Data Visualization and Tableau Dashboard Consultant

This research is supported under the Digital Innovations for Water Secure Africa (DIWASA) Phase 2 project. Under DIWASA Phase 1, we performed continental-scale water accounting assessments using data from existing open-source data cubes such as Digital Earth Africa under a newly developed Scale Invariant Water Accounting Plus (SIWA+) framework. A continental-scale WA+ assessment has three distinct benefits: 1) the ability to produce foundational layers at a continental scale, 2) providing a national and regional overview of water availability indicators that can feed national strategic plans, and 3) offering national and regional water resources status (through the basic water accounting sheets—resource base sheet and evapotranspiration sheet) at a continental scale.

Duties & Responsibilities:

The objective of this assignment is to develop Tableau-based dashboards of key water accounts for national and river basins. The consultant will support the development of visually pleasing, easily consumable dashboards to convey complex scientific information on water resource status and consumption to both technical and non-technical audiences through graphical displays.

Fully functional visualizations of existing water accounting results (based on existing spatial and temporal data) that can easily be reproduced as new results become available. The visualizations must be:

• Easily manipulated and updated, including enabling the importing of data from various sources (e.g., Excel, Amazon Web Services).
• Able to be easily presented, interacted with, included in reports, and printed.
• Consistent with IWMI’s visual design language and branding guidelines.
• These visualizations should allow both technical and non-technical users to easily and efficiently interpret water accounting outputs. Examples of possible interactive and dynamic visualizations include:
• Water cycle visualization: Show basic logic and data via the water cycle.
• Interactive and dynamic resources visualization: Show proportional breakdown of water uses and types; allow the user to click on a water use or type to see definitions and provide more information.
• Dashboard: Summarizing water availability and scarcity indicators for a river basin over a particular time period.
• Train local partners and focal points on using the dashboard during the handover of the WA dashboard to local partners.
• Develop a manual and technical documentation to be presented to local partners at handover.

Requirements:

Minimum Educational Qualifications & Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Data Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Remote Sensing, or a closely related subject.
• Experience handling large datasets.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Basic background in hydrology and water balance modeling.
• A good background in knowledge and experience in GIS/Remote Sensing data manipulation.
• Tableau Dashboard programming background.
• Good communication skills and experience in handling office software.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the capacity to work in a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, and multicultural environment.

Language Proficinecy:

• Excellent oral and written language skills in English, including effective listening and strong verbal and written communication ability.

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