Closing date: 2022-04-26
Position: Spatial Analyst
Organization: The Nature Conservancy
Country: United States
State: District of Columbia
Contact: Valerie McNulty
Contact Email: valerie.mcnulty@tnc.org
Description
The Spatial Analyst provides geospatial data management, collection, and analysis support to conservation initiatives throughout the Caribbean Division. This includes regularly updating ecological and socioeconomic datasets, facilitating data-sharing and dissemination, synthesizing monitoring and evaluation data on conservation successes, providing analysis and cartography support to conservation projects, and creating and maintaining web maps, tools, and sites.
The Spatial Analyst is responsible for managing data and tools for the Caribbean Division of The Nature Conservancy. They maintain metadata, organize file names, maintain data agreements and disclaimers, manage GIS licenses, design Excel spreadsheets, and perform GIS analyses as related to conservation initiatives and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) efforts. They design and perform complex queries and data analyses, write professional and technical reports, and process spatial and other relational data sets derived from cartographic and tabular source material. They will maintain key ecological, socioeconomic, political, and modelled datasets for the region and update them regularly based on stakeholder feedback and/or updated data sources. They will help build GIS capacity with our staff and partners through targeted trainings. They will create and maintain our suite of online tools including StoryMaps, ArcGIS Online resources, and Google Earth Engine apps. The Spatial Analyst will join the Caribbean Science Team in providing sound science and useful decision support tools to conservation initiatives throughout the region to partners and across the Conservancy.
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About Organization
Since 1951, The Nature Conservancy has been doing work you can believe in protecting the lands and waters that all life depends on. Through grassroots action, TNC has grown to become one of the most effective and wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world working in more than 75 countries and territories. As a science-based organization, we create innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world’s toughest challenges so that we can create a world in which people and nature thrive.
We’re rooted in our Mission and guided by our Values, which includes a Commitment to Diversity and Respect for People, Communities, and Cultures. Whether it’s career development, flexible schedules, or a rewarding mission, there’s lots of reasons to love life #insideTNC. Want a better insight to TNC? Check out our TNC Talent playlist on YouTube and profile on Glassdoor.
Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive work environment so that all our colleagues around the globe feel a sense of belonging, and that their unique contributions to our mission are valued. We’ll only achieve our Mission by hiring and engaging a diverse workforce that reflects the communities in which we work. In addition to the requirements in our postings, we recognize that people come with talent and experiences outside of a job. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and a culture of inclusion! Please apply – we’d love to hear from you.