Science And Data Specialist Great Plains Program

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, seeks a Science Specialist to support the achievement of our Great Plains Program goals.  This position will be responsible for coordinating a new 2-year project demonstrating landscape scale conservation across 40 million acres in southeast Montana in collaboration with NGOs, landowner-led collaboratives, government agencies, and Native Nations. The Science Specialist will lead engagement with partners in the region to generate support for a shared conservation vision and measuring progress toward it. This will include data collection, analysis, and management to examine the impact conservation efforts have on people and nature of the region. The Great Plains Program consists of three main areas of focus, the Great Plains Wildlife Initiative, the Sustainable Ranching Initiative, and the Science Program.  The Science Specialist will report to the Science Program and support the other two initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Interpersonal Communication and Collaboration – Outstanding written and verbal communication skills are required, including effective and comfortability speaking in group and one-on-one settings with the ability to communicate the value of landscape scale conservation and collaboration.
• Solution-Oriented, Strategic Collaboration – Background in community-based engagement coordinating/organizing/motivating a group of people toward a common goal is essential, in this case toward a common goal of sharing data among grassland conservationists.
• Initiative – Uses judgment to make decisions and do things without needing to be told what to do
• Analytical Thinking – Does the candidate display a proclivity towards proactive thinking and creative, outside the box thinking?

Required Skills and Experience:

• Coordinate with conservation NGOs, government agencies, landowners, managers, and other entities focused on grassland habitat and wildlife conservation.
• Manages and coordinates ecological and socioeconomic data collection and consolidation from Great Plains Program projects, with partner organizations, and from publicly available data sources and inputs data into a central data platform.
• Drafts, reviews and edits written program materials communicating progress to partners and funders.
• Aids in development of annual meeting with partners including developing agendas and coordinating logistics.
• Serves as the main point of contact with other WWF initiatives (Food and Markets, Freshwater, Wildlife) to ensure internal coordination.
• Co-manages interns as needed to ensure active learning and support functions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• 4 to 6 years professional experience or 2+ years with an advanced degree in natural resource management, conservation, or landscape or regional planning.
• An understanding of how nature loss and climate change are impacting people, nature, and economies and how grassland conservation is a critical component of the solution.
• MUST HAVE experience working in rural communities OR with agriculture communities.
• MUST HAVE strong Data management / organization background – able to synthesis and analysis data

Source: https://careers-wwfus.icims.com/jobs/3831/science-and-data-specialist,-great-plains-program—25042/job?mobile=false&width=1000&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=330&jun1offset=330