• Provide GIS support for ecosystem service monitoring and assessment using remote sensing, land use classifications and other spatial data resources
  
• Develop ecosystem service models using ESRI or open source software
  
• Compile, maintain, and distribute spatial data
  
• Contribute to report document writing
  
• Participate in discussions and presentations within the corporate partnership team and with partners and external stakeholders.
  
• Integrate/log spatial data (e.g. GPS, field observations, aerial photographs, survey data, etc) obtained from field programmes into the GIS
  
• Compile, maintain, and distribute spatial data to relevant projects on request
  
• Provide information to users and answer questions within formal and non-formal meetings
  
• Participate in project-specific GIS needs assessments
  
• Create GIS based presentations of programme outcomes and organisational achievements
  
• Liaise with the Communications team to develop web-based GIS applications to support external communication goals.
  
• Software license management and hardware management
  
• Contribute to the training of others in methodologies, standards and tools
  
• Assist in the procurement of new spatial projects and collaborations
  
• Support the GIS Coordinator in the achievement and deliverance of spatial development goals across FFI.
  

• Demonstrable command of appropriate ESRI
  
• ArcGIS (v10x) and relevant extensions, including spatial analyst
  
• Proven GIS data acquisition and management skills
  
• Competence in spatial decision support tools and analysis software packages
  
• Competence in other computer applications, including MS Office; with experience in software such as Google Earth
  
• Fluency in English
  
• Good report writing skills
  
• Strong communication skills, to both technical and non-technical audiences
  
• Networking and collaborating skills.
  
• Experienced and inventive with mathematical and statistical spatial analyses in landscape ecology and ecosystem service modelling
  
• Advanced programming skills
  
• Competence in remote sensing software
  
• Grant application writing.
  
• Graduate or post-graduate qualifications in GIS, or alternatively qualifications in applied GIS with a degree in life sciences, environmental studies or other relevant subject.
  
• At least two years’ relevant experience in GIS modelling and spatial analysis, preferably for conservation and/or land management purposes 
  
• Understanding of spatial systematic conservation planning
  
• Familiarity with general environmental, ecological and biological processes.
  
• Experience in remote sensing for conservation is highly desirable
  
• Knowledge of biodiversity offsetting.
  
• Good understanding of international conservation and of the NGO sector.

Interested Candidates May Send their Resume at:  gisrecruitment@fauna-flora.org