Conservation International,
an international non-governmental organization, is seeking applicants for
senior level technical manager position to be based in Jakarta.
SLP CONSERVATION SCIENCE SPECIALIST
The Sustainable Landscapes
Partnership (SLP) program will establish a replicable model of public-private
partnerships that foster low carbon development opportunities, thereby helping
to address global climate change and contribute to economic growth. The SLP will combine public (USAID) and
private philanthropic (Walton Family Foundation) funding into an initial $20
million facility focused on catalyzing low carbon private sector investment in
specific landscapes of high conservation value in Indonesia over a five-year
period. The Conservation Science Specialist will work to ensure that
natural capital and ecosystem services are appropriately valued and
incorporated into economic and land/sea use decisions. A key focus for the successful candidate will
be the Sustainable Landscape Partnership. This position will contribute to Green Economies through applied
research on spatially explicit analysis of business as usual vs. conservation
based land/sea use with the associated assessment of tradeoffs and opportunity
costs to inform land/seascape decision making. The SLP Conservation Science Specialist is expected to collaborate with
a multi-disciplinary team of scientists responsible for ‘landscape profiles’
(SIAP) that will guide our investment recommendations as part of the
Sustainable Landscapes Partnership (SLP).
Delivering this work relies on a range of raster GIS
competencies including remote sensing monitoring, multi-criteria analysis,
scenarios modeling, and spatial database management. The analyst is further expected to foster a
multi-stakeholder process of decision-making using these data. The position
will collaborate closely with the SLP team (and other CI-I programs) to
specifically focus on conducting spatial analysis in order to support
conservation and development planning in specific program areas as a basis to
support stakeholder decision-making.
Responsibilities:
Internal SLP Needs:Prepare, manage and produce spatial data and
information systems for SLP project needs as well as other work by Conservation
Science Unit, CI Indonesia.
· Employ spatially explicit and replicable systems
for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting environmental and economic data for
the profile and planning of sustainable landscapes and green economies with a
specific focus on SLP;
· Analyze tradeoffs using multi-criteria analysis and
other tools;
· Prepare, analyze and provide high quality
interpretation utilizing different methods and systems to produce outputs to
support SLP interventions as a part of the SIAP and beyond;
· Ensure that the methods utilized are valid, well
benchmarked and internationally accepted and defensible;
· Ensure that there is close coordination and
cooperation between SLP technical thematic areas as well as monitoring and
evaluation staff;
· Provide capacity building to both internal and
external stakeholders as directed and that will promote sustainability;
· Manage and supervise the sub-contract work if
necessary and ensure close coordination with the SLP grants manager.
Assist the SLP and Conservation Science
Unit at CI Indonesia to assist in the development of concepts, strategies and
materials and providing training related to GIS, remote sensing and mapping:
· Produce scenarios of alternative development
utilizing Land Change Modeler and other tools as directed;
· Produce spatially explicit recommendations for key
decision makers for site level investment under the SLP mechanism and
disseminate analytical results through technical reports, scientific journals,
oral presentations, etc.
· As required provide training and capacity building
to SLP and CI-I stakeholders;
· Ensure close coordination between technical and
M&E colleagues.
Develop,
maintain and update the spatial information database system within Conservation
Science Unit, CI Indonesia.
· Develop a spatial database system for digital and hardcopy
datasets.
· Maintain and update the database in regular basis.
· Assist SLP and CI-I field personnel in the creation
of spatial database system as required by the field projects.
· Provide standard operation procedures (SOP) and
provide training to field staffs on spatial database maintenances.
Qualifications:
· S2
(MSc) or (BSc) with relevant experience on conservation, spatial land use
planning, natural resources management, environmental economics or
environmental planning relevant to conservation and development issues
· At
least 4 years work experience in the use of GIS/RS with advanced proficiency in
data collection, compilation, analysis and innovation in the designing and
developing of concepts, applications, and technologies
· Expert
user of spatial software and conservation planning tools (i.e. IDRISI, ArcGIS,
ERDAS Imagine, Marxan), including both vector and raster formats and spatial
analysis methods. Experienced in
cartography and map presentation design.
· Demonstrated
of environmental economics and how this is related to spatial planning and
natural resource management.
· Good
networking skills and knowledge on international and national NGOs in
Indonesia.
· Excellent
communication skills both in English and Bahasa Indonesia (reading, writing,
oral and presentation).
· Experience
with working in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams, field surveys and
ground checking for at least two years.
· Ability
to delivering presentations; interpreting and presenting information to suit
the target audience
· Ability
to work with a variety of stakeholders from local and national governments to
the private sector
· The
preferred candidate will be self-motivated, well organized, team-oriented and
able to meet project deadlines often under difficult circumstances.
Preferred
· Previous work
experience with a conservation NGO
· Demonstrated
ability of working effectively with multicultural, multidisciplinary teams to
produce results
· Experience with
building capacity building in technical applications of land use assessment and
planning
· The
preferred candidate will be self-motivated, team-oriented and able to meet
project deadlines often under difficult circumstances.
Interested candidates should send a current
resume and cover letter addressing the required skills and capabilities (no
more than 4 pages) to:
hrd@conservation.or.id
Closing date for the application is 25 May 2013
(Only short-listed candidates will be notified).
For more information about CI, please visit
our web:
www.conservation.or.id http://www.conservation.org
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