March 6th, 2023 at 01:15 am
Job Vacancy at World Resource Institute
Job title: GIS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE GHANA
About the Program:
The Global Restoration Initiative of the World Resources Institute (WRI) works to inspire, enable, and carry out restoration on degraded landscapes, bringing them back to economic and environmental productivity. WRI and its partners have found more than 700 million hectares of cleared and degraded forest and farmland in Africa that could be restored.
Using this information as a starting point, we work to help turn degraded lands back into natural forests, agroforestry systems, or land that can be used for farming. The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), which is part of WRI’s work to restore forests in Africa, is a big part of this.
Job Highlight:
In this job, you will come up with new ideas and help with research and implementation of monitoring efforts for tree-based forest and landscape restoration. This includes helping with research and analysis of remote sensing products using GIS software and/or Python to answer important questions in the restoration monitoring domain.
Your work will help important international efforts by the private sector, governments, and non-profits to develop and standardize a science-based way to track the restoration of forests and landscapes in Ghana and across AFR100 countries.
You will be helped by WRI Africa colleagues in Kenya and Rwanda, WRI Global colleagues in Washington, DC, and Europe, and Ghana country partners in the EPA, District Assemblies, Forestry Commission, and Land Use and Spatial Planning Authority.
What will you do:
Technical Assistance and Coordination (80%):
- Using tools like remote sensing and GIS, help make geospatial products like datasets, maps, and statistical insights.
- Using data from remote sensing, make and track landscape-scale monitoring indicators to track changes in plantation and non-plantation tree cover in priority landscapes.
- Do research and statistical analysis on large-scale restoration projects, using data from remote sensing and data collected in the field.
- Do desk research to make sure that data trends and outputs are correct.
- Use both manual and automated methods to check if data products are complete and correct.
- Give technical help to set up online data collection and sharing systems that the government of Ghana will use and keep up to date for monitoring and evaluation.
- Build partnerships and strong relationships with country technical focal points and/or task forces to find and co-create monitoring solutions that fill in gaps and can be used throughout the region.
- Help write things like peer-reviewed articles, technical notes, and presentations
- Answer technical questions from partner organizations about the data products they sell.
Knowledge Sharing and Awareness Raising (15%):
- Co-design and lead FLR monitoring trainings and materials for partners, including data collection and management and new tools and methods.
- Answer technical questions from partner organizations about the data products they sell.
- Co-create technical documents and protocols for project management as needed.
- Help private-sector, government, and non-profit partner organizations reach out and talk about specific data.
- Share lessons across WRI teams in the region and the AFR100 Initiative to move monitoring goals forward and adapt new data or methods to local contexts in ways that raise awareness of norms, cultures, and histories and follow responsible data sharing practices.
Administration (5%):
- Help with the running of the WRI (e.g., project planning, budget reviews, donor reporting, coordination across WRI offices)
- Together with other WRI employees, fill out administrative paperwork related to contracts, sub-agreements, payments to vendors, etc.
What you’ll need:
- You have a Bachelor’s degree in GIS, remote sensing, or a similar field in data science.
- Experience: You have worked in remote sensing full-time for at least 5 years in a relevant field. We want you to have worked with outside vendors before.
- You know how to use tools and software for geospatial monitoring.
- You have worked with remote sensing tools outside of the classroom, including with big remote sensing datasets.
- You have worked with a wide range of partners at different levels (government, donors, private sector, NGOs and local community-based organizations)
- You have worked on your own and as part of a team with people from different cultures
How to Apply for this Job Vacancy at World Resource Institute
Closing Date: 12th March 2023
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