Remote Sensing & GIS Analyst

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About the Organization

NABCONS, a wholly owned subsidiary of NABARD (A Government of India promoted Direct Finance Institution) is India’s premier consultancy and advisory service provider with focus on the strategic spheres of agriculture and allied sectors such as food processing, rural infrastructure, climate change, natural resource management, banking and finance, micro enterprise and others. Through NABARD, NABCONS has a Pan India presence. It has Corporate at New Delhi, Zonal Office at Mumbai Hyderabad and Guwahati and 29 Principal Consultant’s offices, one in each State Capital. Further, NABCONS enjoys long-standing partnership with concerned ministries of GoI, all state Governments Banks, Corporates. NABCONS has also worked with International Agencies such as APRACA, IFAD, JICA, UNDP, GIZ, SDC and etc. It has Corporate Office Zonal Offices at Mumbai ,Hyderabad

Job Description

NABCONS invites ONLINE applications from Indian Citizens on contract basis, as Project Based Contract Staff for the post of Remote Sensing & GIS Analyst under project “Establishment of Remote Sensing Cell” at NABARD, Head Office, and Mumbai.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensuring seamless Remote Sensing (RS) and GIS based monitoring of various NABARD sponsored watershed / NRM projects for real time and online tracking of progress of implementation of interventions and their impact on various parameters of natural resource development and management.
• Maintaining liaison and coordinate on regular basis with the Executing Entity of the project and related departments of Govt. and also with Regional Offices of NABARD. The scope of work is likely to be expanded to NABARD assisted Tribal Development projects.
• Creation, maintenance and modification of BHUVAN web-portal along with a Bhuvan mobile app as per the requirement and suggestions from all the stakeholders viz. Project Implementing Agencies, District Development Managers and Regional Offices and Head Office of NABARD/General Public
• Creation of user IDs of the projects to be covered and hosting project data onto BHUVAN portal.
• Uploading shape files of each project created by PFA onto BHUVAN Portal
• Upload of watershed-level data and activity-wise sanction, release and utilization details by PFAs using NABARD-Bhuvan web-portal.
• Using Bhuvan Mobile App, Geo-tagging of assets created under the projects by uploading of photos of the assets from the site along with some basic information by the PFAs (facilitation)
• Guiding/Assisting DDMs posted in districts in moderation and acceptance/rejection of watershed/activity level data along with geo-tagging of assets.
• Through online portal facilitate real time tracking of Physical and Financial Progress of the projects
• Creation/modification of Dashboard showing most relevant reports to the management of NABARD
• Preparation and presenting to the management of various customized reports based on the data available in the portal by RO/HO
• Procurement of images and analysis of land use/cover changes
• Preparation of impact evaluation reports containing change detection in land-use categories in the project areas through comparison of satellite imagery
• Observation of progress through Bhuvan interface and data analysis from existing summary reports as well as understanding the trend related to geotagging.
• Regular visualization and monitoring of the watershed projects for physical and financial progress through BHUVAN portal
• Update mobile app and the portal on regular and continuous basis as per feedback of the users and need of the hour
• Handholding ROs and PFAs for timely uploading of project level data
• Handholding of DDMs in using the portal for moderation of uploaded data
• Provide a dashboard to monitor the project progress and change the same as and when required.
• Provide support to all the end-users, DDMs, ROs and HO on need basis.
• Provide Top Management with periodic reports/dashboards
• Any other work assigned by NABARD, HO as per the need

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• M.Sc/ M.E/ M.Tech in Remote Sensing/ Geomatics /GIS /Geoinformatics with an aggregate minimum of 60% marks (average of all semesters) or CGPA/ CPI Grading of a minimum of 6.00 on 10 point scale or equivalent

Experience

• Minimum 03 years of experience in satellite data handling / analysis and database design for Natural Resources related applications – Agriculture/ Forestry/ Soil science / Land Degradation / LULC & Wastelands / Water resource assessment / Ground water etc.

Following experience /qualities will be an added advantage

• Working experience in GIS tools like ArcGIS, ERDAS Imagine, Autodesk Map 3D, Auto CAD, other open source GIS software, etc.
• Having Certification on ArcGIS from ESRI.
• Knowledge on use of GIS related hardware and software and its application in Watershed and Natural Resource Management related activities.

Other Criteria

• The Candidate should have excellent knowledge of MS Office with proficiency in MS Excel & power point
• Fluency in reading, writing and speaking both English and Hindi

Interested candidates May Apply Online in the prescribed format within 11 days from 21 March 2024 to 31 March 2024 by clicking on the following link and filling the details therein:

Remote Sensing & GIS Analyst: https://forms.office.com/r/yUrzVGiA60

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