REDD+ Project Manager

REDD+ Challenge Supervisor

• Software deadline: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
• Areas: Cambridge, UK or Dakar, Senegal or Nairobi, Kenya (with potential to discover
  versatile distant working)
• Full time
• Contract: 2 years mounted time period
• Wage: Topic to location, dependant on expertise and expertise
• Annual Depart: topic to location

BirdLife Worldwide is the world’s largest and oldest nature conservation partnership.
Via our distinctive local-to-global method, we ship excessive influence and long-term conservation
for the advantage of nature and folks.

Our Forests Programme leverages the ability of Partnership to finish deforestation and advance
restoration on the planet’s most essential tropical forest landscapes.

Carbon finance is a vital mechanism to assist deal with the twin crises of local weather change and
biodiversity loss. Many websites the place BirdLife Companions are working to handle deforestation have
excessive potential to make use of carbon finance to generate native and nationwide financial advantages, advance
biodiversity conservation, and fight local weather change.

We’re on the lookout for an skilled and dynamic conservation undertaking supervisor to help BirdLife
Companions of their improvement of REDD+ tasks.

The position can have an preliminary focus in Tsitongambarika Forest, Madagascar, the place the BirdLife
Associate, Asity Madagascar, has been implementing biodiversity and forest conservation for 18
years. In Tsitongambarika, the position gives a novel and thrilling alternative to ascertain a brand new
REDD+ undertaking in collaboration with an skilled nationwide NGO, the Authorities of Madagascar
and the community-led forest governance construction, with help from a dedicated company
accomplice. Via provision of multi-faceted help, the position will help the REDD+ undertaking’s
improvement whereas additionally enabling Asity’s management within the undertaking, on-the-ground conservation
actions, and organizational improvement. In Tsitongambarika, the position will work in shut
collaboration with Asity Madagascar and BirdLife’s world and Africa regional groups, to
present:

• Technical help and coordination of the design and improvement of the Tsitongambarika
  Forest REDD+ undertaking,
• Readiness strengthening for Asity Madagascar as a rising nationwide conservation NGO, and
• Administration of ongoing BirdLife Worldwide grants that help forest conservation and
  carbon undertaking improvement at Tsitongambarika

The REDD+ Challenge Supervisor will even be a part of BirdLife’s rising world Forests Programme,
with alternatives to enter to and alternate experiences with colleagues and Companions engaged on
forest conservation, restoration and conservation finance all over the world.

The perfect candidate has the expertise and enthusiasm to tackle this advanced and impressive
initiative. They need to be capable of display their capability to grasp and adapt to an
evolving undertaking context, together with sensitively managing essential stakeholder relationships
whereas advancing a technically advanced REDD+ undertaking design, improvement and certification
course of.

The perfect candidate can have

1. Data of tropical forest panorama conservation points, and associated funding mechanisms
   and tendencies
2. Demonstrable related work expertise in local weather finance, voluntary carbon markets, carbon
   credit score worth chain or related.
3. Experience and understanding for creating REDD+ tasks and carbon certification for VCS
   and CCBS, together with related monitoring and analysis elements
4. Expertise working with and supporting nationwide NGOs
5. Robust technical, analytical and statistical expertise
6. Expertise designing and constructing programmes of labor via strategic planning and workforce
   coordination.
7. Expertise working with the non-public sector, together with corporates and/or monetary
   establishments, on local weather or forest-related points.
8. Expertise in undertaking planning, design, negotiation, contracting and reporting.
9. Expertise of working in creating international locations; expertise in Madagascar a bonus
10. Fluency in English, and dealing proficiency in spoken and written French important, fluency
    a bonus

Please see the complete job description on the BirdLife Worldwide web site for additional particulars.

BirdLife values a various workforce and welcomes functions from all sections of the
group. Discover out extra about our Diversity statement.

We’re dedicated to constructing and sustaining an inclusive and supportive tradition, a spot the place
we are able to all be ourselves and succeed on benefit. We intention to advertise a extra inclusive atmosphere,
which attracts all candidates and indicators our dedication to rejoice and promote variety.

We’ll think about placing into place acceptable affordable changes for candidates who could
have a incapacity.

We’re in a position to supply a hybrid mannequin of engaged on web site and from house/distant for many roles,
which helps to make sure a versatile work life steadiness.

apply:

Please e-mail your software to us at: [email protected]

Please put “REDD+ Challenge Supervisor” within the topic line. Your software ought to embody a
overlaying letter summarising your suitability for the position, your CV and particulars of the place you noticed
the job advert.

Interviews: Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted.