GIS JOB VACANCIES 2014
GIS Support
Indonesia City Planning Labs Program
Position: Consultant, GIS Specialist
Summary: Provide technical, analytical support to local governments to set up City Planning Labs is one of the participating pilot cities, Denpasar, Surabaya, Balikpapan, Palembang.
Interested candidates, please contact Josie McVitty (jmcvitty@worldbank.org) with CV or resume attached.
Context:
Indonesia is amongst the most rapidly urbanizing countries in East Asia. With the average annual urbanization rate estimated at 4.1% between 1990 and 2010, Indonesia is urbanizing faster than its Asian counterparts, such as China (3.8%), India (3.1%), and Thailand (2.8%), in the same period. This has made Indonesia one of the most urbanized countries in Asia, with an urban population share of 54% in 2010. Projections of urbanization suggest that this figure will increase to 68% by 2025. These statistics tell a powerful story of structural transition in Indonesian society, from predominantly rural and agricultural society into more urban, manufacture, and service-based economy.
How Indonesia manages this urban transition – the extent to which Indonesian cities develop into productive agglomerations with equitable access to quality services and infrastructure – will be a key determinant in the country’s ability to sustain growth and reduce poverty. However, Indonesia has yet to achieve the economic returns to urbanization that other countries have achieved. For every additional 1% that the country urbanizes, it achieves just 2% of additional GDP growth, whereas other countries in the region achieve 6-10% GDP growth per 1% of urbanization.
The Government of Indonesia (GoI) is developing with World Bank support the National Urban Development Program (NUDP) – a national program to channel investment and technical assistance to medium and large cities. As part of this program, the Bank and GoI are developing a Technical Support Facility (NUDP-TSF) which aims to provide Indonesian cities with access to technical assistance in urban and spatial planning, project preparation, municipal finance, and related areas.
The City Planning Labs (CPL) initiative is a core activity under this facility which aims to build advanced institutional capacity in urban spatial growth and sector analytics and planning systems. The CPL initiative is organized around a core module on Urban Spatial Growth Analytics and Planning Systems and four sector modules. CPLs will initially be developed in four cities: Surabaya, Palembang, Denpasar, and Balikpapan.
Background:
The City Planning Lab (CPL) is envisioned as a driver of improved integrated and evidence-based spatial, development, and investment planning for Indonesian cities. Local governments in Indonesia understand the importance of improved data and technical
analysis for strategic, evidence-based, integrated planning and decision-making. In the attempt to address this need, technical assistance to cities usually takes the form of isolated studies which, while they may be helpful in the short term, often do not systematically increase cities’ technical capacity, or improve urban management on an ongoing basis.
Instead, in order to make technical assistance under NUDPmore sustainable, it will be anchored in a dedicated facility in each partner city, called the City Planning Lab.
The CPLs aim to establish technical capacity at the municipal level to provide reliable analytic support to a city’s planning, policy and infrastructure decisions, and to enable access to leading technical assistance in urban management, analytics, and planning systems.
The focus of the facilities will be to build up technical and institutional capacity in city planning and regulatory agencies to produce reliable and up-to-date data about the cities, well-informed plans, effective public investments, and to support the enforcement of development regulations. The facilities will operate by offering a menu of technical engagements for immediate as well as long-term projects on a demand-driven basis. CPLs will seek strong support and cooperation from the City Government with the aim of becoming technically and materially self-sustainable within two to three years.
By acting as a single ‘nerve center’ or focal point for analytical work across a range of sectors, touching on spatial growth, land use, land markets, slums, economic competitiveness, and climate and risk resilience, the CPL will help to habituate city leaders to think about urban management in an integrated, holistic way, allowing them to meet a range of needs through select but strategic interventions.
The City Planning Labs core module will be initially implemented in four cities; Surabaya, Palembang, Denpasar, and Balikpapan, with two additional modules in each city, based on local demand and willingness to dedicate resources.
Objectives and Scope of Work:
Objective:
The objective of the consultancy assignment is to support the implementation of the CPLs in one of the four participating cities during an initial 8-month period. The consultant will oversee and support the local governments in the physical set-up, hiring, geospatial data creation and management, implementation of a geospatial data platform, and the development of the core analytics tasks over the duration of the contract.
Description
This position will help demonstrate the potential impact of the CPL through assistance with implementation within the designated city’s context, and also to ensure the knowledge and skills necessary to sustain the City Planning Lab are ingrained in CPL staff through demonstration and training.
