GIS Associate job at Universal Service Fund (USF)

Universal Service Fund, a leading IT and Telecommunications organization working under section 42 of the Companies Act 2017, (previously Companies Ordinance 1984) is looking for dynamic and highly motivated professionals for the following roles:

GIS Associate job at Universal Service Fund (USF)

USF strives to provide an environment of diversity, integrity, growth, and innovation and offers an excellent compensation package and fringe benefits to its employees. The selected candidate will be offered a three-year contract extendable by mutual consent up to the age of superannuation i.e., 60 Years (as per the Company’s policy).

Reporting to: Director Implementation

Job Group: OP4

Department: Implementation

Qualification

• Bachelor’s Degree in Geography/Environmental Science (16 years of education) with major in GIS (MS in Remote Sensing & GIS will be preferred).

Experience

• On-hand experience with ArcGIS, ERDAS Imagine, MapInfo, and other GIS tools and software for identification of unserved/underserved areas with respect to Telecom /Mobile/Optical Networks, Visual Analysis, change detection, supervised and unsupervised classification estimation.

Why should you join USF?

At USF Pakistan, we give you the opportunity to become a competent professional in an environment of diversity, integrity, growth, and innovation. we enable you to realize your dreams in an environment of openness to new mindsets. You will play a key role in creating & sustaining a company image of empowering the underserved & unserved community of Pakistan.

Position Related:

• How does the position contribute towards the overall objectives of the organization The mandate of USF is to provide services in unserved and underserved areas. Identification of such areas is a critical task. GIS Implementation Associate is responsible for identifying unserved populations in targeted areas by validating Mauza profiling activity and providing coverage as per the contract while maintaining, organizing, and sharing data with management.

Goals

Outline key performance indicators of the role

• Evaluation of Mauza identification form (MIF) of each project.
• Managing and organizing project-wise MIF reports and tabular datasets. 
• Highlighting Low population mauzas to the concerned project manager of the project.
• Effective tracking and communication of mauza profiling status and metrics with management.
• Data sharing with internal/External stakeholders of USF.
• Improvement of processes, procedures, and tools in the Implementation department.

Your Typical day at work

• Validating MIF’s data's and providing timely responses to the Project managers and service providers for the finalization of reports.
• Managing the geodatabase of all projects according to the audited figures (Sites, Mauzas, Nodes, etc.)
• To perform coverage analysis and analyze geo-telco data to implement broadband projects while considering the maximum underserved/unserved population.
• To perform GIS-based analysis of existing optical network and layout of new network, routes, terrain, soil categorization, node placement, and Tehsil/Town boundaries.
• Use GIS tools to identify and categorize, population, tehsils, union councils, their boundaries, roads, and telecom wired/wireless infrastructure.
• Spatial Data Analysis based on existing telecom nodes, routes, coverage, etc and identify unserved/underserved areas and analyze coverage complaints received via PM portal/PTA.
• To highlight low-population mazes to the concerned project manager of the project and to prepare a change request sheet for noting approval.
• To ensure effective tracking and communication of mauza profiling status and metrics to management and internal stakeholders of USF. 
• To share datasets with internal stakeholders of USF

Functional Skills / Knowledge Areas

• Strong written and oral communication skills
• IT skills, including the use and manipulation of complex databases and spreadsheets
• Numerical skills with the ability to analyze data and statistics
• Familiarity with Ordnance Survey mapping and digitizing techniques
• Team working skills and the ability to work independently
• Time management & ability to work under intense deadlines
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Google Earth Pro, and ArcGIS platforms

For a detailed job description of the roles, please visit our website https://usf.org.pk/career

To apply for the position, please visit: www.njp.gov.pk 

The last degree attained duly attested by HEC must be presented at the time of appointment. Please apply within 17 days from the date of publication of this job advertisement.