Research officer I - Remote Sensing & GIS job at International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
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Research officer I - Remote Sensing & GIS

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International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, April 28 2023 

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi, East Africa

Summary
Date Posted:Friday, April 28 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works to improve food security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for better and more sustainable use of livestock. ILRI is a CGIAR research centre - part of a global research partnership for a food-secure future.

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Research officer I - Remote Sensing & GIS to apply remote sensing and GIS technology to product design part of Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI). He/she will work with the team of economist and socio-economist to integrate geospatial skills for upgradation of IBLI product using research, stakeholder and community engagements.

Key Responsibilities
• Research for Development
• Contribute to the development, testing and validation of innovative remote sensing-based methods (using multispectral remote sensing sensors) to identify pastoral and agropastoral systems.
• Evaluate, identify and characterize rangelands and its phenology.
• Evaluate the research findings, and contribute to the writing of reports, research papers and other communication material.
• Plan multiple experiments/surveys and research studies utilizing the Geographic Information System (GIS).
• Manage the data collection process for primary and secondary datasets from the field soil, water, weather and crops and grassland using appropriate devices.
• Manage the large data sets.
• Partnerships and Stakeholder engagement
• Manage existing partnerships and identify and innovative partnerships towards sharing and implementation of research findings.
• Contribute to the engagement with institutional stakeholders, including to inform about climate risk financing.
• Capacity Development and Knowledge Management
• plan, survey and coordinate the materials and resources. required to meet the research objectives of the group.
• Collect, store and curate data generated from the analytics.
• Review existing literature for scientific gaps understanding.
• Prepare project reports and papers for presentation.

Requirements
• Master’s Degree in Geospatial Science/ Geography/ Environmental Science/Agriculture/ Ecology or other related discipline with at least 4 years’ relevant work experience of application of remote sensing and GIS on agriculture/ natural resources.
• Land cover mapping, vegetation phenology, cropping system mapping, drone operations, and database management, analytics using physical (soil, water and climate) and pastoralists databases.
• Proven knowledge of field data collection for geospatial analysis.
• Has good working knowledge of remote sensing and GIS software, Database and software such as Arc GIS, ENVI and e-Cognition.
• Substantial experience in scripting such as R/ Python and Google Earth Engine.
• Experience of any of statistical analysis and logical development of models.
• Experience of working with multi spectral satellites.
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English with the ability to communicate with diverse audiences.
• Proven ability to work in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams with minimal supervision, and experience working across disciplines and different cultural backgrounds.
• Willingness to travel frequently to rural and remote areas of project sites in different countries.
• Record of publications and experience with resource mobilization and contributing to project proposals would be an asset.
• Communication skills for peer reviewed publications
• Programmming skills using R/ Python


Job Experience:No Requirements

Work Hours: 8


Level of Education:
Associate Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Public Relations jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Friday, May 05 2023
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 26-04-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 26-04-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 26-04-2066
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