4 jobs in CIFOR-ICRAF
Job Description
The Accounts Assistant is responsible for processing payments to consultants.
Duties and responsibilities
- Processing Advances for staff, consultants, and workshop/conference participants for Bogor
- Process travel advances and advances for workshops and any other official advances
- Make sure the completeness of supporting documents before processing the advance
- Make sure that previous advances are clear before preparing new requests
- Consultancy journalizing and payments
- Review and journalize consultancy payments and ensure that all supporting documents are properly attached, approved, and are in line with policies and procedures
- Ensure that commitments and accruals are cleared upon completion/payments of contracts
- Accrue consultancy contracts that meet the criteria stipulated in the finance policy manual
- Generate payment runs to process the amounts due in payable accounts as per agreements with the consultants
- Audit
- Timely preparation and submission of audit schedules
- Respond to audit queries in a timely manner during both External and Internal Audit
- Key contact support for both internal and external audits
- Internal Controls
- Implement internal control systems that ensure CIFOR-ICRAF attains its objectives, produce accurate and reliable data for decision making
- Ensure compliance with policies and safeguard of CIFOR-ICRAF assets
Education, knowledge and experience
- Bachelor's degree in accounting
- 1-3 years professional experience in an accounting role is required
- Experience using Microsoft Excel and Outlook is required
- Familiar with accounting system, preferably UNIT4 Agresso System
- Fluent in written and spoken English
Terms and conditions
- This is a Locally Recruited Staff (LRS) position. CIFOR-ICRAF offers competitive remuneration in local currency, commensurate with skills and experience
- The appointment will be for 1 (one) year with the possibility of extension contingent upon performance, continued relevance of the position, and available resources
- The duty station will be in Bogor, Indonesia
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CIFOR-ICRAF promotes Gender Diversity – Applications from women professionals are encouraged.
CIFOR-ICRAF is an equal opportunity employer. It fosters a multicultural work environment that values gender equality, teamwork, and respect for diversity.
Application process
The application deadline is
31 Oct 2025
We will acknowledge all applications, but will contact only short-listed candidates.
Job Description
Under the supervision of the head of SPACIAL the Spatial Data Scientist – Remote Sensing will lead and implement advanced remote sensing analysis tasks, including processing of optical and SAR data, timeseries analysis, and predictive modeling with primary focus on the modeling of temporal dynamics across complex landscapes. The position will support a range of projects and programmes across CIFOR-ICRAF, including Regreening Africa, Knowledge for Great Green Wall Action (K4GGWA). Towards Ending Drought Emergencies (Twende), and upcoming assessments of soil and land health with funding from NORAD.
Duties and responsibilities
Spatial data science
- Optical data processing and analysis, including from sensors such as Sentinel 2 and Landsat 8/9.
- SAR data processing and analysis, primarily Sentinel 1.
- Timeseries analysis, including detection of trends and anomalies in temporal data (vegetation, precipitation, land surface temperatures, etc)
- Predictive modeling of time series data, including forecasting where relevant.
- Applications of machine learning for predictive modeling and mapping of indicators relevant to assessment of ecosystem health using a combination of field data and remote sensing.
- Spatial data analysis tasks, including spatial queries, vector data extraction, processing, and cleaning.
- General data analysis and report writing.
- Supervise a team of junior spatial data scientists and developers.
- Develop communication products/outputs where relevant.
Capacity development
- Lead internal capacity development seminars within CIFOR-ICRAF.
- Capacity development of partners and stakeholders through workshops as part of projects with particular emphasis on spatial data processing and modeling.
Stakeholder engagement
- Work closely with the CIFOR-ICRAF stakeholder engagement team (SHARED) to provide analytical outputs that feed into project delivery, for example monitoring outputs as part of the Great Green Wall.
- Contribute to stakeholder engagement events as part of the development of decision support tools and platforms.
Various Other Tasks
- Contribute to micro-dashboard development as part of the Global Resilience Impact Tracker platform
- Support projects and programs with analytical support and stakeholder engagement with decision makers.
- Lead and/or contribute to scientific papers.
- Contribute to proposal development and writing.
Requirements
Education, knowledge and experience
- MSc degree in remote sensing and spatial data science is required with proven ability to conduct highly complex analytical tasks.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Advanced computer programming skills in R Statistics, some knowledge of Python and/or Julia, database technologies, and data management.
Personal Attributes And Competencies
- Excellent skills in organizing and priority setting, with the ability to work effectively under time pressure and manage multiple priorities.
- Have initiative and capable of working independently as well as an effective team player.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact with people in a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural environment.
- Experience working with a wide and diverse network of groups and individuals.
- Proactive, target driven, and diligent.
- Works with trustworthiness and integrity.
Education, knowledge and experience
- MSc degree in remote sensing and spatial data science is required with proven ability to conduct highly complex analytical tasks.
- Advanced computer programming skills in R Statistics, some knowledge of Python and/or Julia, database technologies, and data management.
Terms and conditions
- This is a Globally Recruited Staff (GRS) position. CIFOR-ICRAF offers competitive remuneration in USD, commensurate with skills and experience.
- The appointment will be for two (2) year period, inclusive of a six-month probationary period, with the possibility of extension contingent upon performance, continued relevance of the position and available resources.
- The duty station will be in Kenya, Nairobi.
Application process
The application deadline is
09 Oct 2025
We will acknowledge all applications, but will contact only short-listed candidates.
Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the leading science communications programs in the world. The Global Events and Conferences Manager will work with a high-performing, dynamic and creative team and contribute to CIFOR-ICRAF's global efforts to stabilize the climate, reverse biodiversity loss, and improve food security. We're looking for someone with creative vision and drive, who is a communications all-rounder and experienced manager with a keen eye for detail and quality. Reporting to the Head of Global Outreach and Engagement, the Global Events and Conferences Manager has a knack for organizing impactful, memorable events around the world with flair. From the small details of events to big-picture overviews, like preparing the global communications strategy and budget forecasting each year for conferences and events, the Global Events and Conferences Manager leads the coordination of internal and external communication, events budget management and overall events logistical support; oversees relevant staff and consultants; and leads the publication and dissemination of knowledge products around events. The successful candidate will ensure the effective evaluation of CIFOR-ICRAF's global events in alignment with the overall outreach and communications strategy. They will work with the Communications, Outreach and Engagement unit and CIFOR-ICRAF's scientific staff to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of CIFOR-ICRAF's overall investment in events, workshops, and conferences through effective planning and evaluation.
Duties and responsibilities
- Source and implement a digital events platform for all CIFOR-ICRAF digital and hybrid events.
- Develop and execute full communications plans for each event, including briefs, editorial agenda, run-of-show, speaking notes and leading on the communications strategy.
- Liaise with CIFOR-ICRAF scientists to prepare and to assist in drafting concept notes related to CIFOR-ICRAF campaigns, events, online initiatives including events of global significance, Global Landscapes Forum events and regional and thematic events.
- Provide full events planning, implementation, reports, and logistical service to CIFOR-ICRAF's themes and regions and prepare event reports and lessons learnt for knowledge management.
- Build a global events program.
- Manage and report on events budgets.
- Hire and manage event subcontractors.
- Manage consultants and staff involved in CIFOR-ICRAF's global events and ensure effective coordination with scientists and the Communications, Outreach and Engagement unit.
- Serve as a focal point, develop, and manage relationships with stakeholders and partners and organizations related to conferences.
- Manage the preparation and execution of all conference contracts.
- Coordinate the CIFOR-ICRAF's Events Management System, events webpage and events calendar and conduct research to build a more comprehensive event portfolio for the institution to maximize its impact and influence in the agriculture and forestry sectors, and beyond.
- Work closely with fellow CIFOR-ICRAF COE team members
Education, knowledge and experience
- A degree in communications or a related discipline
- At least 5 years experience in global conferences, events planning, logistics and budget management
- Experience in coordinating large conferences involving senior government ministers and in managing attendances of more than 1,000 participants.
Terms and conditions
- This is a consultancy position. ?The period of the consultancy is 1 (one) year. ?Work location: Nairobi, Kenya, Bonn, Germany, or similar time zone.
Application process
The application deadline is
05 Oct 2025
We will acknowledge all applications, but will contact only short-listed candidates.
Job Description
The Remote Sensing Officer will implement advanced data science and remote sensing tasks. One specific task will be the training and deployment of Google GenCast weather forecasting model to our servers. The person needs to be able to train, tune and interpret complex Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) used to predict a multitude of climatic indicators 15 days ahead based on historic data. Also, the person needs to perform an extensive validation on the outcomes of the predictions to make informed decisions on the usefulness of the outputs. These predictions can flow into our other pipelines to enhance the climate resilience assessments across projects. He/she will also work with cloud platforms such as Google Earth Engine for the development of pipelines for spatial data integration. The recently developed Spatio Temporal Asset Catalog (STAC) requires new pipelines to populate and update the STAC with the latest satellite information. For this, an advanced level of GEE and/or python is required. Additionally, this person will actively contribute to the development of dashboards, and other platforms and decision support tools. Also, this role will support the development of remote sensing outputs that can be used to inform restoration planning, assess climate resilience, and applied for large-scale monitoring of land restoration outcomes. The position will support a range of projects and programs across CIFOR-ICRAF, including the Knowledge for the Great Green Wall Action (K4GGWA) and Regreening Africa Phase II.
Duties and responsibilities
- Data science & remote sensing
- Train and deploy complex GNN models for continental weather forecasting.
- Perform scientifically robust validation of ML predictions.
- Develop pipelines to populate and update the STAC.
- Spatial data analysis tasks, including spatial queries, vector data extraction, processing, and cleaning.
- General data analysis and report writing.
- Dashboard development
- Develop interactive dashboards to display analyses using R, Python and/or Julia
- Develop interactive tools to share and communicate spatial data sets through, for instance, earth engine apps.
- Various other tasks
- Contribute to scientific papers.
- Contribute to proposal development and writing.
Requirements
- BSc degree in remote sensing and spatial data science is required with proven ability to perform complex data science and remote sensing tasks and combine various (remotely sensed) datasets.
- Develop dashboards showing (remotely sensed) data.
- Advanced computer programming skills in R, Python, Javascript, database technologies, and data management.
Education, knowledge and experience
- BSc degree in remote sensing and spatial data science is required with proven ability to perform complex data science and remote sensing tasks and combine various (remotely sensed) datasets.
- Develop dashboards showing (remotely sensed) data.
- Advanced computer programming skills in R, Python, Javascript, database technologies, and data management.
Terms and conditions
- This is a temporary position for Locally Recruited Staff (LRS). CIFOR-ICRAF offers competitive remuneration in local currency commensurate with skills and experience.
- The appointment will be for be for 6 months.
- The duty station will be in Nairobi, Kenya CIFOR-ICRAF HQ Offices.
Application process
The application deadline is
06 Oct 2025
We will acknowledge all applications, but will contact only short-listed candidates.