Carbon Forest Specialist Jobs

Responsibilities :

• Responsible for raster data management.
• Help process forest carbon accounting methodologies.
• Support in developing presentation and briefs with topics related with to landscape monitoring, forestry, and forest legality.
• Research and knowledge sharing on specific requirements for various certification standards, carbon, and other sustainability topics.
• Build and maintain strong relationship with key stakeholders to advance the adoption and implementation of landscape monitoring project in priority districts.
• Analyze forestry & greenhouse gas (GHG) data, evaluate data quality, collect data, and review the processes.
• Prepare data for analysis and provide high quality interpretation using advanced spatial analysis and remote sensing techniques.
• Support on the data collection and develop the project report for monitoring and evaluation purposes, as well as donor reporting of the project.
• Support project activities, including monitoring, coordinating the field activities, day to day implementation of Landscape Monitoringin pilot districts (e.g. procurement of services, travel documentation, events, kick-off meeting, etc.), and collaboration with client and internal teamto ensure project deliverables fulfillment.
• Conduct spatial analysis and high quality interpretation of satellite imagery using advanced GIS tools and methodologies to produce high quality maps (i.e. land-cover/land-use change, NDVI, tree canopy, forest change, forest fire impact, carbon estimation, DTM, etc), andrelevant forest monitoring research.
• Organize and arrange GIS and remote sensing data into a spatial database system/analysis using applicable standards for reporting purposes.
• Support in producing research and communication products, in the form of modules, blogposts, journals, technical note or working paper with topics related to Indonesia to landscape monitoring, forestry, and forest legality.

Qualifications :

• Willingness to be travelin all areas of Indonesia.
• Good with numbers and data, knowledge of basic data analytics preferred.
• Willing to get the hands dirty and communicate with farmers.
• Experience in conducting engagement with local government, local CSOs, and/or private sector for the forest monitoring topic.
• Knowledge ofgreenhouse gases, climate change, and/or carbon.
• Bachelor’s degree, in forestry, geography, environmental management/science, or other related field; Master’s degree is a plus.
• 3+ years of full-time work experience on forestry or environmental issues, with work experience on mapping, and spatial data would be a plus.
• Working experience in spatial analysis using GIS software, with familiarity working with Remote Sensing data is a plus.