Deadline for Applications: 23rd of May 2022

Location: Remote (Scotland or UK-wide preferred)

Contract: Freelance

FTE: 0.5FTE (part-time) 6 months with potential for extension

Pay: £35-40K (pay at yearly full-time FTE)

About Us

Trees as Infrastructure establishes nature as a critical part of urban infrastructure, enabling investment, profitability and sustainability. The project has been growing and evolving in the last 2 years, and we are gearing up to launch our first pilot in the upcoming year. Read more about it here.

TreesAI is part of Dark Matter Labs and in the context of climate breakdown and technological disruption, Dark Matter Labs focuses on accelerating the societal transition towards collective care, shared agency, long-termism and interconnectedness. Our daily work ranges from policy and regulation to finance and data, from governance and democratic participation to organisational culture and identity.

We organise our work around what this transition needs, and the things we want to see in the world. To keep that transparent, we undertake open work in collaborative partnerships to provoke alternative visions of the future, designing how they might look in practice, and experimenting in context to reveal how they could work and enable the necessary change. More about us here.


About This Role

Dark Matter Labs is building on its work, with new programmes, locations, teams, systems and approaches being built. We are looking to recruit an amazing person to hold hydrological geospatial mapping and analysis with a focus on green infrastructure and Nature-based Solutions (specifically but not limited to forestry) to design a methodology to map and assess the impact of green infrastructure at city scale.

The scope of this work is to map a variety of city-wide datasets (e.g. canopy cover, demographic data, flood maps, green infrastructure interventions) to build a comprehensive understanding of how the city's green infrastructure supports flood mitigation (and peak flow reduction) and helps address other social and climate-related risks;

In this role your focus will be split across some key areas of work: