Responsibilities
Project
Management
- Serve as the lead data collection project
manager for Conservation International’s impact metrics system. You will
lead a cross-divisional team and ensure coordinated collaboration. This
includes working with global staff and partners to collect spatial datasets
by providing clear instructions and guidance to data providers; managing
timelines; and providing support and feedback to ensure high-quality,
standardized, and on-time data submissions that enable institutional-wide
impact analysis.
- Manage program communications across CI:
Champion the impact data program and communicate vision across divisions;
communicate regularly during data collection with country programs,
partners, and other analysis team members to focus the team on clear needs,
requirements, and timelines; develop training and capacity building
support that will include conducting instructional webinars or seminars
and providing daily guidance and support to non-technical staff.
- Ensure quality data results, by serving
as the data analysis project manager for Conservation International’s
impact metrics system. This includes coordinating Moore Center scientists
and IT staff by managing timelines and expectations for collection, cleaning,
analysis, reporting, and final deliverables.
Data Collection, Analysis and Capacity Building
- Run spatial data processing and analysis
in ArcGIS and Google Earth Engine: data review, quality control,
synthesis, and cleaning (e.g. ability to create/digitize shapefiles,
correct geometries, test topography, join spatial and tabular files and
work in both geodatabase and shapefiles formats).
- Run analysis using AWS Batch, Python, and
R with Moore Center guidance.
- Generate statistics summarizing impact
metrics within or across country programs and serve as a GIS lead,
responding to requests from upper-level management, country programs, and
other divisions.
- Produce and Visualize data, information,
maps, and related information to make data informative and useful to a
non-technical audience using tools like PowerBI. Summarize analysis and
document findings in graphs, reports, presentations, factsheets, and other
communication mediums.
- Manage spatial and nonspatial database,
including through the use of spreadsheets, relational databases, and GIS
databases.
- Serve as a GIS resource for Conservation
International’s programs and including building GIS skills and capacity
among staff who lack experience, by developing and conducting trainings
and providing direct support; help internal and external partners manage
and use GIS information and tools to accomplish program objectives and
provide timely analysis of impact data to inform conservation work.
Implement additional strategies to increase capacity.
- Develop tools, standard operating
procedures, and other resources to guide staff and partners who submit
data.
Problem Solving and Systems
Thinking
- Identify findings and insights that
inform CI’s conservation work, internal management decision-making,
strategy, and planning efforts – through data synthesis and by
understanding key institutional data uses and decision points.
- Support the organization in connecting
existing metrics and deliverable systems for alignment and reporting
purposes.
- Help enhance the system and ensure
connection among institutional datasets by anticipating future uses and
needs, understanding stakeholder requirements, determining and leading
system enhancements based on user needs, and setting a vision for the
program with leadership.
- Other related duties as assigned.
Working Conditions
- Work is performed in a typical office
environment.
- Flexibility to travel as needed.
- Ability to work irregular and extended
work hours to meet deadlines.
- Guidance on flexible work arrangements
will be shared during the interview process.
- This position may manage contractors and
vendors as needed but does not directly manage staff.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
experience in GIS, environmental geography, or related field with relevant
coursework in statistics, spatial ecology, or computer science.
- 4 to 6 years of experience in the field
of spatial data analyses, GIS, and data management.
- Experienced GIS user of Esri solutions
(for example, ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS for Desktop for data processing and
management to create/digitize shapefiles, correct geometries, test
topology, join spatial and tabular files, and work in both geodatabase and
shapefiles formats, perform spatial analyses against other datasets using
standard tools and basic Python scripts).
- Experience with Excel and PowerBI for
querying and generating reports.
- Demonstrated experience conducting
analysis in Google Earth Engine in JavaScript and/or Python.
- Experience with AWS Batch, Python, R and
database management.
- A creative problem solver with an
interest in learning and thinking outside the box; able to see the big
picture strategy and develop technical solutions to achieve large goals.
- Strong verbal and written communication
skills with the ability to translate technical data to a wide audience
with the big picture in mind
- Experience in developing and delivering
user training and user support
- A patient team player and the ability to
effectively partner and collaborate with internal and external
stakeholders, including a diverse team of people (from different cultures,
different first languages, and different types of technical and
non-technical roles)
- Ability to project manage others, lead
without authority, and manage many workstreams at once
Preferred
- Technical knowledge of conservation
science.
- Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, or
French fluency preferred.
How To Apply