Lowongan GIS Officer

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has a distinguished history of scientists exploring and saving wildlife in some of the most remote and wild places remaining on Earth. The Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program (WCS-IP) has significantly grown over the last decades, and contributed substantially to the conservation of biodiversity in Indonesia.

WCS-IP Terrestrial Program currently work in several landscapes in Sumatra and Sulawesi, Rote Island and Mesangat (East Kalimantan) where we aim to protect threatened species and their habitat through working with government agencies, civil society organisations and local communities. In order to achieve our overall goal of saving wildlife and wild places in Indonesia, WCS-IP includes amongst its strategic priorities landscape-level conservation management, support to protected areas (PAs), species conservation actions, and engaging local communities. In order to achieve our overall goal of saving wildlife and wild places, the WCS-IP programs are strongly supported and backed up by field activities that aim to improve the conservation and management of the remaining ecosystems and wildlife habitat.

WCS is now seeking a GIS Officer who is dynamic, well-organized, hard-working, and committed team player to provide key technical support to the WCS’s conservation programs. The GIS Officer will be required to maintain a comprehensive spatial database for the WCS target landscapes, and to provide technical assistance on GIS, and limited assistance on remote-sensing, across the program, and support spatial analyses, such as monitoring land-use change. The GIS Officer will be a part of Conservation Evidence Unit (CEU) and will support in the collection, storage, analysis, mapping, imaging, and communication of geospatial information.The position will be based in Bogor, with regular trips to the field to provide direct technical advice, monitoring and capacity building of field staff.
Position:              GIS Officer
Based in:             Bogor
Reports to:          Conservation Evidence Unit Junior Coordinator 

For more detailed information about Wildlife Conservation Society – Indonesia Program, the position and how to apply, please visit our website at:

GIS Officer

GIS Officer
WCS Indonesia

When you are interested on the above position and consider that you possess the necessary qualification, please submit your job application consisting of updated curriculum vitae, expected salary, three professional references and a cover letter explaining your interest towards this work and/or this organization to wcsindonesia@wcs.org.

Please fill the “subject” column of the e-mails in this format "GIS Officer_(name of candidate)"

Deadline: October 16th, 2019

No correspondence, only short-listed candidates will be notified