Under the overall supervision of the Head of the Nairobi Convention Secretariat and in close coordination with the project manager of the SWIOFC-NC PP2 partnership project, the consultant will be responsible for the following:

Migrate and upload all Go-Blue Project data and outputs into the Nairobi Convention Clearing House Mechanism:

• Develop a dedicated web page for the Go-blue project in the Nairobi Convention website that mirror the Go-Blue project at https://goblue.co.ke/ https://www.unep.org/ https://goblue.rcmrd.org/ https://www.ciheam.org/project/go-blue/ and other related sites.
• Enhanced GoBlue project overview and project summary, project components, progress, project outputs, partnerships developed, including marine and coastal ecosystem services data, climate vulnerability data; geospatial data and grey literature, county spatial plans, fisheries co-management and value chains, aquaculture value chain, fish nurseries and hatcheries, cassava value chain, capacity building (of Vocational Training Centers (VTC), VTC instructors, JKP Secretariat, Beach Management Units), infrastructure development (labs, computer learning centres), income generating enterprises, environmental conservation and restoration, maritime governance, publications and media coverages.
• Create subpages for Jumuiya ya Kaunti za Pwani Counties (Lamu, Kilifi Mombasa, Kwale, Tana River and to mirror and showcase spatial plans as they are developed or updated. d. Carry out detailed data analysis and create metadata for all data and other products developed by GoBlue project. Resolve nomenclature gaps.
• Undertake development of interactive web maps using the ArcGIS online portal of the Nairobi Convention.

Develop a dashboard of visualization using ArcGIS online web maps, story maps, trend analysis, statistical and graphical illustrations on the impacts of the Go-Blue project on status of land-sea planning, using available data in the six counties on socio-economic and environmental challenges, capacity building and spatial areas with co-management of resources (boardwalks, MCS, eco-tourism), pilot activities of the Go Blue project in the six counties e.g. on new income-generating activities and opportunities (public areas, carbon projects and habitat restoration, waste recycling, constructed wetland, built fish landing site), policy and legal reforms, implementation of Kenya’s maritime strategy and enforcement of legal instruments and regulatory frameworks etc

Undertake innovative system analyses using satellite imagery to visualize spatial and temporal environmental and socioeconomic changes, at coastal counties level on urban land use and planning, fish landing sites, fishing areas, infrastructure (ports, harbours), maritime/ navigation routes, mangrove extent and degraded sites, seagrass extent, coral reef extent, and other changes happening in the coastal environment in Kenya.

Support development of analytics to track and report on a monthly basis, website traffic, performance, and user behaviour necessary to enhance content optimization, communication and visibility approaches tailored to the Go-Blue Project.

Qualiifications

• Post graduate university degree in Geographic Information Systems, Geomatic engineering, natural resource management, environmental sciences or related field is required.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in implementing geographic information system, interactive web-based database applications supporting dynamic online updating of content is required.
• Experience in enabling metadata interoperability standards on both spatial and non-spatial data is desirable.

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