Researcher Sustainable Landscape Management Officer for the GCF Knuckles project

Science production

• Support the overall research and project implementation on SLM (Sustainable Landscape management) and the land use planning process.
  
• Support other project staff on stakeholder mapping of potential contributors/users in sustainable land management.
  
• Collect compile preprocess and manage spatial and nonspatial data in connection with SLM and land use planning process at institutional and watershed level through interviews FGDs workshops and technical analysis.
  
• Be informed on primary (i.e. ecosystem functions and services: water carbon and biodiversity) and secondary data collection (i.e. ecosystem functions and services: water carbon and biodiversity High conservation value (HCV) degraded areas fire risk areas and other environmental hazards climate; climate and hydrology; watershed characteristics.
  
• Lead and facilitate series of FGDs process at watershed and subbasin level on issues of soil and water management climateresilience land use and forestry practices and restoration.
  
• Collaborate with the other staff to organize workshops training FGDs and other meeting forum related to SLM and landuse planning.
  
• Contribute to the development of governance structure for land development and other development processes at watershed and divisional/district level if requested.
  
• Facilitate collaboration among the stakeholder institutions local government local stakeholders and experts appointed in developing implementing and evaluation on SLM and land use planning process.
  
• Engage with government and nongovernment organizations at watershed and divisional/district level in many topics related to SLM and other local development initiatives associated with sustainable land uses.
  
• Support in developing contextappropriate innovation platforms at community level in the project area.
  
• Liaising with PMU staff and SIDT managers supporting necessary program planning development and implementation under sustainable land management in the project area.
  
• Support to develop and promote adoption of dashboard and information system of SLM.
  
• Provide support on training materials and guidelines on SLM.
  

Human capital

• Support in research activities for students and interns on SLM including facilitating and evaluating their work.
  
• Contribute to strengthening the capacity of partners on SLM at national and subnational levels including facilitating and organizing training workshops and other events in collaboration with partners and country teams.
  

Gamechanging solutions

• Represent the organization in engaging with public private and smallholder farmers in various events as a resource person participant and other relevant capacities particularly on SLM.
  
• Contribute to local and national discussions on SLM of expertise in close coordination with the supervisor and Sri Lanka senior researchers.
  

Structural capital

• Support the daily management and implementation of the project activities especially on sustainable land management.
  
• Identify and inform ICRAF project manager and PI on the successes challenges and lessons learned from the planned activities.
  
• Monitor the activities regularly and contribute to project reporting monitoring and evaluation in collaboration with other team members and project partners.
  
• Support the project team leaders to ensure accountability processes to donor(s) by contributing to timely submissions of reports and activities on the ground.
  
• Participate in periodical adaptive management reviews of implementation.
  
• Maintain records on stakeholder engagements (e.g. prior notice list of attendances and contacts gallery of photos agenda & minutes preparation).
  
• Track the followup actions of the decisions taken in the meetings.
  
• Provide monthly summary reports comprising type of engagement/meeting decisions taken progress of follow up actions and remarks and contribute to the annual donor reporting as required.