Position Summary
The Colorado Forest Restoration Institute CFRI has extensive experience and expertise in codesigning mentoring monitoring and adaptively managing collaborative governance processes to support collaborative decisionmaking focused on forest wildfire resilience. To this end CFRI is involved in multiple initiatives to develop and facilitate the application of social sciencebased knowledge concerning the effectiveness and resilience of collaborative groups. Specifically CFRI assesses the factors that affect the readiness resilience and adaptiveness of multistakeholder collaboration in the forest and wildfire risk arena monitors the social and ecological outcomes of collaborative governance and uses this information to inform decision making in support of collaborative progress and performance. The Research Associate position is specifically tasked with deploying qualitative and quantitative social science analytical tools and methods to assess collaborative progress performance and resilience and supporting advancement of the science and practice of collaborative environmental governance in forest and fire contexts. The incumbent will be responsible for: 1 social science data collection management and analysis to support science and planning initiatives; 2 supporting the development and publication of peerreviewed journal papers technical reports or other nontechnical reports and presentations for diverse audiences; and 3 support and determine the collaborative planning activities and adaptive management processes to help managers and stakeholders produce and integrate socialscience based knowledge into forest management decisionmaking. The incumbent should have a general knowledge of public forest and wildfire management concepts and issues in the western United States and experience in collaborative governance planning and decisionsupport activities in forest or related natural resource management settings. This position qualifies for parttime remote.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority