The Nature Conservancy/Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025 – YOA

Deadline: Unspecified

Applications are open for The Nature Conservancy/Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025. The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Smithsonian Institution (SI) have launched an modern partnership to advance sustainability analysis and form a extra resilient future via a cohort of collectively mentored postdoctoral students.

Both organizations have a wealthy historical past of leveraging science, know-how, and group engagement to advance options to among the world’s most urgent challenges affecting folks and nature. Building on a longstanding historical past of collaboration, TNC and SI are as soon as once more becoming a member of forces to drive slicing-edge analysis and innovation for a resilient and affluent planet. This initiative will help cohorts of rising scientific leaders, empowering them to work hand-in-hand with stakeholders to co-create proof-based mostly options that strengthen resilience. Each establishment will host as much as three Postdoctoral Fellows. While Fellows will probably be embedded in analysis {and professional} growth actions throughout each organizations, they are going to be housed and obtain HR help via their hiring establishment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver instruments, knowledge, analytical help, area companies and coaching in help of TNC’s Climate and Ocean international work
• Review, draw methodological insights from and synthesize related scientific literature.
• Manage and analyze knowledge and write up findings for peer-reviewed publications.
• Design experiments and gather knowledge.
• Develop visualizations for speaking analysis outcomes.
• Contribute to grant writing and different fundraising efforts.
• Develop each inner and exterior partnerships and work collaboratively to help above features and tasks.
• May work in variable climate circumstances, at distant places, in hazardous terrain and below bodily demanding circumstances.
• Develops scientific proof for knowledgeable determination-making on conservation alternatives and precedence areas for restoration/conservation.
• Incorporate cross-disciplinary information to help mission goals.
• May contain home and worldwide journey as much as 25% of the time.

Salary

• For U.S. based mostly candidates solely, the beginning pay vary for this place is mostly inside the vary of $64,100 – $73,440 for annual base wage and relies on location, {qualifications}, particular abilities, and expertise.

Eligibility

• Ph.D. in a pure or social science self-discipline related to conservation science, awarded by begin of the place (and not than 4 years prior) and no less than 1 to 2 years of associated expertise.
• Expertise in geospatial modeling, spatial statistics, or distant sensing.
• Knowledge of coastal wetlands ecology or land change dynamics.
• Experience synthesizing scientific literature, and in writing peer-reviewed publications.
• Experience amassing, manipulating, analyzing and deciphering scientific knowledge.
• Proficiency in spatial and statistical computing platforms like R, Python, Google Earth Engine, ArcGIS, GRASS GIS, QGIS, and so forth.
• Strong writing and communication abilities in English.

Desired Qualifications

• Multi-cultural or cross-cultural expertise is appreciated. 
• Experience working with massive datasets.
• Experience with ecosystem companies valuation, price-profit analyses, social and environmental affect assessments, or carbon markets.
• Ability to work collaboratively and successfully with staff members and stakeholders in lots of companion organizations throughout geographies with the flexibility to work independently when required.
• Ability to arrange work successfully, conceptualize and prioritize goals and train unbiased judgment based mostly on an understanding of organizational insurance policies and actions. 

Application

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For extra data, go to The Nature Conservancy Postdoctoral Fellowship.