Project Manager – HCI
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WWF Project Manager leading the Heart of Conservation Initiative for Indigenous and local communities. Managing 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 provide day-to-day project management
- Coordinate with ten Component 1 partners and partners and specialists across additional components
- Review and approve annual work plans and budgets and provide technical inputs to partner activities
- Lead delivery of Components 2 and 3, including collective capacity strengthening and the Youth Policy Leaders program
- Support delivery of Components 4 and 5
- Monitor and evaluate project activities and results against the CERDoc, Grant Agreement, Annual Work Plan and Budget, and Results Framework
- Manage workflow for the Indigenous Global Steering Committee
- Develop annual global work plans and budgets with sub-grantees and partners
- Oversee procurement, expenditures, work-plan progress, monitoring plans, risks, and mitigation measures
- Organize inception workshops, project workshops, meetings, learning visits, reviews, and evaluations
- Manage the project website and communications strategy
- Support annual reflection workshops and adaptive management
- Prepare and execute the project exit plan and ensure sustainability of project results
- Prepare project progress, workshop, financial, co-finance, and close reports
- Supervise recruitment and directly managed staff and consultants
- Provide quality assurance for project activities, sub-grants, reports, and project outputs
- Coordinate co-financed projects, partnerships, stakeholder engagement, gender equality, and social inclusion
- Represent the project at conferences, meetings, and workshops
- Undertake week-long international travel approximately quarterly
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
- Demonstrated 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 similar, 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 the thematic area of the project, such as Indigenous-led territorial stewardship and community-based sustainable development
- Written and spoken fluency in English required
- Advanced proficiency in Spanish, French, or Portuguese highly preferred
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the job's location
- For Brazil or Kenya, applicants must be nationals legally authorized to work in Brazil or Kenya
- For Cambodia, eligible applicants include nationals from South and Southeast Asian countries willing to relocate to Cambodia
Benefits:
- Paid relocation: None
- Employment visa sponsorship and relocation are not provided for Brazil or Kenya
- WWF-Cambodia may be able to support visa sponsorship and relocation costs based on available budget
- Equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals regardless of age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law


















