Senior GIS Officer at Rainforest Alliance

4 weeks ago

Nairobi, Kenya Rainforest Alliance Full time

The Rainforest Alliance is a growing network of people who are inspired and committed to working together to achieve our mission of conserving biodiversity and ensuring sustainable livelihoods. Through creative, pragmatic collaboration, we aim to rebalance the planet by building strong forests and healthy communities around the world

Position Summary:
To achieve our vision requires the smart use of technology to deliver capability and capacity at both scale and pace, so that we can do the most good. We are therefore looking for an experienced Senior GIS Officer to lead all aspects of the development both GIS operations and R&D activities in our organization.

Reporting to the GIS Manager, you will be responsible for identifying and leading new GIS research and development opportunities which are aligned to our organizational 2030 sustainability vision. As required, this will involve working with GIS organizations, educational institutions, government bodies and other NGO’s; to ascertain their GIS technological and organizational requirements. Then as appropriate, with the GIS Manager, develop opportunities and solutions that are aligned with our organization's objectives.

To be successful as the Senior GIS Officer, you should have an excellent technical proficiency, as well as superior GIS technology skills working in a distributed multicultural environment. You will need to demonstrate current knowledge of developments in different fields of remote sensing and hyperspectral satellite data analytics.
Role Responsibilities:

Lead the management and execution of significant research initiatives in Remote Sensing and GIS, targeting, undertaking educational initiatives a major plus
Develop GIS models of increasing sophistication using AI / ML to address critical environmental challenges, including but not limited to water quality, forest monitoring, landcover/land use, soil, and climate impact assessments with actionable results
Work with RA, government and other NGOs as required to ensure GIS projects are aligned with RA, EU and UN global sustainability goals, experience with developing and writing program strategies, grant applications, or budget proposals is therefore essential
Integrated cutting-edge methodologies to enhance environmental research accuracy and relevance.
As appropriate undertake and or direct fieldwork data collection and analysis to support GIS model development
As directed, work with educational programs and institutes to develop GIS related environmental programs, and training material in GIS and RS techniques
Ensure a culture of design excellence, maturity, quality, collaboration, planning, and responsiveness in the engineering teams
Communicating to a wide range of senior stakeholders, including other technology and data departments, aligning them to the GIS delivery roadmap and strategy.

Role Requirements:

Master’s degree in Geographic Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field; a PhD preferred.
Proven minimal of 10 years’ experience in leading GIS development and operations
At least 5 years of management experience in an international GIS environment, developing and leading innovative projects in geospatial data analysis, ideally with significant contributions to climate change forestry monitoring, or water management.
Experienced people manager with a proven ability to coach, supervise and motivate staff, ideally through continuous transformation
Experience in remote sensing software such as ENVI, SNAP, and ERDAS.
GIS Platform skills e.g. familiarity with using ArcGIS and QGIS.
Programming & Data Analysis knowledge, e.g. experience in MATLAB, Python, R, SQL.
Excellent English interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills, including ability to present ideas in a user-friendly non-technical language
Strong Analytical and Spatial statistics skills

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