Conservation Capacity Development Officer

Would you want to assist restore St Helena’s extraordinary cloud forest? Are you an important crew
builder? If that’s the case, this might be the chance for you.

We now have an thrilling alternative for somebody to play a crucial supporting function with our lead
associate (St Helena Authorities) to ship an extremely thrilling collaborative,
partnership-based undertaking to scale up cloud forest restoration efforts on the island of St
Helena, a UK Abroad Territory within the south Atlantic.

The cloud forest is safeguarded within the ‘Peaks Nationwide Park’, however solely 16 hectares of outdated
progress cloud forest fragments stay on the very best peaks and steepest slopes. The remaining
cloud forest is arguably the only most necessary website anyplace on British soil for species:
a minimum of 250 distinctive species are discovered totally or practically totally in these fragments. This
represents 1/sixth of all distinctive British wildlife. Restoring the forest is crucial for local weather
change as a lot of the island’s water comes from catchments within the central Peaks space of the
island, and the bulk (60%) of that is derived from mist seize, which is most successfully
achieved by the native cloud forest.

Via a extremely collaborative course of, a project-partnership has been fashioned with funding
secured from the UK Authorities’s International, Commonwealth and Improvement Workplace (FCDO) to ship
the island’s collective imaginative and prescient for the longer term; aiming to revive St Helena’s iconic cloud
forest for wildlife, water safety and for folks.

The Conservation Capability Improvement Officer (St Helena) is a key crew facilitation function. You
will:

• be liable for supporting St Helena Authorities’s Nature Conservation Division (NCD)
  with the cloud forest restoration in one of many Nationwide Conservation Areas.
• assist catalyse the implementation of the administration plan for the Peaks Nationwide Park working
  with St Helena’s extremely expert and inspirational habitat restoration groups alongside key roles
  inside Authorities and the Partnership.
• work with the related groups to assist set course to realize the undertaking’s targets.
• work with related groups to coordinate pathogen response actions on St Helena and
  produce a conservation motion plan to handle conservation work to take account of impacts and
  threat of plant pathogens threatening key cloud forest species.
• be a wonderful collaborator who’s motivated by bringing groups collectively and fostering
  proficient folks.

The Conservation Capability Improvement Officer (St Helena) will play a key mentoring function to
others, notably NCD’s Terrestrial Conservation Officer and the Cloud Forest Restoration
Ecologist function, to make sure long-term capability is in-built respect to habitat and undertaking
administration. You’ll assist the collaborative growth of labor plans key expert groups and
present alternatives for workers growth as the following part of the undertaking takes off.

We’re searching for an skilled conservation practitioner and crew facilitator, with
the next abilities and expertise to deliver to this thrilling function:

• Intensive expertise in conservation work and a confirmed understanding of habitat administration.
• Related qualification and/or equal work expertise in a conservation associated topic
• Good understanding of conservation challenges on islands
• Relationship and partnership constructing to allow work with a variety of stakeholders
  nationally and internationally.
• Demonstrable management potential and folks administration expertise
• Diplomacy and negotiation abilities to unravel issues and keep away from and overcome battle.
• Cultural sensitivity to make sure mutually respectful working relations with a variety of
  stakeholders, nationally and internationally.
• Information of the speculation and follow of undertaking administration.
• Threat administration.
• Confirmed time administration and organisational abilities.
• A capability to influence and affect a variety of individuals.
• In a position to work underneath stress and adapt to altering circumstances.
• The flexibility to supply verbal and written communications in a passionate and credible
  method.
• Driving licence

This put up is funded via the St Helena Cloud Forest Venture and is a crucial administration
function that can construct native capability to ship this massively bold undertaking. Additionally, you will
assist the habitat administration wants of different worthwhile terrestrial Nationwide Conservation Areas.

This fixed-term full time function is being supplied till 31 March 2025, and beginning as quickly as
attainable on the island of St Helena, primarily based inside RSPB’s Cloud Forest Workplace. We encourage
inside candidates on a secondment foundation for the function. Ought to you’ve any queries about this
function, please contact [email protected].

Please see accompanying doc on our web site for extra particulars (job pack).

The RSPB reserves the suitable to increase or make this function everlasting with out additional promoting
depending on enterprise wants on the finish of the contract time period.

We need to conduct interviews for this place as quickly as attainable, so please do not
delay in making use of. 

As a part of this utility course of you may be requested to finish an utility kind together with
proof on the way you meet the talents, information, and expertise listed above.

The RSPB is an equal alternatives employer. This function is roofed by the Rehabilitation of
Offenders Act 1974.