Geospatial systems lead Rainforest Builder

About Rainforest Builder

Rainforest Builder is Africas leading forest restoration company on a mission to restore one million hectares of degraded land to tropical forest. We bring together world-leading science forestry and tech to deliver high-quality forest restoration at unprecedented scale. Backed by some of the largest companies and investors in the world we remove millions oftonnesof CO2 from the atmosphere restoreglobally threatenedbiodiversity and deliverequitableeconomic growth to rural communities. We currentlyoperatefour projects across three countries in WestAfrica andare continuing to expand to new areas within the region.

Role overview

As our Geospatial Systems Lead you will take ownership of our spatial data and planning functionality. You will provide technical oversight of our cadastral surveying spatial data collection and curation and mapping and geospatial analysis. You will oversee a large operation of land surveying and drone flying ensuring that our planning functionality is best in class and capable of scaling to management units exceeding tens of thousands of hectares.

Currently we have over ten thousand hectares currently under management or at a late stage of surveying and this is set to rapidly grow as we continue to expand operations. This growth requires an individual that understands intimately the challenges that spatial databring andcan tightly manage mapping operations at scale. This role requires an expert in surveying and data management whois capable of overseeinga large and dispersed field operation across many sites in West Africa.

The role is a Full-time (hybrid/remote)role requiring up to 3 months/year at projects in West Africa.

The ideal candidate will:

• have excellent data management and analytical skills withsignificant experienceworking with large spatial datasets.
• have experience of cadastral surveying and understand the challenges of mapping and team management in a Global South context.
• be highly self-motivated and canoperatewith high agency toidentifyand manage problems effectively

Key Responsibilities

• Own our spatial data and spatial data collection processes ensuring that they generate high-fidelity representations of our areas under management
• Oversee and improve our cadastral surveying operation across large and complicated areas in West Africa
• Data management:identifyand investigate data errors and inconsistencies; work with field teams to address root causes and continually refine our processes
• Contribute to the development of tools and processing pipelines to handle and manage spatial data
• Team Building and Leadership: you will support the growth and development of Rainforest Builders Planning teams across all projects.

Candidate requirements

• Proficient in R and/or Python
• Comfortable managing large geospatial datasets and drone data and able toidentifyanomaliestraceand fix errors and build reproducible analytical workflows
• Experience of cadastral surveying in a Global South context. You should be familiar with the challenges associated withestablishinghigh-fidelity boundaries and solutions to these problems
• Experience working with remote sensing datasets and drone imagery
• Highly self-motivated and excited by the challenge ofmaintainingrigorous data quality across a large field operation
• Excellent problem solver- able toidentifyproblems and challenges as theyemergeand resolve appropriately

To apply

Please a CV and covering letter including the job title in the subject line. Applications via LinkedIn will not be reviewed.

• Competitive salary plus benefits