Blue Forest is seeking to apply scientific tools for benefit accounting and communicate nature-positive pathways to new audiences, in order to accelerate ecological restoration through conservation finance and enable climate resilience for ecosystems and communities.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience working directly with database management systems such as Oracle and MySQL, and can configure, manage, and maintain relational databases.
- Familiar with SQL, BigQuery, & writing scripts (Python, R) to wrangle unstructured data
- Experience applying both open source and proprietary geospatial tools (e.g., QGIS, ArcGIS Pro, R) to perform spatial data management, querying, and reporting
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, organization, and attention to detail
- Able to navigate ambiguity, prioritize workloads, manage projects, and communicate as part of a team working remotely
- Eagerness to work in a transdisciplinary environment, develop collaborative approaches, and value knowledge plurality (ecosystem services, social sciences, Indigenous and local knowledge)
- Strong communication skills to translate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy custom databases to meet project and partner needs for storing, curating, and analyzing data.
- Conduct a review of current procedures for acquiring and managing data to identify areas for improvement.
- Check in with staff leading metrics tracking on individual projects to continue streamlining processes, identify challenges, and potential solutions.
- Compile and manage consistent data flows from multiple platforms and data types to support project development, project management, and reporting requirements.
- Improve data workflows and processing tasks by implementing data quality control procedures to ensure FRB impact reporting accuracy, completeness, and credibility.
- Develop and maintain metadata to ensure others can discover, understand, and use knowledge.
- Collaborate with Blue Forest’s science and project development staff and external partners to identify data needs and requirements.
Other
- Reports to: Director of Conservation Science
- Salary: $90 to $110k depending on experience
- Travel: Up to 15%
- Preferred Start Date: December 1st, 2025
- Priority Application Deadline: October 10th, 2025
