Your tasks :
- Provide support for the preparation and computation of the project’s global emission inventory data;
- Develop a database infrastructure to host a high-spatial resolution emission inventory for greenhouse gases and air pollutants;
- Develop high-spatial resolution proxies at European and global level to downscale national emissions for all emitting sectors;
- Develop and apply a consistent methodology for greenhouse gas and air pollutant emission estimation for global urban areas and sub-national level;
- Ensure data quality control, data integrity, database optimization.
Requirements:
- Master’s degree in IT or relevant discipline, combined with minimum 5 years of relevant working experience in IT;
- Good knowledge of Geographical Information Systems software (ArcGIS, ArcMap, QGIS);
- Good knowledge of Python and R applied to spatial data and data visualization;
- Experience in integrating high spatial resolution data from a variety of different systems to database format, with increasing volumes of data and ensuring optimal performance;
- Deep knowledge in provision of technical evaluations;
- Experience in quality assessment provision;
- The following would be considered valuable assets:
- Understanding of environmental and climate change related issues.
- Experience in developing up to date greenhouse gas emission inventories at global, national, sub national and urban level.
- Experience in the processing and analysis of data, preferably in the area of emissions, air quality and climate change.
- Knowledge of PHP, JavaScript (incl. Ajax), XHTML, CSS.
- Knowledge of MySQL Database, Microsoft SQL Server Database, IIS and PHP configuration of webserver.
- Excellent command of the English language.