Second call for application: Senior Researcher and team leader “Social Impact of Climate Change” at the WASCAL Competence Center in Ouagadougou

The senior researcher will recruit and build the team “Social impact of climate change” at the WASCAL Competence Center in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso where he/she will support an interdisciplinary group of six teams as team leader:

• Social impact of climate change
• Climate change economics
• Biodiversity and ecosystem services
• Landscape ecology and land use change models
• Hydrology and climate models
• Meteorology and climate models

For the research team “Social impact of climate change” is in the recruitment stage, the senior researcher will need high motivation, creativity and proven experience in the guidance of research teams. He/she will conduct and support research on social impacts and politics of climate change and develop methodologies for monitoring socio-ecological systems. Besides his/her own research, the appointee will liaise with African and German partners to develop and implement a socio-economic observations network in the West African project region. He/She will closely work with the WASCAL social-economic research team at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn as well as the vulnerability assessment team at the United Nations University in Bonn/Germany.
The appointment will start as soon as possible in 2013 and lasts 3 years. WASCAL offers a competitive remuneration package paid in US Dollars or Euro. Special contract conditions will be negotiated in case of professors who need to take sabbaticals or leaves from their university to join the WASCAL Competence Center.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree in social anthropology, development sociology, social geography, or political sciences
• A minimum of 7 years post‐doctoral work experience
• Proven leadership of research teams, supervision of students
• A compelling publication record in the area of development, e.g. climate change, social environmental studies, environmental politics
• Specific interest in international research preferably with work experience in West Africa
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and French
• Following skills are required: qualitative research methods and experience in interdisciplinary work
• Other skills are of advantage: quantitative research methods, GIS skills
• Very good organizational and time management skills including project planning and evaluation, staff recruitment
• Ability and willingness to work in an interdisciplinary, multicultural environment
• High degree of initiative and self‐motivation

Duty station

The selected candidate will be based at the WASCAL Competence Center, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso with travels across West Africa.

Applications until position is filled

E-mail applications including a letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, list of publications, as well as names and addresses of three referees should be sent to:
Prof. Dr. Paul Vlek (Executive Director of WASCAL), p.vlek@uni‐bonn.de
and Dr. Irit Eguavoen (WASCAL social-economic team at ZEF), eguavoen@uni-bonn.de

Disclaimer

WASCAL is an equal opportunity employer and particularly welcomes applications from women candidates.

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