Winrock International is hiring a
Technical Consultant

Summary

Join our team as a REDD+ Technical Specialist - Consultant in the Ecosystem Services Unit (ECO) within the Environment & Energy Group (E2). As a technical officer, you will contribute to proposals and business development efforts across ECO team projects in the areas of GHG measurement and monitoring, climate change mitigation and adaptation, climate risk analysis, and ecosystem evaluation. This position will interact with clients, conduct qualitative technical analyses, perform quantitative problem-solving, and collect and analyze quantitative data.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in international development or environment-related field required
• Graduate level degree in environmental sciences, forestry, natural resource management, ecology, geography, or a related discipline is strongly preferred
• Minimum 3-4 years of relevant experience using GIS and remote sensing for GHG accounting and land use mapping required
• Extensive knowledge and proficiency with GIS software (ArcGIS and QGIS)
• Experience with forest inventories, biomass data collection and field data collection
• Experience with geostatistical and inferential statistical techniques in a natural resource management context
• Experience with Google Earth Engine (JavaScript and/or Python) is strongly preferred
• Demonstrated knowledge of statistics and modeling (including machine learning)
• Proficiency in R/Python for data management and analysis or other relevant platforms
• Demonstrated experience supporting complex projects. Ability to contribute to project operations and workflow effectively and to track and meet deadlines for multiple tasks

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the GHG measurement and monitoring in forest systems
• Support with carbon accounting and credit yield estimation for REDD+ projects
• Conduct innovative approaches and rigorous analyses and employ analytical methods and interpretations of international policy relevant to the work of ECO, particularly REDD+
• Implement statistically sound approaches to project design and data analysis for carbon, including use of field data, new statistical tools, and models
• Prepare technical analysis reports, presentations, and other communication materials related to carbon accounting, translating technical topics into terms that are meaningful to more diverse audiences
• Provide training to counterparts/stakeholders in the use of methods and internationally accepted best practices
• Contribute to the development of database management systems
• Support statistical analyses including Monte Carlo simulations for uncertainty estimations