Duties and Responsibilities entail;

• Ensuring design and development of appropriate database structure to help organize the existing data into logical and rational hierarchy that protects spatial data.
• Ensuring planning and organizing data collection, compilation and analysis on roads, bridges and other roads structures using GPS tools
• Ensuring production of accurate maps and other representations of data for use by KRB staff and the public.
• Maintain and update maps and spatial data using the various GIS software and related devices.
• Undertake desk-based data capture (digitizing) to convert paper maps and analogue data sources to GIS datasets.
• Ensuring designing and building standardized plans and layout for the maps that support
• KRB staff and stakeholders as per KRB standards.
• Coordinating maintenance of the GIS devices including the software, hardware, printers, and all the other required GIS devices.
• Oversee interpretation and communication of GIS products to end users
• Ensuring recording and documentation details of map updates, additions and/or deletions.
• Create and document procedures and metadata definitions.

Person specifications

• For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:
• A minimum twelve (12) years in relevant work and at least four (4) years in a management role in comparable position in the Public Service or in the Private Sector;
• Bachelor’s Degree in Geo-information Systems or Surveying and Photogrammetry or an equivalent qualification from a recognized institution.
• Master’s Degree in Geo-information Systems or Surveying and Photogrammetry or an equivalent qualification from a recognized institution
• Registered as a Full Member in Institution of Surveyors of Kenya (ISK), (Land Surveyors or GIS Chapter) with a post registration experience of five (5) years.
• Have a strong command in Esri’s ArcGIS products e.g., ArcPad, ArcMap, GIS server and portal, collector for GIS, workforce, and Survey 123.
• Have strong Geo-ICT skills in web mapping, geodatabases (Postgres/PostGIS, SQL, Oracle and ArcSDE) and GIS programming in Javascript, HTML, CSS, and Silverlight etc.
• Leadership course lasting not less four (4) weeks from a recognized institution.
• Proficiency in Computer applications.
• Demonstrated competence in work performance.
• Fulfilled the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution.