Project Overview
Project Description
Through this project, Resilience Force aims to strengthen its capacity to analyze and visualize wildfire risk and resilience data using layering map tools such as ArcGIS or CalTopo. The fellow would help develop layered maps that combine relevant spatial datasets, including fire severity zones, population density areas, vegetation and forest cover, previous fire footprints, economic indicators, and jurisdictional boundaries. These layers will support a more precise understanding of high-risk regions, workforce gaps, and potential intervention sites.
Secondly, the Fellow will provide hands-on support and training on a spatial analysis platform, helping the Resilience Force team build baseline skills to independently access, manipulate, and interpret geospatial data.
The final outputs will inform Resilience Force’s future funding proposals, workforce planning, and climate adaptation strategies in wildfire-prone states like California and Colorado.
Impact
This project directly advances Resilience Force’s mission to build a strong, equitable resilience workforce by improving the ability to identify priority areas for investment and demonstrate data-driven impacts in wildfire mitigation, adaptation, and recovery. This project’s work will strengthen the foundation for data-driven wildfire adaptation and workforce resilience, generating both social and environmental benefits.
Socially, this project supports decent work and economic growth (SDG 8) by helping design equitable, well-paying jobs in wildfire mitigation and resilience infrastructure, and reducing inequalities (SDG 10) by ensuring those opportunities reach immigrant, low-income, and displaced workers who make up much of the resilience workforce. It also advances sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11) and climate action (SDG 13) by enabling smarter, localized planning to reduce wildfire damage, protect lives and property, and strengthen community preparedness.
By integrating spatial analysis into our program design, Resilience Force can direct training, resources, and partnerships toward high-risk zones and build both ecological resilience and economic opportunity.
Eligibility Criteria
Skills / Experience:
- Required:
- Geospatial Data Analysis and Visualization
- Research
- Technical Writing and Documentation
- Desired:
- Experience in data layering, spatial modeling, and map-based storytelling
- A background in environmental science, geography, climate resilience, or data analytics would be highly relevant, along with proficiency in integrating datasets from multiple public sources (e.g., CAL FIRE, U.S. Forest Service, Census Bureau).
Software Proficiency:
- ArcGIS or CalTopo, or similar
Discipline:
- Environmental Science or Geology & Earth Sciences, or similar
Preferred Fellow Local Experience (all projects can be completed remotely):
- N/A.
Preferred Timezone (when the Fellow should be available for meetings):
- Compatibility with Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5)
