Ephraim Danford

•Advising on GIS and information systems tasks
• Managing geospatial maps and analyzing spatial database information
• Leading the development of GIS products and maintain GIS databases
• Support database management activities/tasks
• Liaise with the Mission as assigned to conduct a series of trainings that will enable relevant staff to fully utilize the tools embedded within the USAID/Tanzania ArcGIS database.
• Conducting layered comparative analyses and supporting the identification of ongoing mapping needs across the Mission’s portfolio.
• Leading the data collection tasks required to continually update program and contextual data in the database by scheduling quarterly GIS update meetings with specific IPs and donor partners.
• Clean and collate quantitative data sets.
• Supporting the creation of real-time data visualization and reports for USAID.
• Supporting activity knowledge management (setting up and maintaining a knowledge management repository, developing an online platform repository, or developing a database).

• Work in collaboration with USAID Geo Centre Washington DC to support USAID Tanzania with GIS application in program
• Developing interactive mapping dashboards for data visualization and supporting decision making
• GIS Capacity building: support, as appropriate, by short-term technical assistance (STTA), will provide training and on-the-job instruction to improve the GIS capacity of USAID/Tanzania Mission, implementing partners, and other stakeholders
• Support and manage GIS applications based on growing business demands within project and USAID Mission
• Plan and coordinate GIS activities to meet outlined goals
• Develop quality control standards for system application
• Analyses and resolve system issues in a timely manner
• Perform data capture and analysis for GIS product
• Oversee data flow, management, and distribution activities to support GIS
• Support in designing and creating geospatial database to USAID Implementing partners
• Manage geospatial database and develop maps and aerial photography
• Maintain geospatial documentations for reference purposes
• Assist in preparation of annual budget
• Work in compliance with GIS standards and quality policies
• Provide technical guidance to Ips and USAID Tanzania mission as a GIS user
• Assist technical team in system design and development
• Stay abreast with latest developments in GIS field
• Data Management: support data management as needed for D4D evaluations and data collection activities
• This will include data cleaning, secure storage, preparation of descriptive statistics
• Collaboration with other team members
• Work closely with the D4D Team's M&E, capacity building, and performance monitoring specialists to operationalize a comprehensive Knowledge.

• Acting as a technical referent, providing technical advice and oversight of quality, and strengthening knowledge of the team with Tanzania Mission
• Acting as GIS POC between Tanzania mission and Geneva MSF Map Center
• Managing training and skills development support to staff with simple mapping, Google Earth, use of GPS
• Support simplified routine data collection, analysis, and reporting within MSF projects with focus on local project management (production of quarterly dashboard)
• Impact on project quality improvement linking data base with existing local supervision system
• Strategic data management support to the project management, and MSF data management staff active in the MSF project
• Ensure quality and timeliness of routine and ad hoc reports, queries and extracts as required by supervisors reporting and for MSF needs
• Strengthening the quality of data collection and reporting, in close collaboration with the data managers and epidemiologists active in the MSF project countries
• Set-up simplified data monitoring system (DMS) for projects where not yet in place and update outdated DMS according to new strategies and provide input into software system improvements
• Epidemiological mapping, data analysis and visualization for vector control team, Medical and logistics
• WASH Spatial data management and mapping for all refeegues camp in kigoma
• Medical and Logistics spatial data analysis in monthly bases as per medical department protocol
• Refugee camp survey and Spatial data collections by mobile and GPS every month
• Conducting assessments and ensuring the implementation, maintenance and monitoring of the mission's geographical information systems and producing in real time, a spatial analysis of the situation in the field, according to MSF protocols and standards to ensure an optimal running of the project
• Defining procedures and ensuring the implementation, monitoring, maintenance, and correct functioning of the mission's geographical information system
• Consulting directly with the staff to identify GIS needs and developing appropriate GIS products
• Conducting assessment and feasibility studies in the project to provide line managers with alternatives and possible solutions to challenges concerning GIS
• Support the data process/management strategies, used by the stakeholders involved in operational research projects or interventions, related to the MSF project
• Support the mentorship and stewardship of data collection and management of the routine M&E and additional data collection required for OR and routine reporting
• Ensure efficiency and integration within routine M&E reporting of the different MSF data needs in the involved countries
• Conduct field support visits to evaluate, conduct internal DQA and respond to M&E needs and Ensure that data collection is streamlined with the needs of the donor.

• Create maps and graphs, using GIS software and related equipment
• Meet with users to define data needs, project requirements, required outputs, or to develop applications
• Using and determining uses (assessing and understanding user needs) for the GIS software and databases and providing support to others in the organization in the development and application of GIS technologies
• Conduct Research to locate and obtain existing databases
• Gather, analysis, and integrate spatial data from staff and determine how best the information can be displayed using GIS
• Compile geographic data from a variety of sources including censuses, field observation, satellite imagery, aerial photographs, and existing maps
• Analyses spatial data for geographic statistics to incorporate into documents and reports
• Design and update database, applying additional knowledge of spatial feature representations
• Enter new map data through use of a digitizer or by direct input of coordinate information using the principles of cartography including coordinate systems, longitude, latitude, elevation, topography, and map scales
• Analyses geographic relationships among varying types of data
• Operate and maintain GIS system hardware, software, plotter, digitizer, color printer, and video camera.

• Training and capacity building on database use and spatial data collection
• Internal data quality assurance (IQA)
• Spatial data processing by Excel, Map Cite, and ArcGIS
• Site Data Collection and Data entry super vision
• Data base maintenance and Data entry form designing
• Map production for blocks and building for tax collection.

• Mapping areas with illegal dumps and spatial data collection
• Developing a Map for different department works like road sweeping, waste collections
• Data Collection, Visualization and Analysis by Excel
• Support and participate in GIS based monitoring and evaluation
• Manage data site collections and Budgeting data collection activities
• Organizing GIS training/workshops.