Postdoctoral Fellow – IC
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Postdoctoral Fellow role focused on community-based peatland conservation in Angola with The Nature Conservancy. Collaborating with scientists and local communities to enhance conservation outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Contributing dedicated capacity to a peatland conservation science project in Angola, and more broadly, the conservation of two irreplaceable landscapes in Africa: the greater Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) and the Congo Basin.
- Focusing on community-based aspects of peatland conservation, stewardship, science and engagement as part of TNC’s commitment to protecting the headwaters of major river systems.
- Playing a key role in strengthening freshwater and peatland ecosystem conservation across the Angolan Highlands Water Tower, the broader KAZA landscape, and Congo Basin.
- Working closely with TNC scientists, practitioners, and partners in Angola and the region.
- Collaborating with a dynamic, international network of conservation practitioners, scientists and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) advisors.
- Helping bridge scientific inquiry and on-the-ground impact, developing knowledge, tools, and insights that support durable conservation outcomes at local, regional, and global scales.
Requirements:
- Ph.D. in a natural or social science discipline relevant to human-centered approaches to designing conservation interventions with communities, awarded by start of the position (and no longer than 4 years prior) and at least 1 to 2 years of related experience.
- Experience designing and conducting scientific research, including reviewing and synthesizing literature, designing and interpreting qualitative surveys and interviews, collecting and analyzing data, and interpreting results.
- A demonstrated ability to communicate scientific findings clearly through written products such as reports, manuscripts, or other scholarly outputs with a record of peer-reviewed publications.
- Experience working collaboratively with various colleagues or partners, in-person and remotely, across multiple geographies and timezones, and an interest in contributing to team-based, interdisciplinary efforts.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently with guidance from mentors.
- Strong writing and communication skills in English.
- Experience applying qualitative and/or quantitative social science and ethnographic approaches/methods in conservation contexts, including designing, conducting, analyzing and interpreting data from semi-structured interviews and focus groups.
- Knowledge of community-centered and rights-based conservation approaches, including experience working with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Africa.
- Experience with, or strong interest in learning and adapting human-centered design approaches for social innovation.
- Experience or interest in wetland conservation in multiple countries across Africa and beyond.
- Knowledge of complementary research tools and methods including survey design, qualitative, mixed-method and/or quantitative data analysis.
- Experience or interest in collaborating with colleagues skilled in spatial data analysis and remote sensing.
- Strong communication skills across formats, including written, verbal and visual or graphical communication.
- Portuguese language skills are highly desirable, but not required.
Benefits:
- Health care benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Employee assistance program
- Other life and well-being benefits
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