Organization: District of Oak Bay
Location: Victoria
Funding: Yes
Onsite: Yes – 1 day/week

The Oak Bay Emergency Program and the Municipality of Oak Bay would like to develop its GIS capacity in order to respond effectively to various hazards.

Identifying who is most at risk during an emergency and where these individuals reside will assist communities and emergency management organizations to reduce risk and prioritize responses.

There are three main components to the project

- Develop a number of spatial layers relevant to emergency planning. These include structures such as schools, care facilities and community halls, basic background layers such as terrain and transportation features, and existing hazard information such as tsunami or earthquake amplification zones.
- Using existing socio‑economic data (e.g., census), determine where high densities of seniors and potentially vulnerable populations reside.
- Assess the level of preparedness of a total of 10 identified seniors facilities and potentially high‑risk sites. This will involve integrating the results of a survey and creating an attributed spatial layer for these 10 sites.

Depending on time and interest, the student could become a part of the Outreach Team who goes to the seniors' facilities to engage management, staff and residents.





Funding

The Seniors Mitigation & Preparedness Project- provincial grant (1,500.00) and the Oak Bay Emergency Program (1,500.00) are able to offer a student a combined paid and volunteer work experience for the winter term.

- 113.5 hours at 23.40/hour plus 13% in lieu of benefits (26.44/hour)
- 3-month period between mid-January-end April 2010
- 1 day/week in the Engineering Department, Oak Bay Municipal Hall
- Support from the GIS specialist

Volunteering

The successful applicant will work an equivalent number of hours (up to 111.5 hours) with the Oak Bay Emergency Managers and the Project Team to met the objectives of the GIS Project component as well as the overall GIS Program needs.

The successful applicant must be

- Knowledgeable and have experience in using ARC GIS 8.3
- Able to access a computer to download ARC Reader
- Able to work independently and work as part of a team
- Willing to learn about emergency management goals and priorities
- Able to commit to a regular daytime work schedule (Municipality)

Assets

- Have access to their own laptop
- Able to work flexible schedule (volunteer)

The Corporation of the District of Oak Bay EMERGENCY PROGRAM

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