Science Advisor

Place: Science Advisor
Working place: Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW), Cuc Phuong Nationwide Park, Ninh
Binh Province, Vietnam
Report back to: Conservation Analysis Supervisor
Venture Period: 02 12 months, with the opportunity of renewal
Beginning date: 1st July 2024
Period of contract: 02 12 months, with the opportunity of
renewal
Probation interval: 03 months

Save Vietnam’s Wildlife

Save Vietnam’s Wildlife is a nationwide Non-Revenue group in Vietnam that was established
in 2014.

Mission

Save Vietnam’s Wildlife works to cease the extinction and champion the restoration of threatened
species in Vietnam.

Goals

• Delivering efficient education schemes to empower individuals to take knowledgeable motion.
• Working with Authorities to impact constructive, long-lasting change for wildlife.
• Rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing confiscated threatened wildlife in help of untamed
  populations, in addition to demonstrating and selling good animal welfare.
• Rising understanding of conservation necessities of threatened wildlife by
  rigorous scientific analysis.
• Making certain the wildlife habitats is totally protected and native communities are engaged to
  defend wildlife.

POSITION INTRODUCTION

As a Science Advisor in Wildlife Conservation specializing in capability improvement and technical
help, you’ll play a pivotal position in offering scientific experience and steerage to help
conservation efforts aimed toward preserving and restoring biodiversity inside Save Vietnam’s
Wildlife (SVW). Your major accountability shall be to empower SVW’s Vietnamese group by
enhancing their capability to implement conservation actions successfully. This can contain
supporting the group in grant writing, donor reporting, and technical reporting, whereas additionally
offering direct technical help for conservation analysis initiatives.

Job Description

Analysis actions

• Lead the conceptualization and design of analysis initiatives in wildlife conservation,
  guaranteeing alignment with organizational goals and scientific rigor (outline analysis
  questions, hypotheses, and methodologies, contemplating moral pointers and sensible
  constraints). Analysis actions will deal with camera-trap survey, radio monitoring, habitat
  evaluation, habits examine, DNA evaluation, social analysis, and so forth…
• Established protocols and requirements, and troubleshoot any challenges encountered throughout
  area operations.
• Conduct statistical analyses and information interpretation to derive significant insights and
  conclusions related to wildlife conservation goals.

Knowledge administration

• Supervise and administration of analysis information and help different departments in managing information of
  the group, together with high quality management measures and documentation procedures.

Capability improvement

• Assess Vietnamese employees’s expertise, data, and coaching wants, develop custom-made
  coaching applications encompassing technical and mushy expertise, and collaborate with inner and
  exterior consultants to ship periods on analysis methods, information evaluation, report writing, and
  mission administration.

Grants and funding

• Figuring out grant and fundraising alternatives.
• Supply coaching in grant writing and donor reporting, equipping Vietnamese employees with the
  mandatory expertise to safe funding and successfully talk mission outcomes to donors.
• Present hands-on help and steerage throughout the preparation of grant proposals and donor
  reviews, guaranteeing alignment with organizational priorities and donor necessities.

Scientific report/Publications

• Put together analysis findings for publication in scientific journals, convention displays,
  and technical reviews.
• Collaborate with inner and exterior stakeholders to disseminate analysis outcomes
  by varied channels, contributing to data sharing and informing conservation
  apply.

Job Necessities

Important:

• No less than a bachelor diploma in biology, ecology, wildlife conservation or a associated
  self-discipline
• No less than 5 years expertise in conservation analysis, with a deal with biodiversity
  conservation and unlawful wildlife commerce.
• Proficiency in statistical evaluation and information interpretation, ready to make use of R and GIS
  software program.
• Confirmed observe report in grant writing, donor reporting, and technical reporting, ideally
  throughout the context of conservation organizations or analysis establishments.
• Sturdy facilitation and coaching expertise, with the flexibility to design and ship capability
  improvement applications for various audiences.
• Wonderful communication expertise, each written and verbal, with the flexibility to convey complicated
  scientific ideas clearly and successfully.
• Fluency in English language.
• Dedication to SVW’s mission and values, with a ardour for wildlife conservation and a
  dedication to capability improvement.

Fascinating:

• Broad understanding of conservation points in South-east Asia
• Having expertise doing area journeys in South-east Asia forests.
• Having data of utilizing SMART in forest patrols

Private qualities:

• Affected person, good humoured, and constructive
• Dynamic and capable of adapt shortly
• Professional-active and impartial learner
• Strategic thinker

Alternatives & Profit

• Working 5 days/week, off work Saturday and Sunday, Nationwide Holidays
• 26 holidays/12 months (12 working days’ annual vacation, plus 14 nationwide vacation days);
• Be supplied an airfare to Hanoi, and airfare to dwelling nation after completion of contract
  or, if extending, at finish of place.
• Be coated the price of the place visa whereas in Vietnam.
• Journey for work and meals within the area shall be paid.

DEADLINE

Candidates ought to ship their current CV and a canopy letter in an e-mail with title “Apply for
Science Advisor” to e-mail: [email protected].

Acknowledgements shall be despatched to short-listed candidates solely.

Telephone contact: (+84) 02293848053

Utility Deadline: 27 April 2024