DRC: Project Director, Maiko Landscape
Jul 25, 2022
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Fauna & Flora International
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Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is the world’s oldest international wildlife conservation organisation. We have been quietly shaping and influencing conservation practice since our foundation in 1903. Our focus is on protecting biodiversity (the diversity of life on Earth), which underpins healthy ecosystems and is critical for the life-support systems that humans and all other species rely on.
We are seeking a highly competent and effective leader, who, with a wider national and global FFI team, will work closely alongside DRC’s protected area authority – the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN), and local stakeholders, to lead this ambitious programme of work.
You will have a proven track record in leading, developing and delivering effective conservation or development programmes within a politically and conflict sensitive environment, in Africa. You will have proven expertise in building relationships and negotiating agreements with a variety of stakeholders, and a critical awareness of the importance of environmental and social safeguards in order to design an approach based on global best practice. Ideally, you will have experience of collaborative and integrated approaches to protected area management at scale, community based natural resource management, and given the challenges in eastern DRC, conflict resolution and/or peace building.
Excellent leadership and people management skills are essential to the role to ensure a professional and motivated team that delivers effectively against programme aims, objectives and timelines. The role also requires a skilled and credible communicator, who is confident in developing and managing relationships with different government divisions, communities, partner organisations and other relevant stakeholders. With a structured but adaptable approach to your work, and a clear focus on results and impacts you will be able to help FFI drive effective and collaborative biodiversity protection in this critically important forest landscape.
Please view the following document for further details of the position and how to apply:
The closing date for applications is Sunday, 31 July 2022.