Ecologists, Naturalists, and Taxonomic Experts for Uganda (remote / flexible / part-time role)

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Job Title: Ecologists, Naturalists, and Taxonomic Experts for Uganda

Responsibilities

• Identification of species from lowland Uganda through high-resolution images (plants and/or mammals) or acoustic data (birds, bats, and/or frogs) shared online.
• Support the design of biodiversity surveys and help train machine learning models by annotating image and/or acoustic data.
• Provide feedback on data collection methods to improve automated identification using machine learning.

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About the Company

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Your expertise will help protect nature by providing robust evidence, and together you will build the most detailed set of annotated, species-level biodiversity data ever compiled, supporting the mission of protecting and restoring biodiversity.

Required skills and qualifications:

• Expertise in identifying birds, bats, frogs, plants, or mammals from acoustic data or high-resolution images.
• Ability to add species labels to audio or image files to name the species present.
• Experience in biodiversity or ecological expertise relevant to lowland Uganda.
• Willingness to complete a short trial exercise to demonstrate expertise.

Compensation and perks:

• Paid role with hourly rate agreed based on your needs and experience.
• Fully remote work that can be done online from anywhere, at any time.
• Flexible project-based work ranging from 5 to 40 hours per week based on availability.

Pivotal Future is a UK-based biodiversity data and analytics company that believes good business must be good for nature. Their mission is to provide real nature intelligence to create a better future by capturing, organizing, and analyzing biodiversity data using remote sensing technologies and machine learning, quality-checked by ecosystem experts.