Gis Officer

**OFFICE LOCATION**:
Preferred location New Delhi (we are open to anywhere in India)

**WHO WE ARE**:
**ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW: A PIONEER IN CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP**

This is an exciting time at The Nature Conservancy (TNC) as we are shifting our strategy for greater impact in the world, seeking to address some of the most complex challenges facing people and nature — issues such as climate change, conserving lands, waters, and oceans at unprecedented scale, providing food and water sustainably and helping make cities more resilient and sustainable.

Nature Conservancy India Solutions Private Limited (NCIS) is one of the group entity of The Nature Conservancy (TNC). NCIS is a private limited company incorporated under the Companies Act 2013, having it registered office in India in New Delhi. India. The company currently provides technical consultancy, monitoring & evaluation, and other related services in the domain of conservation and environment to its various clients within and outside India. NCIS helps its clients in achieving their environmental and conservation targets by providing science-based solutions and technical support. NCIS has been providing services to its various clients for last three years in India.

**WHAT WE CAN ACHIEVE TOGETHER**:
GIS Officer is responsible for development, direction, and management of all geospatial and related technological activities within the India Program. The GIS officer works closely with the science and program teams on different projects and provides geospatial data and analysis support. This position is a leader on the team who helps identify and progress opportunities related to GIS, technology, and partnerships that help to leverage our conservation work.

Tenure: Two years (with an option to renew based on performance and funding availability)

The GIS officer oversees and implements GIS, technology and innovation needs of the program. This role involves coordinating the geospatial and related technological activities between internal and external sources and builds internal and external relationships. Some key functions include:

- Data Management: Lead the process of building and maintaining a spatial data and tools library for ongoing and future conservation projects.
- Integrate Geospatial program: Build and implement a shared vision across the program team to integrate geospatial and related technologies in TNC-India’s programs during all stages of a project - planning, implementation, and monitoring & evaluation - to advance TNC science-based conservation strategies. This includes but not limited to activities like developing predictive models, integrating spatial data with field surveys, conducting landscape analyses to assess ecological integrity, identifying potential priority sites using modeling tools, spatial conservation action planning, developing and implementing decision support tools.
- Geospatial Technology: Work with TNC scientists to define problem statements and the role of geospatial technologies in addressing them, including development of new tools, approaches, methods, processes, and techniques to improve conservation actions.
- Partnerships: Build partnerships with relevant geospatial and data science agencies and universities in India. Work to advance other appropriate commercial technology partnerships.
- Program Management and Execution: Plan, manage, execute, and coordinate relevant projects and/or project work streams. Over time, identify the need for, and oversee additional related capacity (e.g., short-term or long-term interns, manager, analyst, specialist or technician). Identify, negotiate, and oversee contracts with vendors. Develop and manage program budget and integrate geospatial and technology budgets into program proposals and budgets as necessary.
- Significant opportunity to act independently within broad program goals.
- In supervisory capacity, plans, organizes and directs assigned project programs.
- Supervises project staff of managers, analysts, specialists, and technicians.
- May negotiate and contract with vendors.

**WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU**:
**Roles and responsibilities**:

- Broad conceptualization, execution, management, and leadership responsibility for all geospatial and technology work, including setting programmatic objectives, and identifying and bringing on additional capacity as needed (e.g., interns, consultants, full time permanent or project hires).
- Ensure that global and field-based projects utilize cutting edge geospatial technology and science to help address large-scale, complex problems by leveraging internal and external capacity, and systematic and thorough processes.
- Coordinate a multidisciplinary team, including responsibility for team engagement, and staff management (objective setting, coaching, and mentoring).
- Conduct spatial planning of land, water, and oceans across India.
- Designs, directs, and/or executes complex and diversified projects, coordinating the work of