Assessment Surveyor ( Retainer), Multiple positions

Purpose

Surveyor will provide evidence based data for GIS officer from the Uganda Country.

This data will allow us to understand accessibility to social services:

• The data will be used for Rural Access Index calculation (methodology to analyse the access to the road networks developed by the World Bank);
• The data will be used to understand condition and accessibility of the road network and social infrastructure;
• The data will be a collection of critical points, information on infrastructure conditions and functionality;

• Collect data on roads and social services infrastructures that help us understand the accessibility;
• Have to understand the population dynamics and movement;
• Develop an overview of the level of access to social infrastructure and the services they provide;
• Analyse the functionality of the infrastructure (road and social services);  
• Conduct training for the local District engineers;

This exercise will be useful to:

• Demonstrate the distribution of social service delivery points within the determined area with a focus on facilities (health, education, markets, and other social services)
• Understand the routes to access to services;
• Provide the rationale for evidence-based planning and resource allocation by Area/County governments and partners,
• Understand the local potential for growth and development,
• Serve as an advocacy tool for results based programming and investment,
• Develop a tool to measure the impact of the interventions.

Specific Outputs

1. Field Surveys according to given plan

• The surveyor will be expected to conduct field surveys in the designated counties with a local assigned district engineer;
• The survey will consist of :
  1. Interviewing local people to get their main concern about accessibility and facilities (water point, school, market, health facilities);
  2. Taking georeferenced photos of the road critical points (Elements that make the road difficult to use (like water path, mud surface, river, drainage problems, etc)
  3. Taking georeferenced photos of the facilities (exterior, interior)  - a minimum of 2 per room and 4 for exteriors;
  4. Filling the forms designed for the facilities or infrastructures (1 form per facilities)
  5. Recording the trace (GPX), the route she/he has taken2. Data input and report writing data input and report writing

• The surveyor will be expected to enter the data into the defined format in Excel file for analysis and reporting for each county:  

1. Excel file for the list of critical points for a section of road
2. Excel file for all villages and cities encountered 
3. Excel file with all the facilities with their name, type, conditions

• The surveyor will make a sheet on each section of road visited

1. This sheet will have a map with all criticals points represented for the given section of road
2. A map with all critical points will be created
3. The best photo of each critical point will be on the side of the map (see attached example)

• The surveyor will make a sheet for each facility visited

1. A small table will be given on the top explaining the capacity, condition, and usage
2. 5 lines description of the facilities
3. List of photos confirming the explanation before
4. The surveyor will provide a training report concerning the district engineers;

 Monitoring and Progress Controls

• The Surveyor will get a brief training on what is to be expected and the guidelines that need to be followed during the course of the information gathering session.  
• The Surveryor will get 2 days training on the field with the Assessment specialist.
• The Surveyor will need to organize a travel plan according to the initial plan given – including contact details of persons who they are to meet.
• The Surveyor will report progress of the assessment to the UNOPS Assessment Specialist at the end of each day by mail or telephone from the field assignment.
• Electronic data such as GPX, photos from the phone will have to be uploaded on a daily basis.

• Secondary education is required ;
• Relevant professional diploma or Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Management, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), computer sciences or any related area may be accepted in lieu of relevant years of experience (respectively).
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• Secondary education completed and a minimum of 4 years’ experience in surveying with GPS and/ or USING Geospatial applications is required;
• Experience in use on android smartphone and its apps, computer software is required;
• Experience in Mapping and cartographic concepts is desired;
• Skills in GPS and surveying, Geospatial Information application and Data collection, validation and reporting, are required;

• Fluency in written and oral English required

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.

1. Contract type: Local Individual Contractor Agreement
2. Contract level : LICA 4
3. Contract duration; Short-Term ICA -Maximum duration 2 months

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Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.