Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The Project Manager -Resilient Ecosystem oversees and provides technical and program leadership to the project and advance and scale up past experiences of the Northern Tanzania Rangelands Initiative. They serve as the principal contact for the project to funder, subrecipients, other stakeholder organizations, and local public, community, and private sector institutions. Under leadership of the Northern Tanzania Program Director, they represent the project to external audiences and guide communications activities. They oversee development of mechanisms for effective project coordination, planning, implementation, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), as well as sharing and dissemination of data and learnings. They lead execution of the project’s conservation activities, supervise and collaborate with team members, and provide robust technical support to project activities and partners across all outputs and cross-cutting themes in the field. The Project Manager -Resilient Ecosystem develops key partnerships with public and private organizations in order to identify and resolve technical issues and to widely communicate solutions and best practices. They develop innovative scientific methods, analyses, tools, and frameworks to address the natural system needs, and engage local community support for local conservation efforts. They ensure quality control of all major deliverables to the funder within budget specifications, and help resolve challenges that affect project performance and develop solutions to reduce likelihood of future occurrence.

Responsibilities And Scope
• Provides overall technical leadership and management of a complex landscape-scale public award project.
• Serves as the primary project liaison with funder, communicates regularly with funder and partners implementing the funded activities and attend all funder partner meetings.
• Supervises the monitoring of key deliverables, outputs and outcomes as per work plans and sub awardee/contractor agreements.
• Provides robust technical input and support to all components of the project and the staff and partners responsible for them, ensuring the project achieves lasting and meaningful outcomes and results.
• Provides project compliance, financial oversight and quality assurance for all activities including budgeting, financial reporting, training, monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
• Prepares and submits annual work plans and quarterly and annual performance reports, and ensures progress towards project objectives, including through field visits.
• Ensures project activities and deliverables are coordinated and meet necessary requirements (specifically voluntary carbon standards ensuring) in line with the carbon project development process and cycle.
• Working with and coordinating partners and other project contributors on a diversity of specialized topics; including carbon, community engagement, livelihood support programming, legal and policy frameworks for community land and carbon rights.
• Represents the project to external audiences and guides communications activities.
• Oversees preparation and implementation of sub-award agreements and approves and oversees contracts within delegation of authority.
• Communicates regularly with the funder and attends funder-specific meetings.
• Oversees technical performance delivery of outputs and activities, including provision of hands-on strategic guidance of activities.
• Ensures coordination among numerous stakeholders, partners, and participants for the project.
• Obtains funder approval as required for communications materials, travel, equipment purchase and other items.
• Helps resolve challenges that affect project performance and develop solutions to reduce likelihood of future occurrence.
• Establishes and maintains optimal performance standards within budget.
• Disseminates best practices; provides training and analysis to best implement organizational measures of success; and develops key partnerships with public and private organizations in order to identify and resolve technical issues and to widely communicate solutions, innovative scientific methods and tools to address the natural system and human wellbeing needs of the project area.
• Frequently makes independently strategic decision based on analysis, ambiguous information, and context.
• Negotiates complex agreements, in a political environment.
• Frequent travel, evening and weekend hours.
• May work in variable weather conditions, at remote locations, on difficult and hazardous terrain, and under physically demanding circumstances.
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Minimum Qualifications
• BA/BS degree and 7 years’ experience in sustainable financing practice for conservation or related field (e.g., carbon financing, conservation, business administration, conservation biology, natural resources management, economic development) or equivalent combination of education and experience. This includes experience in progressively increasing management responsibility in international development projects on biodiversity conservation, conservation-oriented market and investment development and small and medium-sized agribusiness and/or carbon finance programs.
• Leadership skills managing similar sized public-funded projects, including subrecipient management and programmatic and financial reporting for public awards.
• Ability to build, maintain relationships with governments, stakeholders, and the private sector.
• Demonstrated experience in building and managing consortia of partners across institutions (e.g., communities, NGOs, private and government) and varying sectors.
• Demonstrated experience rapidly assembling and managing teams that have the appropriate skills and experience to effectively implement activities.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Demonstrated supervisory experience, including motivating, leading, setting objectives and managing performance.
• Experience negotiating complex agreements.
• Desired qualifications
• Multi-lingual and multi-cultural or cross-cultural experience appreciated – proficiency in Swahili is an added advantage.
• 7-10 years’ experience in conservation practice, developing and implementing carbon finance or equivalent combination of education (e.g., Master’s degree in relevant field) and experience.
• Demonstrated experience influencing, developing and implementing sustainable financing mechanisms for conservation, policy and plans.
• Experience developing and implementing carbon finance projects is an added advantage.
• Effective communicator in written and spoken English and Kiswahili.
• Strong understanding of the ecological, social, and economic background of Tanzania and/or East Africa, including of rural or pastoralist communities.
• Knowledge of Tanzania’s environment sector and wildlife management policies, laws, and development issues.
• Knowledge of current trends and practices in relevant disciplines in Tanzania and/or Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Ability to develop practical applications of scientific concepts and technical innovations for conservation purposes.
• Knowledge of methods and standards of carbon financing, biodiversity information systems and initiatives or related field.
• Politically savvy.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
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