ITC has started a strategic investment programme overarching 16 projects, called Ingenuity. Together, the Ingenuity projects form a creative and innovative program that supports the ambitions of ITC as described in its Mission and Vision document.
You will be working for 60-70% of your time on one of the Ingenuity projects, the development of a SAAS for spatial multi-criteria evaluation (SMCE), following the principles of such SMCE functionality available in ILWIS, a desktop Geographic Information System (GIS). Development initially takes place with and for United Nations organizations and alumni companies to support upscaling of the use of SMCE methods for strategic urban and regional planning, location choice, environmental assessment, and other spatial planning and decision applications. You will be working in a small project team, also in collaboration with internal and external developers, for whom you will be the principle developer.
The remainder of your time you will be working on software development for other Ingenuity projects including coordination of software development activities and strongly related to ongoing development activities at ITC.
Your main tasks are:
- Analyzing system requirements
- Engaging with subset of end-users and clients
- Designing and implementing back-end and front-end
- Integrating with API’s from financial SAAS providers
- Develop a testing program with alumni
- Work break down and coordinating development activities
- Engaging with clients and project leaders from Ingenuity and ITC
Information and application
Additional information about the position can be obtained from Luc Boerboom (e-mail: l.g.j.boerboom@utwente.nl). If you would like to know more about the Ingenuity programme, you can contact Lisa Timmerman (e-mail: l.timmerman@utwente.nl). You are also invited to visit the ITC homepage.
Please submit your application before 15 August 2022 (choose “apply here” below). Your application has to include i) a motivation letter how you meet the selection criteria and ii) a detailed CV. Job interview will be held in the first half of September 2022.
The University of Twente wants to be an organisation that optimally deploys diversity, talents and capabilities in the labour market for now and the future. In the framework of our diversity and inclusiveness policy, we strongly stimulate people with a (work) disability to apply for this position.
In accordance with international law, only applicants holding the nationality of a member state of the EU/EEA or Switzerland could be employed in this support (non-academic) position.
About the department
The faculty or Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) educates students to be professionals, capable of acquiring knowledge and translating this into practical applications for solving real-world problems. Our mission is to develop capacity, particularly in less developed countries, and to utilize geospatial solutions to deal with national and global problems. Our vision is that spatial solutions will play an increasingly important role in meeting many of the complex challenges (often wicked problems), such as climate change, population growth, and related claims for sufficient and secure food, water, energy, health, land and housing provision.
About the organization
The Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) provides international postgraduate education, research and project services in the field of geo-information science and earth observation. Our mission is capacity development, where we apply, share and facilitate the effective use of geo-information and earth observation knowledge and tools for tackling global wicked problems. Our purpose is to enable our many partners around the world to track and trace the impact – and the shifting causes and frontiers – of today’s global challenges. Our vision is of a world in which researchers, educators, and students collaborate across disciplinary and geographic divides with governmental and non-governmental organisations, institutes, businesses, and local populations to surmount today’s complex global challenges and to contribute to sustainable, fair, and digital societies.
