Required Qualifications:
- A Master or diploma in an appropriate field: human rights / law / conservation / environment/ Social Sciences;
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in project/program environmental and social safeguards management and multi-stakeholder engagement in the fields of rural development and/or conservation for international development organizations;
- A track record of having worked directly with local communities in development, environment or education projects;
- Familiar with social dynamics, including as regards to indigenous peoples, in rural Cameroon is preferred;
- Experience in Central Africa is strongly desired. Required Skills and Competencies:
- Knowledge of human rights, indigenous people’s rights, grievance mechanisms and social safeguards;
- Good understanding of legal and policy requirements related to human rights, resource access, land rights, forest rights and wildlife protection in Cameroon;
- Expertise in gender sensitive/responsive program development
- Knowledge of challenges evolving at the nexus of conservation and natural resource use
- Knowledge and proven experiences in rural development;
- Experience in the preparation and implementation of work plans;
- Strong facilitation and negotiation skills at all levels;
- Good knowledge of Ms Office suite;
- Excellent skills in oral and written communication in French and English. Values & Behaviors:
- Aligns and identifies with the core values of the Government of Cameroon and the WWF organization: Courage, Integrity, Respect and Collaboration;
- Demonstrating behaviors: Strive for impact, listen deeply, collaborate openly and innovate fearlessly;
- Acts with highest integrity, accountability, and transparency.
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Mission of the Department
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council approved the 6-year Congo Basin
Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (CBSL IP) which encompasses a regional
component, managed by UNEP (United Nations Evironment Programme), and several
national child projects in the countries of Congo Basin. Cameroon child
project is managed by WWF-US as the GEF Agency, executed by the Ministry of
Environment Protection of Nature and Sustainable Development (MINEPDED) with
WWF Cameroon as Financial Administrator. It addresses the drivers of forest
loss and degradation through strategies aimed at strengthening the integrated
management of Cameroon’s globally important forest landscapes in the Congo
Basin, to secure its biological integrity and increase economic opportunities
and livelihoods for forest dependent people. Over the six-year project period,
these strategies will be advanced through the implementation of five
components:
- Mainstreaming integrated land use planning (LUP) and management;
- Improving management effectiveness and governance of high conservation value forests, and targeted interventions to protect their endangered species;
- Advancing sustainable forest management (SFM) through non-timber forest product (NTFP) and hardwood value chains;
- Increasing benefit generation from biodiversity through sustainable tourism development;
- Monitoring and evaluation (M&E), knowledge management (KM), and regional coordination.
The project targets key Cameroon trans-frontier forest landscape, which
stretches from the Rio Campo seascape on the coast, across the Cameroon
segments of the Tri-National Dja-Odzala-Minkebe (TRIDOM) and Sangha
Tri-National (TNS) landscapes towards the east. The target areas for project
interventions under each strategy are dependent on site-specific
considerations, including the potential to achieve meaningful results in the
six-year project period, baselines and available co-financing, and the ability
to manage all environmental and social safeguard considerations. Several
partners and sub-contractors will be involved or hired for the implementation
of different project tasks. Their contribution will need to be coordinated and
constantly monitored in relation to the environmental and social safeguards.
Given the complexity of the project, with the high number of partners and
sub-contractors to be involved in the implementation of different activities
at landscape level, we are looking for a Landscape Operational Assistant,
based within the landscapes and responsible for day-to-day coordination of
certain project activities at the local level. An Environmental and Social
Management Framework (ESMF), as well as Stakeholder Engagement Plan (ESP)are
associated to the project document. They will be implemented throughout the
project life in order to avoid, attenuate or mitigate environmental and social
safeguard risks, with technical support and constant follow up by a dynamic,
talented and committed ESS Officer.
Responsibilities
He/she will be responsible, among others, for:
- Monitor the application of safeguards procedures in accordance with the project’s safeguards documents in the implementation of project activities;
- Advise on and support the implementation of mitigation plans and flag any issues or gaps with the sub-contracting partner to ensure that proposed mitigation measures are implemented according to an agreed upon ESS mitigation implementation plan;
- Support the adaptive development and implementation of the project’s Stakeholder Engagement Plan, for the project activities, in alignment with WWF GEF Agency’s guidelines for the Implementation of the Policy on Stakeholder Engagement;
- Ensure the regular re-screening of stakeholders in project sites and the updating of the project’s Stakeholder Engagement Plan as necessary;
- Support consultation of IP (Baka/Bagyéli) through the FPIC process according to the ESMP for the project and in compliance with the WWF GEF Agency Standard on Indigenous Peoples;
- Ensure an inclusive approach is used when engaging with project stakeholders, following the Stakeholder Engagement Plan, and working closely with the Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist, provide support for the implementation of project activities contributing to the sustainable development of local communities and indigenous peoples;
- Maintain the database where all risk screenings, mitigation plans, reports, and reviews are stored, and provides public disclosure of project safeguards actions;
- Assist the project manager in the development of AWP/B to ensure the inclusion of the requirements from the ESMP;
- Prepare biannual reports on the implementation of the project ESMP;
- Work closely with the project M&E specialist to ensure proper monitoring of the ESMP, using an adaptive management approach;
- Support and collaborate closely with the work of independent consultants who may be hired to elaborate specific mitigation plans needed to address additional risks identified during project implementation.
Application closes on 30/09/2024
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