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The World Agroforestry Centre is looking for a Climate Change and Policy Associate Scientist to be based in Yaounde, Cameroon. The selected candidate will be required to travel within the region to the country offices of the different nodes and within the ASB platform network. The successful candidate will have the following responsibilities:

Research

• Carry out and contribute to research in the areas of climate change mitigation and adaptation, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+), Reducing Emissions from All Land Uses (REALU), payment for environmental services (PES), sustainable land management, and biodiversity conservation as their link to agroforestry
• Lead and coordinate ICRAF-related ASB Partnership activities in the West and Central Africa Region
• Coordinate and support development of methodologies for climate-related forest policy and other land uses
• Analyze existing policies and potential policy reforms in terms of their impact on climate change debates at national and international levels
• Carrying out thematic action research at landscape scale to evaluate the impact of climate change policy instruments in achieving landscape connectivity and in reducing deforestation and degradation
• Publish outputs in high quality publications, including peer-reviewed journals, extension technical notes and policy briefs
• Supervise graduate students in  research in one or more of the above mentioned areas

Policy, capacity building in the area of climate change, REDD+ and payment of environmental services

• Promote links to regional forestry and environmental management policies
• Actively engage in the development of relevant policy for agroforestry development  through science-policy processes
• Contribute technical expertise  in the development of  REDD demonstration activities in the ASB benchmarks

Fundraising and project management

• Develop project concepts (seeking opportunities for proposals, developing proposals, follow ups) and raise resources for research activities in the West and Central Africa region
• Assist the Regional Coordinator in steering and managing specific projects

More information.

Deadline: January 15, 2012

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