Africa Climate Careers Network's Climate Job Board

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Temporary Remote Sensing Officer (Internal Vacancy)

Center for International Forestry Research

Center for International Forestry Research

Nairobi, Kenya
Posted on Oct 2, 2025

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Various other tasks

  • Contribute to scientific papers.
  • Contribute to proposal development and writing.