European Commission
Project Officer - Science for Policy Researcher - Support to the Africa Knowledge Platform
Description
The current vacancy is in the Directorate for Sustainable Resources. Its mission is to provide independent scientific evidence to support the development, implementation, evaluation and coherence of EU policies, mainly in the areas of agriculture and rural development, international development cooperation, environment and climate change, blue growth and fisheries, bioeconomy, industry and trade.
The vacancy is within Unit Nature Conservation and Observations. The mission of this unit is to support EU policies by providing relevant scientific data, methods and tools, and by collating available knowledge in the field of environment, space and international development. The Unit focuses on transversal activities that require cross-sectoral integration of scientific evidence, paying particular attention to the identification of knowledge gaps and technical needs in the areas of nature conservation, Earth observation and global sustainable development. The Unit also plays a key role in international dialogues and conventions in these domains.
The successful candidate will join the team in charge of the Africa Knowledge Platform (AKP). The AKP team develops and applies novel and cross-thematic geospatial tools for analysing data and information on social, economic and environmental development. It is adopted in the framework of international partnership programmes for the green transition in Africa, and in particular, the Regional Centres of Excellence for the Green Transition programme (ArcX).
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