Remote Sensing and Gis Specialist

**Position Title: Remote Sensing and GIS Specialist**:
**Location**: Singapore

**Come Join Us**:
ClearWind is a forest carbon project development company headquartered in Singapore. It originates, designs, and develops nature-based projects across Southeast Asia that mitigate climate change through the protection of tropical forest landscapes, and removes greenhouses gasses from the atmosphere through the restoration of forest and other natural ecosystems. ClearWind was founded on the mission of achieving these goals through global carbon and climate markets, bringing value back to maintain the natural ecosystems, biodiversity, and local communities that are stakeholders in our projects. ClearWind draws on decades of combined experience from across the region to deliver a comprehensive approach to project design, delivering the highest impact and quality of project to the market. With nearly two decades of individual expertise in market-based solutions to conservation in Southeast Asia, we work to leverage natural capital as a viable opportunity for local economic development, while helping companies work through efficient market mechanisms to meet their climate targets.

**Position Overview**:
The Remote Sensing and GIS Specialist will work directly within the Company’s central development team to implement core remote sensing and geospatial functionalities and to build the necessary models, automations, and monitoring systems that are required to determine the design and ultimate impact of the company’s projects, primarily in terms of reducing deforestation and forest degradation, and restoring forests, peatlands, and other important natural ecosystems over time.

**Position Responsibilities**:
This position will work directly under and closely with the Global Head of Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis, in collaboration with other Remote Sensing and GIS staff of the Company and those located in country offices, primarily on the following:

- Developing the Company’s in-house remote sensing and GIS capabilities, infrastructure, platforms, and other systems, which support and enable centralised and coordinated project origination, screening, development, and ongoing monitoring needs;
- Building automated systems for implementing core remote sensing and geospatial functions, including Standard Operating Procedures, Sharepoint Sites, and the basic infrastructure of the Company’s databases, in support of creating a truly shared platform for all the Company’s staff for intra/inter-country collaboration between projects;
- Leveraging advanced functionalities such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cloud-based computing to support the Company’s remote sensing and GIS needs;
- Developing core RS/GIS components and products required by projects, including analysis and modeling of various geospatial and field datasets for feasibility assessment, project development, and monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV);
- Conducting training and capacity development of other Remote Sensing and GIS staff from all the other country offices in performing their core functions; and
- Participating in and conducting site visits and fieldwork.

**Eligibility Requirements**:

- Experience in remote sensing of forest and land change dynamics, geospatial webapp (WebGIS) development, geospatial analysis and modeling, ground truthing, and an understanding of carbon as it applies to land change, REDD+, including peat and peatland dynamics.
- Experience in field-based inventories, survey design, and implementation.
- Regional experience across Southeast Asia considered a distinct asset.

**What We Bring to You**:

- A uniquely on-the ground experience where you will be getting your hands dirty working on real-world projects in remote locations with indigenous peoples around the region.
- A deeply dedicated and energetic team led by two co-founders with two decades of experience in carbon project development.
- Full health insurance coverage.
- Collective team-based performance-based bonuses.

**Work Condition**:
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