World Heritage Outlook Coordinator

BACKGROUND

IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest world environmental community – a democratic
membership union with greater than 1,000 authorities and NGO member organizations, and nearly 11,000
volunteer scientists in additional than 160 nations.

IUCN’s work is supported by greater than 1,000 skilled employees in 45 places of work and tons of of
companions in public, NGO and personal sectors world wide. Its headquarters are based mostly in Gland,
Switzerland.

IUCN’s work focuses on valuing and conserving nature, guaranteeing efficient and equitable governance
of its use, and deploying nature-based options to world challenges in local weather, meals and
improvement. IUCN helps scientific analysis, manages subject tasks all around the world, and
brings governments, NGOs, the UN and corporations collectively to develop coverage, legal guidelines and greatest follow.

JOB DESCRIPTION

IUCN has a long-standing and high-profile function on World Heritage, delivered through a World Heritage
Unit of specialized employees throughout the Heritage and Tradition Group based mostly within the IUCN Centre for Society
and Governance, and involving Union huge engagement on a variety of points. This work features a
distinctive statutory function as Advisory Physique throughout the World Heritage Conference, creating a sequence of
strains of motion on World Heritage centered on the IUCN World Heritage Outlook, and the connection of
Nature and Tradition. The principle space of duty for this World Heritage Outlook
Coordinator can be to coordinate the third replace of the IUCN World Heritage Outlook, deliberate for
2025. This may contain the next:

1. Make sure the well timed supply of the IUCN World Heritage Outlook replace to strict deadlines by means of working carefully and collaboratively with a spread of companions;

2. Act as a focus to interact with the Inexperienced Listing staff to make sure harmonisation of methodologies and interoperability between World Heritage and the IUCN Inexperienced Listing of Protected and Conserved Areas;

3. Determine, in collaboration with related colleagues, and have interaction with specialists concerned within the replace of assessments (assessors and reviewers), and maintain monitor of progress for all 266 pure and blended World Heritage websites;

4. Session with key knowledge-holders all through the evaluation replace course of, together with web site managers, focal factors for States Events to the World Heritage Conference, Outlook Accomplice organisations, and related IUCN constituents, amongst others;

5. Lead inside high quality assurance course of for the Conservation Outlook Assessments (e.g. completeness checks, coordinating evaluation and proofreading, making ready paperwork for Regional Evaluation Teams and the IUCN World Heritage Panel);

6. Draft the IUCN World Heritage Outlook report in collaboration with colleagues within the IUCN secretariat (together with World Heritage monitoring and evaluations colleagues, International Communications Unit and others, as related), together with knowledge extraction and evaluation, report drafting and coordinating translation;

7. Act as a focus for liaisons with the exterior net developer to handle the content material of the IUCN World Heritage Outlook web site, the performance of the net evaluation module and the launch the publication of the up to date conservation outlook assessments on-line;

8. Lead the administration of the interior IUCN World Heritage contacts database;

9. Coordinate with inside Communications staff to carry a launch occasion(s) and different related content material (reminiscent of information tales and so on.) to maximise outreach and impression of the IUCN World Heritage Outlook 4 report and up to date conservation outlook assessments;

10. Lead the reflection and evaluation course of following the IUCN World Heritage Outlook 4 launch, together with figuring out future enhancements for the subsequent IUCN World Heritage Outlook replace and strategic instructions shifting forwards.

REQUIREMENTS 

• A Grasp’s diploma with a concentrate on environmental science, pure useful resource administration, or
  some other self-discipline that’s related to nature conservation and guarded areas;
• Related work expertise in a related subject;
• Distinctive organisational expertise and a focus to element;
• Earlier expertise in file and knowledge administration;
• Wonderful written and spoken English is important for this place. A excessive normal of
  written and spoken French and/or Spanish is a powerful benefit;
• Data of the World Heritage Conference and the IUCN Inexperienced Listing of Protected and
  Conserved Areas is a powerful benefit;
• Capability to work independently and ship high quality merchandise inside agreed deadlines;
• Collegiate staff employee;
• A robust aptitude and skill to speak each informally (interpersonal expertise and
  networking) and formally (displays and assembly);
• Desired: Data of the World Heritage Conference;
• Desired: Expertise with web site content material administration and administration of enormous doc
  repositories;
• Desired: GIS and spatial evaluation expertise;

All candidates should already be eligible to reside and work in both the UK or
Germany, as the 2 responsibility station choices. If you don’t meet this standards please don’t apply
for this place.