The RSPB Centre for Conservation Science is looking for a social scientist to work on a new Darwin Initiative-funded project in support of our Gola Rainforest conservation programme in Sierra Leone. Specifically, the project addresses whether agricultural interventions to improve food security can be succesfully contractually linked to reduced deforestation pressure on high conservation value community forest (HCV-CF) This person will work with university and in-country project partners to design, test and refine survey protocols for use in local languages, train local staff in data collection protocols (using quantitative and qualitative methods), lead on management of a programme of focus groups and social surveys to collect qualitative data, analyse quantitative and qualitative data