-release locations and field deployment
• Prepare, update, and upload maps to mobile devices for use by field teams
• Support the collection of data through mobile devices and ensure timely synchronization with the Aggregate data platform
• Support the management of SCI SharePoint and Google Drive document libraries, ensuring that project documents are appropriately organised, accessible, and securely maintained
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with village leaders, village volunteers, district health officers, and other relevant stakeholders
• Conduct data validation, data cleaning, and quality-assurance processes to maintain high-quality project data
• Support the technical team to access and use the central core data system
• Support the line manager with MEAL-related activities at the country office, as required
• Manage data entry, validation, and analysis of participant tracking lists, including data disaggregation by relevant categories such as sex, age, location, and disability status, where applicable
• Support SCI’s Feedback and Reporting Mechanism and the World Mosquito Program’s Incident Management System, including accurate documentation, referral, follow-up, and reporting in line with established procedures
• Support the line manager in monitoring progress against project targets and ensure activities are delivered on time and to the required quality standards
• Contribute to the preparation of timely and accurate donor reports and project reports
• Prepare advance requests, liquidations, and returns in accordance with SCI financial procedures and planned project activities
• Undertake regular travel to project sites to provide GIS, data, MEAL, and operational support
• Participate in other SCI and project activities as required
• Carry out any other duties reasonably assigned by the supervisor

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent professional qualifications in relevant fields (GIS, Computer Science, or another relevant field, from a university)
• Qualification in research methods or monitoring and evaluation is desirable
• At least 2-3 years’ experience in data and GIS management at a recognized institution
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation of projects
• Previous experience implementing a dengue project or other health project
• Demonstrated experience managing complex information within a medium to large organization, ideally with an international focus
• Experience providing operational support to field teams is desirable
• Experience sourcing and working with local-scale government geospatial data or health/epidemiological information is an advantage
• Experience with desktop GIS applications (eg ESRI suite, QGIS), database management platform (eg SQL server, PostgreSQL) and at least one of the following: data visualization software (eg R, Prism); management of Google G-Suite
• Demonstrated specialist skills in at least one of the following: geospatial analysis; data analysis and visualization; management of data through administration consoles
• Demonstrated experience maintaining relational databases
• High-level English comprehension, both spoken and written

Skills

• GIS Management
• Data Management
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Geospatial Analysis
• Data Visualization
• Database Management
• ESRI suite
• QGIS
• SQL Server
• PostgreSQL
• PRISM
• Google G-Suite Administration
• Health Program Implementation
• Epidemiological Analysis
• Operational Support to Field Teams
• Research Methods
• Data Quality Assurance
• Relational Database Maintenance

Languages

English