GIS Lead, P-4, Temporary Position, 364 days, #00137240, Office of Strategy & Evidence - Innocenti, Florence, Italy (remote/work from home)

Organizational Context

UNICEF works in over 190 countries to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential. The Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE)–Innocenti strengthens coherence between evidence, strategy, and programme quality, ensuring decisions are anchored in high-quality data, research, and foresight.

Job Purpose

The Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE)–Innocenti is central to UNICEF’s ambition to deliver results for children in a rapidly changing and uncertain world. It was created to strengthen coherence between evidence, strategy and programme quality, ensuring that decisions across the organization are anchored in high quality data, research and foresight. OSE-Innocenti holds dual global accountabilities: Leadership and oversight of UNICEF’s evidence ecosystem, and leadership and direction of strategy, planning, monitoring, reporting, organizational performance and risk management. Together, these responsibilities strengthen the organization’s role and performance in the humanitarian and development continuum, reinforce results-based management and enable UNICEF to act as a future aware, evidence driven organization. This Temporary Appointment is required to complete and consolidate the current phase of UNICEF’s enterprise geospatial strategy.

Responsibilities

This Temporary Appointment is required to complete and consolidate the current phase of UNICEF’s enterprise geospatial strategy. The assignment is time-bound and deliverable-focused, with emphasis on maturing core geospatial platforms, institutionalizing administrative boundary governance, strengthening integration with corporate data and programme systems, and transferring reusable workflows, guidance, and service models to relevant business owners and technical teams. The assignment will also help UNICEF assess where GeoAI can responsibly accelerate priority geospatial workflows, particularly in relation to spatial data governance, emergency preparedness, programme analytics, and frontier data use cases, while ensuring that any AI-enabled approaches are documented, reproducible, and aligned with UNICEF standards for data quality, ethics, and responsible technology use. Key responsibilities include maturing UNICEF’s enterprise geospatial platform ecosystem, operationalizing authoritative spatial reference data governance, embedding geospatial capabilities into programme planning and monitoring systems, transitioning emergency geospatial support toward reusable preparedness and response models, advancing frontier geospatial analytics into reusable institutional capabilities, and establishing a sustainable geospatial service, support, and capacity model.

Work Experience

At least 8 years of progressively responsible experience in geospatial data, GIS platforms, spatial analytics, geospatial data engineering, geospatial product management, or related fields is required. Experience managing enterprise GIS platforms, geospatial governance and reference data, geospatial data integration, data pipelines and APIs, stakeholder engagement, capacity building, and delivery of geospatial products and services is required.

Skills

Enterprise GIS, Open-source geospatial ecosystems, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, QGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer, GeoNode, Leaflet, OpenLayers, MapLibre, GIS and statistical data concepts and standards

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