The Amazon Science Coordinator provides leadership, technical expertise and general guidance to advance conservation priority-setting, strategy development, and measuring conservation progress for the Conservancy’s Amazon Conservation Program. Current strategies are conservation in private lands (sustainable harvest), conservation in indigenous lands and forests and climate (REDD and climate adaptation). The Conservancy’s Amazon program includes the Amazon Basin portion of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
Provides guidance and assists Amazon Conservation Program in implementation of the Conservancy’s overarching conservation approach strategy “Conservation by Design.” Helps to identify priority ecoregions where Conservancy programs should focus conservation efforts. Produces and analyzes conservation portfolios to guide strategic programmatic priorities. Uses standard Conservancy methodologies to help in the development of conservation strategies at multiple scales. Provides guidance and assists in conducting measuring progress and making suggestions for adaptive management of the program biodiversity conservation projects Provides ongoing tracking of biodiversity viability, management capacity and threats status across portfolios, participates in conservation actions where scientific expertise makes it appropriate, assists in working with government agencies on conservation planning issues. Builds partnerships with appropriate institutions to gather information as required, and to export methods and products to other institutions and agencies. Coordinates the development of threat assessments, threat forecasting, and approaches for understanding conservation at multiple scales. Collaborates with Conservancy scientists and other private and public sector scientists and scientific institutions to bring the best available science information and practices to enhance the conservation practices of the Conservancy. Provides technical input to fundraising proposals and may help in presentations as required.
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