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WWF Project Manager leading the Heart of Conservation Initiative for Indigenous and local communities. Coordinating global partners, grants, reporting, and biodiversity finance systems change.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the Global Coordination Unit’s support for Heart of Conservation Initiative partners and ensure successful delivery of all project components
- Supervise Global Coordination Unit staff and manage day-to-day project activities
- Coordinate with ten Component 1 Partners and partners and specialists across other components
- Review and approve annual work plans and budgets and provide technical inputs to partner work
- Lead delivery of Components 2 and 3, including the collective strengthening program and Youth Policy Leaders program
- Support delivery of Components 4 and 5
- Monitor and evaluate project activities and results against project agreements, annual plans, and the results framework
- Manage regular meetings with partners and workflow for the Indigenous Global Steering Committee
- Develop annual work plans and budgets with sub-grantees and partners
- Oversee procurement, expenditure, monitoring plans, workshops, website maintenance, and communications strategy
- Support implementation visits, learning visits, reviews, evaluations, and annual reflection workshops
- Troubleshoot challenges and maintain the project risk register and mitigation measures
- Prepare and execute the project exit plan and ensure sustainability of project results
- Prepare semi-annual project progress reports, workshop reports, quarterly financial reports, co-finance reporting, and the project close report
- Provide quality assurance for project activities, grants, reports, and other deliverables
- Coordinate co-financed projects, stakeholder engagement, partnerships, and additional co-financing
- Represent the project at conferences, meetings, and workshops
- Travel internationally for approximately one week on a quarterly basis
Requirements:
- 10 years of technical working experience, including at least five years of project management experience
- Bachelor’s Degree; post-graduate degree in a relevant field preferred
- At least five years’ experience supporting and working in solidarity with Indigenous people and local community organizations
- Demonstrated track record of culturally sensitive and respectful, community-centered collaboration with Indigenous Peoples and local communities
- Ability to interact with Indigenous peoples and local community representatives, senior government, NGO, business, and donor staff
- Experience with the Convention on Biological Diversity and/or other multilateral agreements and processes, focusing on biodiversity, Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights, and finance
- Experience delivering technical and financial reporting to donor agencies on large projects
- Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder and multi-country projects
- Experience leading a team of staff and coordinating sub-grant partners, ideally across multiple time zones and cultures
- Technical experience and knowledge in Indigenous-led territorial stewardship, community-based sustainable development, or related thematic areas
- Written and spoken fluency in English required
- Advanced proficiency in Spanish, French, or Portuguese highly preferred
- Applicants for Brazil or Kenya must be nationals legally authorized to work in Brazil or Kenya
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the job's location
- Strategic collaboration and leadership skills
- Intercultural and adaptive management skills
- Results-oriented project management skills
- Cross-cultural communication skills
Benefits:
- Paid relocation: None
- Employment visa sponsorship is not provided for Brazil or Kenya
- WWF-Cambodia may be able to support visa sponsorship and relocation costs based on available budget for eligible South and Southeast Asian nationals willing to relocate to Cambodia
- Equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals
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