Job advertisement ? Reference InnovPP0034/2022 Junior Geospatial Analyst ? 4. Monitoring and Diagnostic of the Collaborative Lab ?InnovPlantProtect ? Associação?

Reporting Line

The Junior Geospatial Analyst reports to Director of Department 4. Monitoring and Diagnostic

Technical Focus

The Work will be done in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams of machine learning engineers, data scientists and data manager/GIS specialist using the latest tools, technologies and techniques. Candidates should have self-motivation, curiosity and passion for undertaking geospatial analyses to be applied to agriculture and translate in practical and manageable decision support tools for practitioners.

Candidates must have:

• University Master or PhD qualification in Environmental science, Forestry, Agronomy, Biology, Geography, Engineering
• Previous experience in fieldwork and knowledge of survey design and field methods
• Experience in GIS and basic spatial analysis
• Demonstrable skills in either python or R and their use in simple models (GLM, linear regression)
• Good level of English

Additional notes:

1. Previous experience in drone/satellite image analysis is an advantage, but not essential.

2. Immediate availability is an advantage.

Tasks and responsibilities

The geospatial analyst will perform the following duties:

• Participate in fieldwork to monitor pests or diseases in Mediterranean ecosystem ensuring data quality throughout the process.
• If not directly collected in the field, identify best spatial datasets to support the work Analyse and map datasets using GIS and statistics (with R or python)
• Identify models that best suit the data analysis
• Prepare and publish quality digital maps with appropriate and compliant metadata using QGIS.
• Contribute with project ideas to enhance and broaden the portfolio of geo-spatial data services of the team
• Write reports
• In case of previous knowledge, carry out analysis of drone/satellite images ensuring data quality throughout the process.

Main Skills

• Familiarity with fieldwork
• Attitude to problem solving
• Communication and Building Effective Relationship
• Analytical skills
• Knowledgeable of data collection protocols and standards.
• Organised and proactive
• Resourceful and pragmatic
• Self-learner, self-motivated, curious and independent

InnovPlantProtect is a private non-profit association

InnovPlantProtect aims to create innovation for the protection of crops, seeds, and postharvest products, in particular through:

• Development of new technologies and knowledge, as well as the improvement of previously developed technologies, to protect crops, seeds and post-harvest products, as well as their intellectual protection and availability;
• Development of applied scientific research to introduce the developed technologies in the market, and to develop processes and products;
• Provide technical support to companies and entities, public or private, assisting them in the introduction of biotechnological strategies, methods and processes, and in the orientation and implementation of industrial research and development, directed towards the protection of crops, seeds and post-harvest products;
• Collaboration with public or private institutions, national or foreign in their areas of activity.
  

Workplace

InnovPlantProtect, at the INIAV Elvas, Portugal, in the former National Plant Breeding Station.

Salary and contract

A full-time contract will be offered, starting 1st April, 2022.The contract will last until December 31, 2022, and will be renewed past 2022 depending on further financial support. All the activities to be developed will be subject to confidentiality clauses.

The gross value of the remuneration will be ?1.544,00(MSc) or ?2.025,35(PhD) (14 month, with 4,77? for meal allowance).

Financial Support

This contract is co-financed by the European Social Fund and Alentejo 2020, under the Operation: Highly qualified employment in companies - Hiring Highly Qualified Human Resources (Project reference: ALT20-59-2018-49)

To apply for this position, the following documents should be sent in a single PDF document :

• Curriculum vitae (CV)
• Motivation letter
• Statement of honour on how the data declared in the CV are true.
  

Where to send the application

To the care of the CEO of InnovPlantProtect Collaborative Lab, Professor Doctor Pedro Fevereiro ([email protected])

Deadlines

This call is open from February 23th to March 9th, 2022, with a decision expected by March 18th .

General rules of data protection (GDPR)

With the entry into force of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 April 2016, commonly known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and in order to ensure a fair and transparent treatment of the holder of the data, InnovPlantProtect informs that by applying for this position you are authorizing InnovPlantProtect to (1) collect and process your personal data deemed necessary and relevant to this recruitment process, (2) to disclose the results of the evaluation in accordance with the legislation in force.