Junior data scientist - supply chain transparency
Stift The Stockholm Environment Institute, Sei / Marknadsföringsjobb / Stockholm
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hela Sverige Visa alla jobb hos Stift The Stockholm Environment Institute, Sei i Stockholm Are you interested in working in an international setting with people from different organisational and knowledge backgrounds working together to tackle major environmental and sustainability challenges? SEI is recruiting a highly motivated Research Associate with a strong background in data processing and analysis. The successful candidate will contribute to an exciting and innovative development in global supply chain sustainability - the Transparency for Sustainable Economies (Trase) platform (www.trase.earth). Trase is a pioneering sustainability platform that enables governments, companies, investors and others to better understand and address the environmental and social impacts linked to their supply chains. Its approach draws on vast sets of production, trade and customs data, for the first time laying bare the flows of globally-traded commodities - such as palm oil, soya, beef and timber - at scale. Trase is a direct response to the ambitious commitments made by leaders across sectors to achieve deforestation-free supply chains by 2020 - and the urgent need this creates for a breakthrough in assessing and monitoring sustainability performance.
The successful candidate will be part of a team of researchers working on the technical development of the Trase platform, including data acquisition, preparation, database maintenance, as well as research on land-use change and sustainability inspired by Trase.
More specifically, the candidate will play a substantive role in i) further developing the back-end of the Trase platform, including helping to develop the SEI-PCS tool (Spatially Explicit Information on Production to Consumption Systems), which allows for linking global consumption of traded commodities with regions of production at sub-national scales; and ii) developing and maintaining a database that includes trade and production data, as well as indicators on the social and environmental sustainability of both production regions and supply chain actors.
Key responsibilities include:
• Support ongoing efforts to improve and expand the SEI-PCS model to new countries and commodities, helping acquire, archive, format and process large datasets on production, trade and different measures of environmental and social impact and sustainability performance
• Helping design, implement and manage an online and interactive and data visualization platform (Trase) for mapping international supply chains and assessing associated sustainability impacts and opportunities
• Support colleagues in the ongoing development of the database and analytical approach that underpins
• Provide quantitative support to an exciting range of other work at related to natural resource use and sustainable development (ca. 20% of the candidate 's time)
Requirements:
The applicant should have a strong interest in data science and quantitative analyses to help understand some of the major environmental and sustainability challenges the world is facing in the 21st Century. No previous working-experience is required but the candidate is expected to be capable of working both independently and in team in a highly flexible and exciting research environment, whilst also being comfortable investing time as needed in basic data preparation and processing routines. The candidate will participate in research publications, international workshops and a range of activities developed by the research team behind Trase.
SEI is an independent, international research institute founded in 1989. Its mission is to support decision-making and induce change towards sustainable development around the world by providing integrative knowledge that bridges science and policy in the field of environment and development.
SEI has close to 200 staff members working at research centres in six countries around the world. Our centres are located in the United Kingdom (SEI-York and SEI-Oxford), the United States (SEI-USA in Boston with sub-units in Seattle and locations in California), in Estonia (SEI Tallinn Centre), in Bangkok, Thailand (SEI's Asia Centre) and in Nairobi, Kenya (SEI's Africa Centre). SEI headquarters are located in Stockholm, Sweden, where we also have the Stockholm Centre with approximately 60 staff members.
Publiceringsdatum2017-02-07Så ansöker duSista dag att ansöka är 2017-03-05
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