GISData intern
GISData intern
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Job Description
The European Cyclists Federation (ECF) is the worlds largest and bestknown federation of procycling civil society organisations. We promote cycling as a sustainable climatefriendly and healthy means of transport and leisure. We do this by advocating for the integration of cycling in transport mobility and sustainable tourism policy at the level of the European Union and at the national regional and local levels.
Tasks
The main task of the GIS/Data intern is to work with the ECF team on a groundbreaking new project to study crossborder cycling infrastructure in Europe and to help create a new data baseline to enable EU authorities to continously collect data on cycling infrastructure.
The intern will assist the ECF team with finding reviewing and summarising available national data across different EU countries on:
- Cycling networks (cycle infrastructure cycle routes)
- Cycling usage data (cycling mode share counting data)
- Road safety data
The intern will also have the opportunity to be situated within ECFs wider policy advocacy and project work and be able to take advantage of numerous learning opportunities that can be used for career development.
Requirements
We are looking for candidates who:
- Have a basic understanding of cycling infrastructure terminology and are eager to learn more
- Can open and understand the structure of GIS datasets in different formats such as ESRI shapefiles geopackages geoJSON and CSV files
- Have a good command of spoken and written English
- Can use machine translation to find information on a website or in a document written in a foreign language
- Is organised and can prioritise tasks
Benefits
You will have a place in the worlds largest and bestknown cyclists federation promoting cycling as the healthiest most climatefriendly and efficient means of transport and leisure.
You will be a part of an international team located in Brussels full of friendly and passionate colleagues. ECF will provide comprehensive training throughout your internship ensuring you can develop valuable skills and gain experience in the field that you can use for your career development.
We offer a fulltime 6month internship paid 1035 monthly. This is a professional internship agreement according to Belgian law called a Convention dimmersion professionnelle in French or Beroepsinlevingsovereenkomst in Dutch. It includes a clear description of tasks and the expected competences to be acquired by the end of the internship.
Candidates are expected to be able to live and work in Belgium and the EU during their internship. Ideally the candidate should start in February 2025.
Please submit your CV and cover letter (maximum 1 page) through this portal by 18 January 2025.
Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis online until we find a suitable candidate. We will only contact shortlisted candidates due to the high volume of applications we expect for this role.
Interviews will consist of two parts:
- A technical exercise of about one hour which we will use to determine a candidates technical familiarity with GIS datasets
- A traditional 30minute interview about the candidates experience and qualifications to determine whether the person is a good fit for ECF
ECF is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates irrespective of racial or ethnic origin opinions or beliefs gender sexual orientation health or disabilities.
Employment Type
Full Time
