Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- At least a master’s degree or equivalent in natural resource management, conservation, agriculture or related fields.
- At least 10 years’ experience in natural resource management, forest or agriculture sectors, including in Central Africa;
- Senior experience with international and/or transboundary initiatives
- Previous experience with WWF a plus;
- Skilled communicator, fluent in English and French, and ability to translate information and work across disciplines;
- Strong MS Office skills, including Word and Excel, and on line communication tools;
- Ability to command the confidence of people at all levels of seniority;
- An enthusiastic team player, with experience of collaborative working. Required Skills and Competencies:
- Proven experience in effectively animating working groups;
- Interpersonal skills and ability to deal with multiple teams located in multiple locations (virtual teams);
- Excellent negotiation, diplomacy and lobbying skills. WWF’s Values & Behaviors:
- Able to demonstrate WWF behaviors in ways of working: strive for impact, listen deeply, collaborate openly and innovate fearlessly.
- Aligns and identifies with the core values of the WWF organization: Courage, Integrity, Respect and Collaboration.
Mission of the Department
The Tri-National Dja-Odzala-Minkebe (TRIDOM) Landscape covers nearly 10% of the Congo Basin rainforests (178,000 km²) in Cameroon, Gabon, and Congo-Brazzaville, and currently includes 11 protected areas (in total 42,319 km² or 24% of TRIDOM). This Landscape is one of the priority Landscapes for WWF because it holds the largest elephant population in the Congo Basin (estimated at up to 40,000, though rapidly declining) and harbors most of the biodiversity typically found in central Africa’s rainforests, including both western gorillas and central chimpanzees (estimated at up to 140,000). TRIDOM has 250,000 inhabitants (typically 1 inh/km² average density) including an estimated 10,000 Baka indigenous people. With a forest cover of 97% and a deforestation rate of 0.2% per decennium (1990-2010) it is one of the most intact forest blocks in the Congo Basin. TRIDOM has low road density and few easily navigable rivers. However, the development of a growing logging road network and public road improvement have led to many emerging threats such as artisanal mining, palm oil and cocoa expansion, logging, and ivory poaching. The WWF Network comes together to support this priority Landscape Initiative.
Responsibilities
Strategic direction:
- Responsible for coordinating the collaborative redesign of the TRIDOM strategy;
- Deliver the WWF TRIDOM program’s objectives with technical support from the respective WWF Country Offices, WWF Network partners and technical experts;
- Act as the focal point for engaging with relevant WWF entities, government agencies, donors and partners; Management and Implementation:
- Line management of TRIDOM regional staff, performance management, development and training needs and opportunities for supervised staff;
- Supervise the preparation of the TRIDOM annual work plan and budget;
- Provide leadership to ensure the delivery of the activities specified in the TRIDOM work plan including timely reporting;
- Coordinate collaboration between the TRIDOM program and the wider WWF network; Partnerships & Fundraising:
- Identify and establish strategic partnerships with organizations and institutions (conservation NGOs, development NGOs, research institutes, universities etc.);
- Invite and import innovation relevant to TRIDOM from inside and outside the WWF network;
- Implement the fundraising strategy and coordinate fundraising activities among WWF entities active in TRIDOM;
- Manage the organization of visit by donors and VIPs to TRIDOM. Communication and knowledge management:
- Together with the Congo Basin communication team, develop and implement a communication strategy for TRIDOM; In collaboration with the various WWF database managers, ensure the setting up of a TRIDOM database;
- Writing technical briefings and papers on major issues in TRIDOM, so as to raise awareness among partners, donors and stakeholders; Governance:
- Secretariat of the TRIDOM steering Group, prepare and submit written reports including quarterly status updates.
- Member of the Congo Basin Support Group. Fundraising
- Develop and implement a fundraising strategy for the TRIDOM program;
- Develop and implement a funding tracking tool for the TRIDOM program;
- Write proposals and coordinate fundraising activities among WWF entities active in TRIDOM;
- Promote the TRIDOM program nationally and internationally;
- Establish and manage relationships with champions and donors of TRIDOM.
- Manage the organization of visit by donors and VIPs to TRIDOM. Communication and knowledge management
- Establish a TRIDOM communication team in collaboration with the three national offices and ROA.
- Together with the TRIDOM communication team, develop and implement a communication strategy for TRIDOM;
- Distribute information on TRIDOM through regular newsletters;
- Produce an annual TRIDOM report for external communication, including national governments;
- In collaboration with the various WWF database managers, ensure the setting up of a TRIDOM database;
- Ensure timely submission of technical reports against the approved work plan and budget plan, as per donor requirements.
- Writing technical briefings and papers on major issues in TRIDOM, so as to raise awareness among partners, donors and stakeholders; Governance
- Secretariat of the TRIDOM Steering Group, prepare and submit written reports including quarterly status updates.
- Member of the Congo Basin Support Group.
- Member of the ROA Landscapes Group (in preparation).
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