Avis à manifestation d’intérêt : Alliance Bioversity & CIAt recrute un Associé de recherche à Montpelier en France.
About the position
Based in Montpellier, France, and reporting to the Scientist of the Multifunctional Landscapes lever, the Research Associate will support multi-disciplinary research projects, teams, and activities, working to co-develop and implement pathways to sustainable food systems. The position is well-suited to a motivated graduate with excellent data analysis skills, a curious, positive, and collaborative attitude, and a strong interest in sustainability issues at the food-biodiversity-climate nexus.
Key responsibilities
The Research Associate will be responsible for providing research assistance to the Agrobiodiversity Index (50%) and Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) (50%) projects through performing the following duties:
- Contribute to high quality scientific outputs that help governments and companies understand how to achieve sustainable, climate-resilient food systems.
- Contribute to the Agrobiodiversity Index, participating directly in the methodological advances, outreach, and collaborations needed to implement the project activities in different countries with a focus on WP1 (agrobiodiversity tracker).
- Support a review to identify biodiversity-friendly and climate-resilient practices in cocoa, coffee, and banana supply chains in three focal countries (Dominican Republic, Mexico, Guatemala).
- Support the Alliance contributions to the FABLE secretariat, improving the integration of agroecological practices and biodiversity conservation into national food system pathways via decision-support tools and dialogues.
- Support new and existing FABLE country teams, including in Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Mexico, to use the FABLE Calculator to develop food and land use pathways inclusive of agroecology, by providing training and technical support.
- Contribute to other multi-disciplinary research projects on use and conservation of biodiversity in healthy, sustainable, and just food systems.
- Contribute to scientific papers.
- Contribute to the conceptualization, planning and writing of funding proposals that consolidate and expand the Alliance’s work on sustainable food system transitions.
- Represent the Multifunctional Landscape team at scientific, science-policy, and private-sector events and forums, providing scientifically sound and timely inputs.
- Perform other related duties as required.
Requirements
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree is desired) in geography, agronomy, ecology, food systems, or related disciplines, with a strong focus on systems approaches.
- Relevant experience in the field (preferably minimum of 2 years).
- Experience working on international, multi-disciplinary research projects.
- Experience applying multi-objective food and land use system models, such as the FABLE Calculator, InVEST, Co$tingNature or similar.
- Experience with statistical analysis using R or another statistical package.
- Experience or interest in learning spatial data processing and analysis using ArcGIS, QGIS, R or another cartographic package.
- Experience designing, implementing, and analyzing data using qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.
- Experience with systematic literature reviews and other literature-based data collection.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to contribute to a positive, collaborative team spirit in a transdisciplinary and multi-cultural team.
- Excellent organization, priority setting and problem-solving skills.
- Conscientious with high attention to detail.
- Willingness to travel occasionally (up to 6 weeks per year) to support project activities.
- Excellent command of the English and French languages, both written and spoken.
Closing date for applications: 20 October 2023