GIS Officer at Reime West Africa Limited

Responsibilities

• Work on projects, scoping out the nature and purpose of the information required by clients.
• Collect, store, analyse and present geographical and spatial information.
• Use a range of GPS tools in the field to capture the location of 'assets' such as bridges, street lights, road barriers and flood defences
• Undertake desk-based data capture (digitising) to convert paper maps to GIS datasets to, for example, record the location of telecoms cables or water pipelines from original maps.
• Create and maintain the structures necessary for GIS data storage.
• Develop tools for loading/transferring GIS data between different systems.
• Manipulate, analyse and present geographical information by creating programs to convert GIS information from one format to another.
• Develop internet apps to present GIS data and tools on corporate websites.
• Use tools to join together different GIS datasets and create new information or investigate patterns, e.g. estimating the number of people potentially affected by flooding, using population growth figures and planning information to estimate increasing/decreasing demand for school capacity or calculating the number of potential customers for a new supermarket and predicting buying patterns based on socio-economic factors.

Academic Qualifications / Requirements

• Minimum of HND / University Degree in Geography, Mathematics, Computer Science, or closely related field.
• 6 - 10 years of experience in leading a GIS team in the Telecommunication industry is essential.
• Ability to pay particular attention to details to work with databases and also analyze information.
• High analytical thinking to effectively analyze information and databases.
• Profound GIS knowledge.