Consultant on Hydrological Forecasting Services in the Great Horn of Africa Region at Climate Prediction and Applications Centre

The scope of work are:

• Dedicated support to all phases needed to complete the transfer of the FloodPROOFS East Africa operational system and products to ICPAC and EAHW, as well as for new system releases following implementation of new products and updates.
• Develop a Flood Watch system with optimized features close to that of the Drought Watch system (https://droughtwatch.icpac.net/). The enhanced East Africa Flood Watch will be a public online system that routinely present floods forecasts information from ICPACMIKE Hydro systems, FloodPROOFS East Africa, GeoFSM and other models over the region.
• Automate selected workflows of data processing chains and reporting.
• Flood watch system to have the functionalities similar to drought watch system.
• Integration of the flood watch warning/products in to the ICPAC East Africa Hazards watch system.
• Technical support to the IGAD flood monitoring activities.

Qualifications/Requirements

Education:

• University degree in Computer Science, Geo-Informatics, Computer Engineering, IT or other relevant field.
• Minimum of two (2) years of relevant experience in geo-applications design and development.

Technical qualifications

• Experience working with scripting languages (especially Python) to automate geoprocessing/large data workflows.
• Demonstrate knowledge of web technologies, such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Experience with application containerization (Docker) and deployment on cloud infrastructure.
• Experience working on a variety of software development projects and developing frontend web solutions.
• Proven experience (deployed projects, Github code) with designing and developing production ready scalable geospatial web applications with open- source industry standard technologies such as Node.js, React, Mapbox GL, Leaflet, Carto, python, Geoserver, Mapserver, GDAL.
• Sound knowledge of SQL and PostGIS spatial database.
• Experience developing REST API and a good understanding of microservices architecture.
• Advanced knowledge of OGC geospatial standards like WMS, WFS, WCS, WPS, Simple Features for SQL.
• Experience working with Go Language is an advantage.
• Experience handling and analyzing Earth Observation data in different data formats is desirable.
• Candidates should demonstrate their qualifications and proficiency in web application development and geo-application development (provide links to at least 2 samples of previous work and/or Github code).

Overview of the assignment

• Position: IT Consultant;
• Location: ICPAC Headquarter (Nairobi, Kenya);
• Duration: 3 months (October, November, December 2024);
• Expected staring date: 2-4 weeks after completion of the selection procedure;
• Reporting and responding to: CIMA Foundation;
• Contract: Consultancy position;
• Compensation range: gross amount from 10.000,00 USD.