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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
World Agroforestry Centre – SEA Regional Office
Recruiting a LANDSCAPE HYDROLOGIST
Based in Bogor, Indonesia.
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is one of a network of 15 Future
Harvest Centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research (CGIAR). As a global leader in agroforestry research and
development, ICRAF’s ultimate purpose is to improve human welfare by
reducing poverty, increasing cash income, improving food and nutritional
security, and increasing environmental resilience through improved
agroforestry systems. ICRAF has it’s headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya and
works in 21 countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America.
In 1993, the World Agroforestry Centre opened a program for Southeast
Asia with Bogor, in Indonesia, as its regional headquarters. We
currently work in five Southeast Asian countries including Indonesia,
Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and China.
The Position
ICRAF is implementing a project on "Trees in multi-Use Landscapes in
Southeast Asia (TUL-SEA): A negotiation support toolbox for Integrated
Natural Resource Management" that aims to sharpen the tools for problem
appraisal to be used in mainstream development processes, identify
targets for academic follow-up research, involve NARS and contribute
directly to negotiated solutions for important tradeoffs. It involves
partners across SE Asia, with training courses and support of local
application of a series of appraisal tools ICRAF developed including the Rapid
Hydrological Appraisal method.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be expected to perform the following
tasks:
· Implement Rapid Hydrological Appraisals based on local, public and
modelers knowledge.
· Develop and maintain a watershed model that allows analysis of
consequences of land use change
· Develop interfaces linking existing model with spatial data.
· Contribute to capacity building for national partners in land
use and watershed management
Qualifications and Skills Required:
· Familiarity through university study and work experience with
Integrated Natural Resource Management approaches including hydrology,
agro-meteorology 3-4 years work experience
· Experience with process-based models of the
rainfall-soil-plant-atmosphere continuum
· Experience in GIS and or Spatial Analysis
· Good English communication skills: correspondence with project
partners, newsletter contributions
· Experience with and affinity for international and inter-cultural
cooperation
· Excellent capability to work under limited supervision
· Computer and internet literate
Terms of offer
This is a Nationally Professional Fixed Term position with a
competitive salary and benefits package.
The contract is for a period of one year, with possibility of renewal,
subject to assessment of performance, and availability of resources.
Applicants are invited to send a cover letter illustrating their
suitability for the above position against the listed
qualifications/competencies/skills and a detailed curriculum vitae, with names and
addresses of three referees (including telephone, fax numbers and email
address).
Applicants should indicate “Project Support Assistant/Accountant”
on their application letters and email submissions. All correspondence
should be addressed to:
Human Resources & Administration Unit, ICRAF
via email:
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Fax : (0251) 625416
This is an immediately opening position. Applications will be
considered until May 09, 2008. Only short-listed applicants meeting the
above requirements will be contacted. ICRAF believes that staff
diversity promotes excellence, and strongly encourages applications from
women. If you do not hear from us within the next 3 (three) months, please
consider your application unsuccessful. We invite you to learn more
about ICRAF by accessing our web site: http://www.worldagroforestry.org/sea
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