conservation scientist
ISCO: 2133. Skills: 74. Essential: 52.
Essential skills
- advise on nature conservation
- animal species
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- biology
- business management principles
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct educational activities
- conduct research across disciplines
- coordinate educational programmes
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop environmental policy
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- ecology
- ecosystem management
- educate people about nature
- educate the public about wildlife
- environmental legislation
- estimate duration of work
- evaluate research activities
- geographic information systems
- habitat restoration
- identify plants characteristics
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- manage contracts
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- measure trees
- mentor individuals
- operate open source software
- perform scientific research
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- reforestation
- respond to enquiries
- scientific literature
- speak different languages
- sustainable forest management
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- use ICT resources to solve work related tasks
- write scientific publications
- write work-related reports
Supporting skills
- advise on tree issues
- agroforestry
- apply blended learning
- chemistry
- climate smart agriculture
- conduct erosion control
- conduct sediment control
- conservation agriculture
- direct an artistic team
- forest ecology
- forestry regulations
- geography
- inspect trees
- liaise with cultural partners
- manage forest fires
- manage forests
- negotiate land access
- perform project management
- present exhibition
- supervise forestry workers
- support volunteers
- teach in academic or vocational contexts