IUCN, represented by its Bangladesh Country Office, is implementing a project entitled “Developing Bangladesh National Red List of Plants and `Developing Management Strategy of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) of plants in Selected Protected Areas (PAs) Project” funded by the SUFAL Project of Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD) and supported by the Bangladesh National Herbarium (BNH). The project looks to assess 1000 plants species of Bangladesh and prepare a Red List of Plants of Bangladesh following the latest Guideline for Application of the IUCN Red List Criteria. The project will also prepare a set of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) of Plant management strategy for the selected Protected Areas to reduce their impact on local forest biodiversity.

Under the overall guidance of the Country Representative and the Programme Coordinator of IUCN Bangladesh, and under the direct supervision of the Senior Programme Officer (Red list and IAS of Plants Coordinator), the Programme Assistant (GIS, IT and Database) (Red List and IAS of Plants) will undertake following specific responsibilities:

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

1. Assist in successfully implementing all project activities under the of the project in accordance to the project agreement between the donor and following instruction of the project manager;
2. Conduct surveys to collect spatial and temporal GIS-based data from the field for the project
3. Analyze data collected from the field and produce GIS based maps for the project
4. Support the project manager, team, and consultants in writing the Red List books, IAS of plants Management Strategy, reports and articles for regarding the project by providing GIS based data and maps;
5. Support the project team, consultants and stakeholder in conducting field work and data collection;
6. Provide support in organizing of workshops, training programmes and seminar regarding Invasive and Alien Species process for volunteers, consultants and other stakeholder,
7. Assist to ensure that all project reports and all other committed deliverables are produced, submitted and accepted by the donor in a timely manner as per the Agreement;
8. Undertake any other tasks that may be assigned by the Country Representative, the Programme Coordinator of IUCN Bangladesh and project manager, from time to time.