The Wildlife Conservation Society
(WCS) has a distinguished history of scientists exploring and saving wildlife
in some of the most remote and wild places remaining on Earth. The Wildlife
Conservation Society Indonesia Program (WCS-IP) has significantly grown over
the last decades, and contributed substantially to the conservation of
biodiversity in Indonesia. We currently work in several landscapes in Sumatra
and Sulawesi, where we aim to protect threatened species and their habitat
through working with government agencies, civil society organisations and local
communities. In order to achieve our overall goal of saving wildlife and wild
places in Indonesia, WCS-IP includes amongst its strategic priorities
landscape-level conservation management, support to protected areas (PAs),
species conservation actions, and engaging local communities. In order to
achieve our overall goal of saving wildlife and wild places, the WCS-IP
programs are strongly supported and backed up by field activities that aim to
improve the conservation and management of the remaining ecosystems and
wildlife habitat.
The Wildlife Conservation Society – Indonesia Program
(WCS-IP) has significantly grown over the last decades, and contributed
substantially to the conservation of biodiversity in Indonesia. Within Sumatra, WCS focuses on
landscape-level conservation around Gunung Leuser National Park and Bukit
Barisan Selatan National Park, which form part of the World Heritage Site,
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra. WCS also has activities in Way Kambas
National Park. Together, these three sites contain the majority of the
remaining populations of Sumatran Rhino in Indonesia, and are very important
for Tiger, Elephant and Orangutans. Within Sulawesi, WCS focuses on the
landscape around Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park in north Sulawesi and
Gorontalo provinces.
In
order to strengthen our conservation programs, WCS-IP is looking for a strong
and motivated Geographic
Information System (GIS) Specialist. The GIS Specialist will be required to maintain a comprehensive
spatial database for the WCS target landscapes, and to provide technical
assistance on
GIS and remote-sensing across the program, and undertake spatial analyses, such
as monitoring land-use change. The work will provide support to both field
interventions as well as on policy development. The GIS Specialist will lead
WCS-IP collection, storage, analysis, mapping, imaging, and communication of
geospatial information.
The position will be based in
Bogor, with regular trips to the field to provide direct technical advice, monitoring
and capacity building of field staff. The GIS Specialist will work under the
general supervision of the Sumatra Program Manager, as well as work closely
together with other colleagues in the office as a team, including the Sulawesi
program. The GIS Specialist will be supported by field staff based in Medan and
Lampung.
Details vacant position as follows:
Position: Geographic Information System ( GIS ) Specialist
Based
in : Bogor Office
Contract period: 1
year with possibility of an extension
For more information about the vacant position
and Wildlife Conservation Society – Indonesia Program in details, please visit
our website at HERE
