New August 2021:

Deakin University’s Blue Carbon Lab is a multi-disciplinary research group at the forefront of global efforts to sustainably manage and use nature for improving lives and livelihoods. We specialise in nature-based solutions to climate change though actions that protect, govern, and restore freshwater, coastal, and ocean ecosystems. We have collaborative partnerships and projects across 30 countries and are recognised as world-leaders in science underpinning natural climate solutions.

We are looking to expand our team (currently 25 researchers – including 14 PhD-level scientists) and we are seeking experienced researchers with skills in one or more of the following areas:

• Project management and grantsmanship: liaising with clients, reviewing literature, writing reports and grant proposals, and strong oral presentation, organisational and leadership skills.
• Spatial science and mathematical modelling: GIS, spatial and distribution modelling, and remote sensing. Ideally >2-years’ experience – including dealing with large datasets, elaborating spatially-explicit data, conducting simple and complex modelling, and produce maps and statistics.
• Science communication and outreach: Experience running citizen science projects and outreach across social media platforms (e.g., websites, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn).
• Environmental impact assessments: Experience in assessing impacts of proposed developments on the environment, including interrelated socio-economic, cultural and health impacts.
• Field coordination: Experience managing large field campaigns (ideally, blue and teal carbon), including working in remote locations. Preference for someone with experience in fieldwork involving boating, snorkelling, and diving.
• Environmental economics: Experience or ability to upscale rapidly in: undertaking socio-economic surveys to understand the benefits of species and ecosystems to a range of stakeholders, compiling ecosystem accounts, and valuing ecosystem services, including tourism and recreational value of species or ecosystems. Desired skills in cost-benefit analysis, econometrics, and non-market valuation techniques such as choice-modelling and contingent valuation.

If you think you are suited to any of these roles, please send your CV and a statement of suitability (of 1-page max) to micheli.costa@deakin.edu.au. Please note that whilst we still accept applications from any persons interested in our roles, due to the impacts of COVID-19, we are currently prioritising applications from those with current working rights in Australia and who are not affected by travel restrictions. Please see the latest updates to Australia’s immigration and border arrangements during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak: https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/.