The GIS Specialist will be responsible for applying GIS tools and data analysis to a variety of urban planning related questions. This position requires technical expertise in GIS analysis, data development, management, maintenance, cartography, and delivery. The successful candidate will have strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to tell compelling stories with data, including stimulating and intuitive data visualization, and the ability to do effective presentations and trainings for technical and non-technical audiences.
The GIS Specialist will work with CPL staff to produce high-quality maps, data, information, summaries, or reports for proposals, presentations, and communication needs; ensure all data has metadata that follows agreed-upon standards and best practices; and oversee creation and acquisition of new data including field data acquisitions and data licensing and purchasing.
Sustainability is a key part of building institutional capacity, and the City Planning Lab concept. Training and knowledge transfer will be done through a multi-tiered approach including:
- Working with CPL staff in-person to help familiarize them with GIS concepts and the software interfaces while strategically guiding them into using and understanding the tools most important to the city’s needs.
- Guide CPL staff to using appropriate online tutorials, promote learning how to strategically learn new concepts and find answers through the internet (websites, list serves, community forums, etc.), and promote the personal practice of developing skill sets.
- Participate in offering some more formalized training done in collaboration with the World Bank team and local universities.
- The successful candidate will be adaptable to professionally addressing needs as they arise.
- The consultant will be responsible for supporting the World Bank team in the initial implementation phase of the CPL program, to provide technical supervision and advisory support, with the required IT systems, geospatial data management, and urban analytic tasks.
- Interface with the local government, and work closely with the CPL personnel in the designated city;
- Support the CPL staff on collecting, creating and managing relevant geospatial data; supporting the progress in accordance with the implementation schedule and reaching the phased targets for the physical setup, IT-systems and core analytic tasks in each CPL;
- Ensure the knowledge and skills necessary to sustain the City Planning Lab are ingrained in CPL staff through demonstration and training;
- Monitor advancement and review the work and deliverables of the CPL in the designated city based on the proposed schedule.
Required skillset:
Education/Experience:
- College degree in Geography, Computer Science/Information Systems, Urban Planning, Policy, Environmental Science, or a related area.
- Current, and honed technical skill-set for spatial and geographic analysis: QGIS and ArcGIS (+ Network Analyst, Spatial Analyst, Geocoding, ArcPy, ModelBuilder, PostGIS, PostgreSQL, OpenStreetMap)
- Strong working knowledge of geographic, cartographic principles, image processing, database principles, geospatial production techniques, good data management practices, and graphics design (Adobe Creative Suite – Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).
- Experience researching, compiling, and summarizing a variety of informational and statistical data and materials to make qualitative and quantitative decisions and communicate results effectively.
- Strong skills in problem-solving, analytics, and statistics, generation of production, quality figures, and development and documentation of data analyses.
- Participating in the development, documentation, implementation, and maintenance of policies and procedures that ensure the accuracy of GIS information is maintained.
- Experience with using GPS and organizing field data collection.
- A good grasp of the English language and demonstrated technical and report writing skills.
- Able to work both collaboratively with others and independently under minimal supervision.
- Takes initiative and responsibility for own work. Committed to high standards of work quality. Set priorities and organize time efficiently.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Comfortable communicating with all stakeholders, including non-technical people. Skill in listening perceptively and conveying awareness.
- Receives feedback constructively and applies it to learn and improve performance.
- Comfortable and responsive communicating remotely (via email, phone, SMS, skype).
- Available for some travel.
- Keen attention to detail.
- Higher education (e.g. Masters) in Urban Studies or Planning, GIS, Geography, Transportation, or another subject with equivalent work experience.
- College-level knowledge of statistical analysis.
- 2+ years of experience as a geospatial analyst.
- Fluent in speaking and writing Bahasa.
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with other parties to obtain different data sources.
- Experience in programming in Python.
- Experience with open-source software, its development policies and methodology, with web map development (OpenGeoSuite, GoogleMaps API, MapBox, ArcGIS Online, etc.)
- Knowledge of spatial planning and planning enforcement systems in Indonesia.
- Demonstrated experience in performing spatial analysis for urban planning applications.
- Knowledge of geospatial data sources in Indonesia.
- Knowledge of geospatial data interoperability and metadata standards
- Passion for spatial analysis and planning.
The consultant will work for 50 days, and will report to Taimur Samad (TTL, MUDP) and Thalyta Yuwono (TTL, Sustainable Cities); and will coordinate closely with the Urban Team.
