Conservation Livelihoods Technical Specialist

This position will work with each Jersey Abroad Help (JOA) and Durrell Wildlife Conservation Belief to strengthen and ship each organisations’ built-in biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation methods. While this submit is employed straight with Durrell the post-holder will work intently with colleagues at JOA.

Since 1968, JOA has been working world wide, responding to humanitarian crises, supporting worldwide organisations a Jersey charities to undertake rural growth initiatives, and working group initiatives with Jersey volunteers. JOA at present assist worldwide growth initiatives in six goal international locations – Rwanda Malawi, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Zambia and Nepal – while assist for humanitarian crises and Jersey charities is worldwide. JOA companions with implementing organisations round three key themes, that are synonymous with the island of Jersey. These are Dairy for Improvement, Monetary Inclusion and Conservation Lives and Livelihoods.

JOA’s Conservation Lives and Livelihoods technique focuses on areas the place the threats to the wellbeing of individuals and nonhuman nature are inextricably linked. The general goal of the technique is to advertise innovation and finest follow within the design, supply, and scaling of biodiversity conservation initiatives which engender multidimensional poverty alleviation and/or multidimensional poverty alleviation initiatives which allow efficient and sustainable conservation and stewardship of pure sources. The Conservation Livelihoods Technical Specialist will play a key position within the growth and supply of this worldwide grant making technique, offering steering to present JOA initiatives and companions advising potential companions, and contributing to the evaluate and choice course of for brand new companions and initiatives.

The profitable candidate will lead, advise and assist the design, efficient supply and monitoring of affect of built-in biodiversity conservation and rural livelihoods initiatives throughout Durrell’s rewilding websites – predominantly in Madagascar and India, – while scoping out additional alternatives at different rewilding websites. They may work intently with programme supply and affect monitoring groups at each organisations and in a number of international locations.

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