Spatial Planning Specialist

Research Activity Implementation

• Work closely with a team of remote sensing, Geographic Information System (GIS), natural resource tool developer, modeler and social scientists in conceptualization, designing and conducting studies on green growth, climate change mitigation and adaptation policies and inclusive, integrated and informed land use planning for multiple environmental services such as carbon storage, watershed protection, biodiversity maintenance.
• Implement appropriate tools for land use planning for multiple environmental services, including trade-off analysis.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team in producing, preparing and analyzing high-quality spatial and socio-economic data necessary to inform land use planning for multiple environmental services.
• Contribute to development of tools, concepts, analysis, and lessons learnt from the study, and to technical project report writing.
• Collect, compile, and conduct data cleaning for spatial and non-spatial data in connection with the land use planning process at the provincial and district levels through interviews, FGDs, workshops, and other activities.
• Facilitate collaboration with the local government and local stakeholders in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the local land use planning process.
• Engage with government and non-government at the province and district levels on many topics, including RTRW, RPJM, KPLS, RPPLH, Social Forestry, Green Growth, TOR, and other RAD GRK, RAD AP, SDG, and other local development initiatives.

Capacity Strengthening and Engagement

• Continuously develop, review, and update capacity-strengthening materials for land use planning and sustainable landscape management to ensure they remain relevant, technically sound, and responsive to evolving programmatic needs.
• Lead knowledge management components of capacity strengthening for land use planning and sustainable landscape management: document lessons learned, collect promising practices, and maintain knowledge products for use across research projects.
• Provide technical leadership and operational support in the conceptualization, design, and implementation of capacity strengthening initiatives for partners and relevant stakeholders
• Collaborate with technical teams and external parties to ensure quality, relevance, and innovation in training materials and delivery formats.
• Design and deliver external training sessions, technical workshops, peer learning events, conferences, roundtable, and study visits for national and local stakeholders, including public institutions and civil society.

Project Coordination and Resource Mobilization

• Lead bilateral projects and ensure proper project resources management (staff, assets, financial resources) to achieve project.
• Deliverables (goals and objectives) as per funding agreement and approved project proposal.
• Timely project deliverables (trainings, synthesis, tools, publications) and reporting as mandated by donor/s or ICRAF governance.
• Ensure proper implementation of research ethics, partnership management, project research data management.
• Adequate publication and dissemination develop project communication strategy internsand dissemination of program outcomes, also corporate communication whenever needed, e.g. technical content for public awareness or web information.
• Lead the junior scientists in Research Theme 1-Sustainable Landscape in performing relevant knowledge transfer or technical assistance in relation to geospatial data processing and analysis within his/her work domain, e.g., to intern, students, and external collaborators.
• Contribute to technical proposal development.
• Maintain the networking with a wide range of stakeholder interests, representing the center in meetings, seminars, and other events at national and global levels.