International Water Management Institute (IWMI) a CGIAR Research Center is seeking applications from suitably qualified candidates for a short-term assignment under the project titled "From Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia and North Africa".
Project Background
About From Fragility to Resilience in Central West Asia and North Africa (F2R-CWANA) Initiative:
Climate impacts are putting pressure on rainfed agroecosystems as the main source of food and protein, affecting food security and livelihoods. Water scarcity, biodiversity depletion and land degradation are accelerating, reducing farm productivity, and sharpening social and political divides. Rural unemployment is driving over-urbanization, deepening inequality for women and youth. Action is urgently needed to build more resilient agrifood systems in the CWANA region, primed to withstand the effects of climate change and generate better livelihoods for rural communities. The Initiative aims to respond to the climate, nutrition and agrifood challenges most affecting the CWANA region by applying, scaling and supporting effective, resilience-focused solutions, reducing fragility and conflict, and empowering all stakeholders for change.
F2R-CWANA Work Package 4 (WP4) “Integrated food, land, water and energy systems for climate-resilient landscapes”, clarifying limits to growth and improving the long-term potential for sustainable livelihoods, including through strengthening inclusive policies and governance for integrated management across the food-land-water-energy nexus. One of the WP4’s expected outputs is “Web-based dashboard of national and key basin water accounts developed”.
About Water Accounting+:
Water Accounting+ (WA+), a multi-institutional collaboration, develops water accounts based primarily on earth observation data WA+ provides measurements, supports reporting, planning, and monitoring of water resources and uses standardized terminology which helps facilitate coherent decision-making across sectors and disciplines. There has been significant investment in improving the science and methodologies of WA+ over the years, and there is need for complimentary investment in the presentation and marketing of the actual Water Accounts and water security indicators. This assignment will use the prepared water accounting outputs (spatial data and indicators) for a river basin in Morocco.
Objective of the Assignment
The objective of this assignment is to:
develop methods for the dynamic visualization of water accounting results and indicators to make them more intuitively understandable to decision-makers and broader audiences,
develop a dashboard to showcase the dynamic visualizations, and
train local partner (s) focal point (s) on using the dashboard and handover it the WA dashboard to the local partners.
Scope of Work
Outputs:
In collaboration with IWMI MENA office team and the local partners in Morocco, the consultant is responsible for developing fully functional visualizations of existing water accounting results (based on existing spatial and temporal data) that can easily be reproduced as new results are made available. The visualizations must be:
Easily manipulated and updated, including enabling the importing of data from Amazon Web Services to the ESRI Africa Geoportal.
Able to be easily presented, interacted with, included in reports, and printed.
Consistent with IWMI’s visual design language and branding guidelines.
These visualizations should allow both technical and non-technical users to easily and efficiently interpret water accounting outputs. Examples of possible interactive and dynamic visualizations include:
Water cycle visualization: Show basic logic and data via the water cycle
Interactive and dynamic resources visualization: Show proportional breakdown of water uses and types; allow user to click on water use or type to see definition and provide more information.
Requirements
The successful candidate will possess the following:
Essential
Master or equivalent in software engineering, data science, data visualization or social science that emphasizes GIS and data visualization.
Proficient in R, python or other coding languages used to build dashboards based on spatial (Raster and vector) datasets and user interface design
5 years of experience in working on data visualization, building user interfaces, GIS and web map applications with successful references
Experience working with ESRI web map applications
Experience building user interfaces and developing data visualizations
