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 crisis-monitoring and information-management activities, including monitoring incoming information, circulating updates and notifying relevant stakeholders of new developments or activations.
• Contribute to rapid-analysis activities when required.

Minimum qualifications and experience

• University degree in Information Technology, Geoinformatics, Geography, GIS or a related field , corresponding to EQF Level 7 or equivalent.
• At least 15 years of professional IT experience .