Senior Geospatial Analyst

Senior Geospatial Analyst – Crisis, Conflict & Security
GIS Specialist | Freelance
Day rate:  €550–600

Location:

Northern Italy – Hybrid (a few days per month / 1–2 days per week maximum)
Expected project duration:  4–6 years

Contract:

12-month rolling contract
Engagement:  Freelance

About the opportunity
We are recruiting a  Senior Geospatial Analyst  to support a major international public-sector organisation working in the areas of  crisis management, disaster risk, security and humanitarian response .

The wider programme focuses on strengthening situational awareness for crisis management and improving understanding of emerging risks. Activities include crisis monitoring and response, satellite-based emergency mapping, disaster early-warning systems, risk analytics and geospatial intelligence.

You will work within a specialist geospatial team delivering analysis and assessments that support  international crisis response, civil protection, security and humanitarian decision-making .

The role
You will turn satellite imagery, conflict-event datasets and heterogeneous open-source information into reliable GIS datasets, high-quality maps, interactive visualisations and timely analytical reports.
The role combines  advanced spatial analysis and Earth observation  with crisis monitoring, GIS automation, data-quality management and the development of digital geospatial information platforms.

Key responsibilities
Design and deliver high-quality situation maps, thematic mapping products, geographical visualisations and analytical outputs relating to crisis, conflict and security.
Monitor crisis, conflict and security developments, systematically selecting, collecting, validating, analysing and integrating open-source information into geospatial datasets.
Apply advanced geoprocessing, spatial statistics and modelling techniques to produce geospatial assessments and support crisis reporting.
Process and analyse remote-sensing and Earth-observation imagery in conflict-affected and disaster-affected areas, including land-use/land-cover classification, change detection, damage assessment and reconstruction monitoring.
Combine text, imagery, statistics and other open-source material into actionable  OSINT/GEOINT , structured GIS datasets and situational-awareness products.
Design conflict-mapping workflows combining event-based datasets with open-source geospatial information.
Contribute to the continued development of digital geospatial platforms and information products.
Support platform maintenance, including user-access policies, user-role configurations and platform-usage monitoring.
Support the integration and deployment of  AI-driven functionality and geospatial large-language-model capabilities  within geospatial information platforms.
Create, maintain and curate GIS datasets, ensuring accuracy, consistency and compliance with metadata and data-model standards.
Maintain and optimise geodatabases, including version control, data lineage and integration with external sources.
Manage coordinate reference systems, projections and transformations to maintain spatial accuracy across platforms.
Implement data-quality checks, validation rules and automated workflows to ensure spatial data is accurate, complete and consistent.
Develop interactive dashboards and story maps using  Power BI and ArcGIS Online , covering crisis, conflict and policy-related information.
Support geospatial data dissemination through web-mapping technologies, including WFS and enterprise GIS environments.
Prepare presentations, analytical reports, technical documentation and emergency reports explaining GIS findings and methodologies.
Participate in crisis-management exercises, providing analytical geospatial products.
Support operational…