The
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has a distinguished history of
scientists exploring and saving wildlife in some of the most remote and
wild places remaining on Earth. The Wildlife Conservation Society
Indonesia Program (WCS-IP) has significantly grown over the last
decades, and contributed substantially to the conservation of
biodiversity in Indonesia.
WCS-IP
Terrestrial Program currently work in several landscapes in Sumatra and
Sulawesi, Rote Island and Mesangat (East Kalimantan) where we aim to
protect threatened species and their habitat through working with
government agencies, civil society organisations and local communities.
In order to achieve our overall goal of saving wildlife and wild places
in Indonesia, WCS-IP includes amongst its strategic priorities
landscape-level conservation management, support to protected areas
(PAs), species conservation actions, and engaging local communities. In
order to achieve our overall goal of saving wildlife and wild places,
the WCS-IP programs are strongly supported and backed up by field
activities that aim to improve the conservation and management of the
remaining ecosystems and wildlife habitat.
WCS
is now seeking a GIS Officer who is dynamic, well-organized,
hard-working, and committed team player to provide key technical support
to the WCS’s conservation programs. The GIS Officer will be required to
maintain a comprehensive spatial database for the WCS target
landscapes, and to provide technical assistance on GIS, and limited
assistance on remote-sensing, across the program, and support spatial
analyses, such as monitoring land-use change. The GIS Officer will be a
part of Conservation Evidence Unit (CEU) and will support in the
collection, storage, analysis, mapping, imaging, and communication of
geospatial information.The position will be based in Bogor, with regular
trips to the field to provide direct technical advice, monitoring and
capacity building of field staff.
Position: GIS Officer
Based in: Bogor
Reports to: Conservation Evidence Unit Junior Coordinator
For
more detailed information about Wildlife Conservation Society –
Indonesia Program, the position and how to apply, please visit our
website at:
When you are interested on the
above position and consider that you possess the necessary
qualification, please submit your job application consisting of updated
curriculum vitae, expected salary, three professional references and a
cover letter explaining your interest towards this work and/or this
organization to wcsindonesia@wcs.org.
Please fill the “subject” column of the e-mails in this format "GIS Officer_(name of candidate)"
Deadline:
October 16th, 2019
No correspondence, only short-listed candidates will be notified
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