Pacific Community

Communauté du Pacifique

JOB DESCRIPTION

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Organizational Context and Organization Chart

The Pacific Community (SPC) is the principal scientific and technical organisation in the Pacific region, supporting development since 1947. We are an international development organisation owned and governed by our 27 country and territory members. In pursuit of sustainable development to benefit Pacific people, our organisation works across more than 25 sectors. We are known for our knowledge and innovation in such areas as fisheries science, public health surveillance, geoscience, and conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.

The Geoscience, Energy and Maritime (GEM) Division of SPC has four work areas: Oceans and Maritime, Energy and Georesources, Disaster and Community Resilience and Earth and Oceans Observation Services (EOO). GEM services to SPC’s members include assessments of the potential of ocean and onshore mineral resources, maritime boundary data collection, coastal protection and management, geo-hazard assessment, and strategic and technical advice and assistance in the areas of water and sanitation, disaster management and building community and environmental resilience. This includes adaptation action to climate change, and mapping and surveying (including GIS and remote sensing).

SPC GEM’s Earth and Ocean Observation (EOO) capabilities utilises global satellite and earth observations systems to support all of our technical focus areas. The programme’s work aims to inform understanding of the biophysical changes occurring in the Pacific region such as changes to our coastlines, to understand maritime zones or to develop more accurate early warning systems for disaster to protect lives and livelihoods of Pacific peoples. The Digital Earth Pacific (DEP) is an operational earth observation system that uses decades of satellite data to show how local environments are changing over time. DEP provides decision-makers with the information needed to make sound decisions addressing the Pacific’s challenges, most notably climate change, food security and disaster.

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Key Result Areas (KRAs):

  1. Project and Resource Coordination (25%)
  2. Project Planning and Technical Coordination (30%)
  3. Stakeholder Engagement, Monitoring and Evaluation (15%)
  4. Capacity Development Strategy Development and Implementation (20%)
  5. Project Reporting and Communication (10%)

The performance requirements of the Key Result Areas are broadly described below

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The above performance requirements are provided as a guide only. The precise performance measures for this job will need further discussion between the jobholder and supervisor as part of the performance development process.

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Most Challenging Duties Typically Undertaken (Complexity):

  • Managing constantly evolving timelines and expectations.
  • Supporting the Geoinformatics Team in the development, testing, validating and revising of earth observations products, related to data analysis notebooks and other data products for Digital Earth Pacific (DEP) and others.
  • Working with and across diverse regional and national teams for data collection, collation, pre-processing, post-processing and analysis.
  • Supporting capacity/building training activities across PICTS including supporting development of training materials.

Functional Relationships & Relationship Skills:

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Level of Delegation:

Routine Expenditure Budget: 0 EUR

Budget Sign off Authority without requiring approval from direct supervisor: 0 EUR

Personal Specification:

This section is designed to capture the expertise required for the role at the 100% fully effective level. (This does not necessarily reflect what the current position holder has.) This may be a combination of knowledge / experience, qualifications or equivalent level of learning through experience or key skills, attributes or job specific competencies.

Qualifications

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Knowledge/Experience

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Key Skills/Attributes/Job Specific Competencies

The following levels would typically be expected for the 100% fully effective level:

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Key Behaviours

All employees are measured against the following Key Behaviours as part of Performance Development:

  • Change and Innovation
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Teamwork
  • Promotion of Equity and Equality
  • Judgement

Personal Attributes

  • High level of professional integrity and ethics
  • Friendly demeanor
  • Timeliness
  • Creative
  • Efficient

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  • Self-direction and initiative
  • Problem solver

Change to Job Description:

Occasionally it may be necessary to consider changes in the job description in response to the changing nature of the work environment – including technological requirements or statutory changes. Such changes may be initiated as necessary by SPC. This Job Description may also be reviewed as part of the preparation for performance planning for the annual performance cycle.

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