Forestry GIS and Carbon Assessment Specialist

Catholic Relief Services; Malaybalay, Talaingod; Hybrid; PHP 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Philippines seeks a GIS Specialist to support land eligibility assessments, LU/LC analysis, and spatial outputs for prefeasibility and project design.

You will collect, manage, analyze, and visualize geospatial data, map biodiversity impacts, and help ensure carbon project opportunities align with standards.

Qualifications

• Support land eligibility and suitability assessments using geospatial data.
• Analyze land-use/land-cover changes and stratification for projects.
• Produce spatial outputs for prefeasibility, feasibility, and design.

Responsibilities

• Collect, manage, analyze, and visualize geospatial data.
• Feed results into carbon yield calculations and biodiversity mapping.
• Support project design and investment-readiness activities.

Skills

GIS

Geospatial data analysis

Mapping

Tools

Geospatial tools

Job description

About CRS

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works in around 100 countries to save, protect, and transform lives, serving people in need regardless of race, religion, or nationality. Through trusted local partnerships, CRS delivers relief and development programs in emergency response, disaster risk reduction, health, agriculture, education, community savings, livelihoods, and peacebuilding.

CRS began working in the Philippines in 1945, making it the longest-running continuous CRS country program in the world. Today, CRS Philippines implements programs in emergency response and recovery, disaster risk reduction, climate resilience, livelihoods, and peace and development. With more than 70 staff across Manila, Cotabato City, Tagbilaran City, Iloilo City, Virac, and Malaybalay City, CRS works closely with church and civil society partners, government agencies, and other organizations to serve vulnerable communities across the country.

Innovative Climate Financing - Philippines Carbon Finance Pilot

is an 18-month initiative (April 2026 – September 2027) which seeks to assess and advance the readiness of indigenous peoples’ ancestral domains in Bukidnon and Davao del Norte for participation in high-integrity forest carbon markets while delivering biodiversity, livelihood, and governance co-benefits. It likewise aims to support overall investments readiness by ensuring robust technical requirements are complied with, particularly on establishing the baseline and baseline, and calculation of project removals in line with the industry’s standards. CRS works with the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) as the local implementing partner, the IP organizations, government agencies, and local stakeholders, to support IP governance strengthening, forest restoration, agroforestry and livelihoods skills strengthening, FPIC processes, biodiversity assessments, land and carbon suitability assessments, safeguarding, and the development of investment-ready carbon project opportunities.

Given the highly spatial nature of carbon project development, a

GIS Specialist

is essential to support the collection, management, analysis, and visualization of geospatial data.

Job Summary

The GIS Specialist provides critical technical support in assessing land eligibility and suitability, analyzing land-use and land-cover (LU/LC) and land cover changes (LCC), ex ante LC/LU classification, stratification and mapping, feeding the result to the calculation of carbon yield, , mapping biodiversity and environmental, and producing spatial outputs needed for prefeasibility, feasibility analysis, and project design.