Data Analyst – Remote Sensing

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🔥 13 hours ago

🌐 Kenya, Ethiopia, +1 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🗺️ GIS

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PULA

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

🌾 Agriculture

🛡️ Insurance

Agriculture • Insurance • Technology

PULA is an agricultural insurance and technology company that designs and delivers innovative insurance and digital products to support smallholder farmers. They provide specialized crop and livestock insurance solutions, along with data services related to yield data collection and EUDR compliance services. Their aim is to help farmers manage yield risks, improve farming practices, and increase incomes. PULA has been recognized globally for its impact and innovation in the insurtech industry.

📋 Description

• Acquire, process, and analyze satellite imagery including Sentinel, Landsat, MODIS, and Planet, plus vegetation indices, rainfall, and soil moisture products • Develop and maintain workflows for crop type mapping, crop condition monitoring, yield estimation, and loss assessment • Validate remote sensing outputs using ground-truth data from crop cutting experiments and field surveys • Work with field boundaries, GPS points, and administrative layers in GIS tools • Support spatial sampling design for crop cutting experiments and surveys • Run data quality checks on remote sensing and field-collected data following SOPs • Identify gaps in quality-check SOPs and recommend improvements • Configure surveys and allocate field agents on the in-house data collection tool • Assist in survey creation and participate in crop cutting experiment and survey work as required • Identify project risks and issues and propose practical solutions • Determine appropriate methods for data analysis, quality checks, and operations assessment • Document findings, prepare reports and maps, and make recommendations • Develop and evaluate processes and procedures to improve project operations • Draft training materials, protocols, and technical documentation • Train field staff on new systems and processes • Provide the manager with regular daily, weekly, and ad-hoc updates

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness Management, Geography/Geoinformatics, Environmental Science, Information Systems, or a related field • Minimum of 2 years of experience in data analysis, preferably in a fast-paced NGO or agri-tech environment • Demonstrated experience working with satellite imagery or geospatial data • Proficiency in Python and R, including geospatial libraries such as rasterio, geopandas, GDAL, sf, and terra • Experience with GIS software such as QGIS or ArcGIS and cloud platforms such as Google Earth Engine • Proficiency in data visualization tools such as Power BI or similar • Knowledge of SQL • Familiarity with mobile data collection tools such as CommCare, KoboToolbox, or SurveyCTO • Knowledge of statistical methods for validation, sampling, and model evaluation • Ability to explain complex technical information through clear writing and strong verbal communication • Ability to turn technical data into presentations and maps for diverse audiences • Strong collaboration skills and team spirit • Self-driven, able to work independently with minimal supervision • Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize, and meet deadlines • Experience with agricultural insurance, index-based products, or smallholder farming contexts is nice to have • Experience with SAR data, weather data, or cloud-based geospatial pipelines is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• No specific benefits or compensation extras stated