{"id":26619,"date":"2016-03-01T12:33:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T10:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistsouthafrica.com\/?p=26619"},"modified":"2016-11-11T12:40:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T10:40:54","slug":"csir-internship-in-social-ecosystem-systems-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistsouthafrica.com\/csir-internship-in-social-ecosystem-systems-research.html","title":{"rendered":"CSIR Internship in Social Ecosystem Systems Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This 1 Year Contract Position forms part of a newly established collaboration between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Research Group at the CSIR and the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST) at Stellenbosch University.<\/p>\n<p>The Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services research group are focussed on ecosystem service assessment, social-ecological systems analysis, spatial planning and analysis for ecosystem management, multifunctional landscape design, and building resilience under conditions of global change.<\/p>\n<p>This is a vibrant interdisciplinary group with extensive national and international collaborative networks.<\/p>\n<p>The Complex Systems Transition (CST) aims to provide research-based foresight on the dynamics of global environmental and societal change, and how transitions to sustainable social-ecological systems may be achieved, specifically in the southern African context.<\/p>\n<p>The CST builds on a strong history of transdisciplinary research and complexity studies, and hosts several leading international scientists and a vibrant group of students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>The incumbent should have a keen interest in sustainability issues, the ability to integrate across disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>They should enjoy working collaboratively across different disciplines on actionable science.<\/p>\n<p>They should be interested in developing a research career focussed on understanding topics such as complex social-ecological systems, biodiversity and ecosystem services, risk and resilience, co-learning and actionable science, traps and transformations, resilience, regime and paradigm shifts in society.<\/p>\n<p><u>Key responsibilities:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Perform research tasks within the fields of social ecological systems, biodiversity and change<\/li>\n<li>This includes the manipulation and analysis of large scale datasets with many of these containing spatial data<\/li>\n<li>Develop research proposals and report writing<\/li>\n<li>Assist with collaborative meetings and events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>Requirements:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An Honours degree (preferably Masters) in an area related to social ecological systems analysis with an interest of pursuing a Masters or Doctoral degree in similar or same field.<\/li>\n<li>Analytically and numerically astute in analysing either environmental or social dataset.<\/li>\n<li>Understanding of spatial analysis and mapping, and manipulation and use of large datasets in conducting qualitative empirical research<\/li>\n<li>Self-motivated, with good communication skills, and interest in working in an applied research environment across disciplines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Should you meet the above requirements, please email your CV to <a href=\"mailto:jobapplications@csir.co.za\">jobapplications@csir.co.za<\/a> with your name and surname, position title and reference number on the subject line, (e.g. John Smith: Financial Administrative Officer: Reference No: 306120).<\/p>\n<p>Closing date: 13 March 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csir.co.za\/recruitment\/doc1\/Internship_advert_Patricks_306535.pdf\" target=\"_new\"><u><strong>Click Here to CSIR INTERNSHIP LINK<\/strong><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1 Year Contract Position forms part of a newly established collaboration between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Research Group at the CSIR and the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[374],"tags":[1860],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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