Job Description

Global MapAid or simply “MapAid” is a social enterprise working with local people, to help them identify & map local solutions (hotspots) for their development, to help prevent disasters. The maps benefit policy makers, donors, non-government organizations and corporate social responsibility organizations, by focusing efforts where most needed. 

We were founded at Stanford University in 2003, and have registered in the USA and the UK with 40 unpaid volunteers across the world. Our Patron is Desmond Tutu.

An enthusiastic and responsive volunteer sought with these types of experience & skills:

• Building, reviewing and running hydraulic models and their outputs for the purposes of river flows, and flood management strategies.
• Hydraulogy or Hydraugeology Dergree desirable.
• Practical experience of flood risk assessments very beneficial.
• Familiar with Python to develop bespoke utilities and QGIS plugins for model management and data manipulation, and topographical surveys (Post-processed GPS via ATV).
• Analysing data and generating reports for strategic regional river monitoring programmes.
• Experience of data processing methods by running bespoke Matlab programs as well as editing and writing programs to improve the speed and quality of our data output.
• Experience of CGI for docu-movies would be a great bonus.
• A great team work ethic to work alongside volunteers, in the CGI field would be helpful.