The Freshwater Science Technical Lead assists local TNC and partner field programs in a range of geographies with designing, implementing, and evaluating conservation investment programs that deliver water security and healthy ecosystem outcomes. This work involves executing primary scientific analyses, project management against defined timelines, coordinating inputs across partner subject matter experts, incorporating feedback from local stakeholders, and ensuring the quality of finalized scientific outputs. In particular, this position will provide project management and technical execution support for projects promoting NbS for water security, including aspects relating to hydrology, geographic information systems, prioritization & optimization algorithms, land use / land cover evaluation, and monitoring & evaluation program development.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND SCOPE
- Leads science project management workstreams to support NbS for water security outcomes, in particular spatial analyses of watershed management options, hydrological modeling and associated ecosystem service evaluation, NbS portfolio prioritization studies, inputs to return-on-investment analyses and design of monitoring & evaluation programs.
- Integrates multiple scientific workstreams and ensures overall integrity of data and modeling architecture.
- Expertly applies commonly used hydrological modeling and spatial analytical tools.
- Collaborates with partners (in particular, watershed stakeholders) from diverse backgrounds and geographies to incorporate their perspectives and develop interdisciplinary scientific products.
- Communicates scientific results to technical and lay audiences.
- Delivers project outputs in a range of geographic and data quality contexts.
- Manages contract vendors including issuing terms of reference, managing contractor workflows, and ensuring integrity of final outputs.
- Presents technical science outputs and outcomes in stakeholder meetings, publications, and conference settings.
- Collaborates with Nature for Water Facility knowledge management staff to refine standard processes, procedures, & templates over time.