Agroecological Systems Analyst

Reference number: 2024010
Job status: In-progress
Job category: Local Position
Duty station: Nairobi, Kenya
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CIFOR-ICRAF
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) envision a more equitable world where trees in all landscapes, from drylands to the humid tropics, enhance the environment and well-being for all. CIFOR and ICRAF are non-profit science institutions that build and apply evidence to today’s most pressing challenges, including energy insecurity and the climate and biodiversity crises. Over a combined total of 65 years, we have built vast knowledge on forests and trees outside of forests in agricultural landscapes (agroforestry). Using a multidisciplinary approach, we seek to improve lives and to protect and restore ecosystems. Our work focuses on innovative research, partnering for impact, and engaging with stakeholders on policies and practices to benefit people and the planet. Founded in 1993 and 1978, CIFOR and ICRAF are members of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food secure future dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resources. CIFOR-ICRAF is looking for a

Agroecological Systems Analyst

Overview The agroecological systems analyst will contribute to the development, implementation and documentation of analytical and modeling frameworks that integrate biophysical, ecological, and socioeconomic domains to evaluate the impacts of agroecological interventions on livelihood systems and ecosystems. Other responsibilities will be to support the management and co-development of interactive web-based dashboards and databases.

Duties and responsibilities

1. Research Design & Data Collection:

· Support the design of research projects in agroecology with an eye to ensuring they will be able to collect high-quality data to address project goals.

· Design surveys and focus group discussion guides for data collection.

· Translate questions into digital collection tools such as ODK and Kobo Collect to emphasize question quality, data validation framework and option relevance.

· Train enumerators and team members on data collection, interviewing and note-taking for easy translation to viewable data.

· Undertake literature reviews and other desk-based data collection methods.

· Ensure data are stored in secure and ethical ways.

2. Data Analysis:

· Clean and curate data to enable analysis.

· Design data analysis frameworks that connect the available data to the expected results and formulate hypotheses.

· Conduct exploratory data analysis to uncover insights in the data that will advise the next course of analysis action.

· Analyze data to test hypotheses and create predictive models using R or Python.

· Create visualizations and graphs of the data, including using spatial tools such as QGIS.

3. Database/dashboard development:

· Contribute to the development of digital dashboards that allow stakeholders to interact with data, including:

· Farmer dashboards with personalized data collected in projects.

· Metrics dashboards/databases allowing users to develop monitoring systems using existing metrics.

· Project dashboards showing implementation progress or other metrics aimed at donors/investors.

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