Research Associate

4 days ago


مصر, Egypt ICARDA Full time

**Reports to**: Climate, Peace, and Security Policy Scientist MENA Regional Climate Security Hub
**Location**: Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT-Cairo, Egypt

**Main purpose of position**:
About ICARDA

**About Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT**:
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) is a global organization that builds on the complementary mandates and long collaboration of the two entities to respond to today’s global challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and malnutrition.
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT delivers research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people’s lives. To do so, the Alliance works with local, national, and multinational partners across Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa, and with the public and private sectors. With partners, the Alliance generates evidence and mainstreams innovations in large-scale programs to create food systems and landscapes that sustain the planet, drive prosperity, and nourish people in a climate crisis.

**Main responsibilities**:
The spatial analyst will work with the research teams of the FOCUS Climate Security Team and MENA Regional Climate Security Hub on the following tasks:

- Conduct geospatial analysis to identify and assess areas vulnerable to multiple layers of risk, including climate-induced food insecurity and fragility.
- Lead the development of spatial models and simulations to assess the impact of climate-related variables on food security and displacement.
- Create and maintain GIS databases, ensuring accuracy, relevance, and accessibility of spatial data.
- Conduct research to locate and obtain existing databases, thematic layers and grid data including but not limited to existing spatial data including maps of land cover, climate, socioeconomic data, conflict, terrain information etc.
- Produce high-quality maps and visualizations to communicate complex spatial information effectively.
- Collaborate with the Climate Security Team to integrate GIS outputs into broader research and analysis.
- Provide technical support in utilizing GIS tools and software to team members.
- Contribute to backend development to help integrate outputs into the GIS platform/tool with clean, well-documented code that utilizes APIs to pull in different types of spatial and temporal data and perform operations on the data layers to produce new layers such as risk heat maps etc.
- Contributing to the production of a regional strategic plan for research and policy impact.
- Contributing to research proposals and the design of research methodologies.
- Contribute to the planning and implementing of regional, country-level, and field research.
- Drafting and contributing to scientific knowledge outputs including peer reviewed papers, briefs, and blogs.
- Contributing to the integration of science and policy through the MENA Climate Security Hub’s policy advocacy in the region.
- Delivering training sessions, presentations, and facilitating workshop, conference, and seminar sessions.
- Contributing to the establishment and development of a growing partner network for CGIAR’s MENA Regional Climate Security Hub through building and maintaining partnerships with key entities and players across the region.

**Requirements**:
**Education, qualifications, and experience**:

- Master’s Degree in Geography or other physical science involving advanced coding and geospatial analysis (this can be compensated by a Bachelor’s Degree with at least 5 years of additional experience on the job and relevant certificates of relevant additional training).
- At least 7 years of work experience in the field of spatial analysis, preferably in a research setting or with an international organization working in the field of environment and/or development.
- Highly skilled in the use of ArcGIS, R, Python, QGIS or similar tools.
- A profound grasp of cutting-edge programming and tools related to GIS, spatial analysis, and the presentation of spatial data.
- Outstanding research skills and grasp of theories and concepts related to climate change, peace, and security.
- Outstanding organizational skills, as well as the ability to work independently and to proactively lead tasks and processes.
- Excellent presentation, communication, and academic writing skills.
- Excellent teamwork capacities and interest in working as part of an international and dynamic team.
- Fluency in Arabic and English, written and spoken.

**Benefits**:
**Terms of appointment, salary, and benefits**:



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