AC Consultant or Special Consultant for the Landslide Group

APPLY FOR THIS POSITION Are you interested in working with landslide monitoring, mapping, and risk analyses? Then you might be the person we need for the monitoring efforts in the Department of Geology.

About the position

The Avalanche Group is dedicated to increasing community safety against avalanches and related events such as tsunami surges. You will be part of a smaller team in a rapidly developing area. We are looking for a colleague with relevant skills to strengthen our team and contribute to avalanche monitoring. Some travel activities and fieldwork are to be expected throughout the year.

Your tasks will be:

• Daily monitoring of landslide areas with the help of a monitoring system
• Monthly publication of situation assessments
• Regional screening for potentially unstable rock masses
• Participate in the development and implementation of monitoring strategies and risk analyses in collaboration with relevant authorities, local communities, and international partners.
• Plan and conduct fieldwork, including measurements with drones and seismic equipment.
• Quality assurance, analysis, organization, and communication of collected field data
• Advise decision-makers
• Implement an information campaign and build capacity for a nationwide integrated risk management for landslide hazards.
• Collaboration with research environments to develop monitoring efforts tailored to Greenlandic conditions.

Professional qualifications

We imagine that you:

• Has a relevant professional education, for example, geologist, geographer, remote sensing specialist, engineer, or similar.
• Has knowledge of geographic information systems (GIS) and/or programming
• Preferably has experience with risk management and natural hazards.

• It is an advantage if you speak Greenlandic, Danish, and English.
• You are committed and good at collaborating.
• Strong communication skills
• You work independently and meet deadlines.
• You have knowledge of Greenlandic societal conditions.
• It is an advantage if you have experience with fieldwork in remote regions.

We are about 40 employees in the Department of Business, Raw Materials, Energy, Justice, and Gender Equality. The position is organizationally located in the Department of Geology, which consists of 1 department head and 11 geoscientific employees.

The Department of Geology is the primary geoscientific advisor on raw materials for the Government of Greenland.

You can read more about the Department at https://govmin.gl/ and about the work of the landslide group at https://govmin.gl/en/landslides/.

We offer:

• An exciting, challenging, and versatile job
• A dynamic and proactive department with a strong sense of unity.
• Opportunities for influence over your work tasks
• Opportunities for further education

Salary and employment conditions, including the right to travel for joining and leaving and relocation of personal belongings, in accordance with the agreement/collective agreement in force at the time of commencement between the Government of Greenland and the relevant negotiating organization.

The working hours are, as a starting point, 40 hours a week.

Housing

No staff housing is provided for the position. If an applicant already has staff housing through employment with the Self-Government, the right to the assigned staff housing is retained. The staff housing is linked to the employment relationship and must be vacated upon termination of the employment relationship.

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