[SDI-Africa] job: GIS Technician, Knysna, South Africa (deadline 13 February)

[Kate Lance]

-- not sure if this is only open to South African citizens; if you're interested, and you're not South Africa, you probably should inquire about eligibility.

http://www.capeaction.org.za/
GIS Technician, Garden Route Initiatives, Knysna, South Africa 

The South African Garden Route Initiative (GRI) is a partnership programme that seeks to conserve and restore the unique biodiversity and sense of place of the Garden Route, while supporting the sustainable management of the area and the delivery of benefits to local communities. The GRI is a component project of the Cape Action for People and the Environment Programme (C.A.P.E.) supported by the Global Environment Facility through the World Bank. 

As part of the GRI, a fine-scale biodiversity planning project is being undertaken, the products of which will be used to inform land use planning and decision making, as well as protected area management and off reserve conservation stewardship activities. The production of new base layers forms part of the biodiversity planning project, including vegetation, invasive alien plants and land cover maps. 

SANParks requires the services of a GIS Technician to provide GIS support to the fine scale biodiversity planning project. This will involve digitizing from hard copy maps or scanned images annotated by specialist mappers, populating and generating attribute data, cleaning and supplying final digital data products, generating metadata, and producing final map layouts. All data and metadata must be supplied in a format compatible with the ESRI suite of GIS software. 

Suitably qualified individual consultants or firms with a proven track record in providing professional GIS services in the ESRI GIS environment, with experience in the environmental management, natural resource management, or conservation field, and with the necessary GIS skills and systems (hardware and software), are invited to express their interest in providing this service, by submitting CV’s or company profiles, outlining their relevant qualifications, skills and experience as well as information regarding the range of GIS services they are able to provide to: The Coordinator: Garden Route Initiative Address: PO Box 3542, Knysna, 6570 Email: gri at sanparks.org The deadline for receipt of submissions is: Tuesday, 13 February 2007. For any queries or further information contact Andrew Brown, Tel: (044) 382-0479, Email: andrewb at sanparks.org.


 
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