Position Summary
The Assistant Program Manager Spatial Analyst and Decision Support Specialist position is located in Fort Collins Colorado. The Colorado Forest Restoration Institute is involved in multiple initiatives that require the customized development and application of spatial data analysis and modeling methods and tools to support stakeholder decisionmaking. These include spatial wildfire planning frameworks and processes (i.e. Potential Operational Delineations) quantitative wildfire risk assessments vegetation condition analysis watershed assessment and modeling and spatial valuation optimization and prioritization modeling of potential wildfire mitigation and response actions. When developed customized and applied in a collaborative setting stakeholders are often able to identify priority areas for actions. Spatialanalytical methods and tools are also used for tracking assessing effectiveness and communicating the outcomes of those treatments. Because of the collaborative nature of these initiatives the incumbent also should have a general knowledge of the social and political dynamics surrounding western US forest ecology and forestry issues. The spatial analyst is expected to contribute to collaborative planning efforts and to the publication of peerreviewed journal papers and nontechnical products for diverse audiences. This position is specifically tasked with contributing geospatial technical and analytical skills towards developing and customizing decision support tools that help advance collaborative forest restoration integrated natural resource planning and wildfire risk mitigation response and recovery decisionmaking in Colorado and the Interior West. The incumbent will be responsible for spatial data production using remote sensing and fieldbased technologies GPS spatial data management spatial analysis to support science and planning initiatives and written and oral communication of spatial data and results of spatial analyses to diverse audiences. This position may be parttime remote optional.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority