IMPORTANT: This Advertiser has requested that applicants MUST be National Residents / Valid Work Permit-holders. Other applicants need not apply.
The Rapid Inventories (RI) Manager oversees the rapid inventory program, helps recruit and train Rapid Inventory scientists and the long-term director, and helps orchestrate the link between rapid inventories and follow-up conservation action. Within ECCo, the RI Manager collaborates closely with ECCo's program directors and Sr. VP, and other scientists and communicators. Internationally, the RI Manager works closely with our Latin American collaborators, from conservation and community-based organizations to local, regional, and national governments.
Job Duties
Responsibilities include:
1. Rapid Inventories:
- Assemble inventory teams (invite scientists to participate in the biological and social inventory)
- Coordinate, plan, and manage inventories with logistics coordinator and appropriate ECCo directors, beginning before the inventory and continuing throughout the time in the field, preliminary presentations of results, writing of the final report, coordinating of the final presentation, and hand-over to follow-up action team in ECCo or in the field
- Oversee budget for each inventory
- Participate as one of the scientists in the inventory (either social or biological)
2. Follow-up Action
- In coordination with ECCo directors and scientists, find ways to continue to improve the transition from the field portion of the inventory to implementation of the key conservation and management recommendations
- Collaborate in follow-up meetings and partnerships with institutions involved in the inventory, and build relationships with other institutions and organizations that participate in the meetings and action after the inventory
- Contribute to follow-up strategies in close collaboration with ECCo directors and scientists, including development of other technical documents that support the creation or management of a protected area
- Work with Web team to post inventory as soon as possible
- Work with database coordinator to update RI databases and have useful information readily available on line
- Contribute creatively to our on-line tools and database resources
3. At the Field Museum
- Work closely with ECCo team to provide smooth transition from rapid inventory to follow-up action
- In coordination with others, recruit rapid inventory scientist(s) and train them in rapid inventory procedures and management
- In coordination with others, write grant proposals as needed to fund inventories
- Write summaries of inventory findings to popular audiences
- Help prepare presentations to Board of Trustees
Qualifications
- PhD in conservation-related field, tropical scientist (biologist, ecologist, anthropologist) with more than 5 years direct work experience with conservation issues in Latin America
- Superb written and spoken Spanish and English skills
- Excellent leadership and coordination abilities
- Exceptional communication skills
The successful candidate will be a strategic thinker and expert team builder with strong leadership skills; ease and agility in diverse social situations; facility working with local scientists and heads of institutions; superb listening and consensus-building skills; and deep commitment to conservation.
The Field Museum accepts applications on-line. To apply for this position, please complete the on-line application.
No phone calls please.
The Field Museum is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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