Data Research and GIS Officer
Position Summary
Requirements - Skills, Qualifications, Experience
Salary: Negotiable based on knowledge, skill and experience
Job Summary:
Data Researcher and Geographic Information System Officer is in charge of finding public domain data for internal use and publishing. Responsible for: gathering and organizing different datasets published by public data providers, routinely digitizing data and preparing data for further analysis and visualizations. Assist teams with ensuring data across ODC's topic areas are complete, accurate, and up to date.
A copy of the terms of reference for the above position can be obtained from the ODC website
- University degree required; preferably in land management and land administration, engineer, agriculture, forestry, environmental science, ecological or other relevant areas with emphasis on quantitative studies.
- Experience conducting quantitative research on development, economic and/or environmental issues and working with research teams required.
- Strong web research skills desired.
- Experience with data collection and documentation.
- Proficiency in spreadsheet software (i.e. Microsoft Excel).
- Basic experience with data cleaning and processing tools such as web scraper, R, Google Spreadsheet, Open office, Tabula, OCR.
- Strong experience in using geographical information system (GIS) software such as QGIS, Arc GIS, and web-based mapping applications, preferably QGIS.
- Comfortable working with databases and learning new software and tools required.
- Proficiency in using Khmer Unicode required.
- Ability to prepare PowerPoint slides summarizing data.
- Strong oral and written communication skills required.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and assignments simultaneously required.
- Strong commitment to objective and neutral “open data” standards.
- Strong desire to promote Cambodia’s sustained development.
- Experience meeting deadlines required.
- Be able to work under pressure.
- Willingness to respect and work within ODC principles and ODC code of conduct.
