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

JOB DETAILS:
The Project Assistant- Resilient Ecosystem is responsible for supporting the project implementation to achieve TNC’s landscape project objectives by representing TNC in relationships and negotiations with government agencies, partners, communities, and other stakeholders. Their expertise in community-based conservation and carbon finance mechanisms will support delivery of the project’s objective to create sustainable revenue flows including through a prospective soil carbon project. They will help identify and resolve any challenges to effective project management and compliance. position them to support the Project Manager -Resilient Ecosystem and team where they are most needed in the field as well as office-based management duties.

Responsibilities And Scope
• Collaborates with the Project Manager -Resilient Ecosystem and partners to develop annual work plans and coordinate activity implementation in accordance with approved work plans.
• Establishes and maintains optimal performance standards to meet targets and expected outcomes of annual work plans and the funder agreement while remaining within budget.
• Ensures high quality implementation of the project field operations to realize progress towards project objectives, including through field visits.
• Ensures that logistics are in place for the implementation of events; ensures that activities are reported on technically and financially.
• Organizes and reports upon project partner meetings and provides follow-up.
• Supports the monitoring of key deliverables, outputs, and outcomes as per work plans, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) plan, and sub-grantee/contractor agreements.
• Manages, in coordination with the Project Manager -Resilient Ecosystem , relationships with local and national government institutions and partner organizations.
• Ensures coordination for planning and feedback with district and village governmental institutions, other stakeholders, partners, and beneficiaries for the project.
• Facilitates communications and information flow for the project.
• Coordinates annual work planning and quarterly and annual performance reports.
• Prepares presentations, lessons learned, and other communications and training products as needed.
• Contributes to management and implementation of a complex landscape-scale public award project.
• Ability and willingness to travel frequently and on short notice, sometimes on weekends.
• Support the coordination and negotiates with TNC partners and other stakeholders.
• Contributes to planning and delivery of a soil carbon finance project with communities in the landscape, including management of consultants and experts.
• 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 in natural resources management, conservation, business administration, economic development, carbon financing or another related field of study and 3 years of related work experience in conservation, carbon finance, conservation-oriented market and investment development, and/or other related experience.
• Experience in managing multiple projects and timelines within budget and compliance requirements.
• Experience developing partnerships (partners, community, government).
• Experience with reporting to public funders on technical delivery of projects.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Outlook, powerpoint.
• Desired qualifications
• 3 to 5 years of related work experience in carbon financing, community-based conservation, rangelands management, conservation-oriented market, and investment development and small and medium- sized agribusiness and/or carbon finance programs or other related experience.
• Multi-lingual skills and multi-cultural or cross-cultural experience appreciated – Proficiency in Swahili is an added advantage
• Flexibility and attention to detail are key requirements to get work done.
• Knowledge of Tanzania’s environment sector and wildlife management policies, laws, and development issues.
• Knowledge of current trends and strategies in conservation, carbon financing and land protection.
• Politically savvy and experienced in partnership development (partners, community, government).
• Effective communicator, both interpersonal and written, in English and Kiswahili.
• Experience negotiating complex agreements.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
To apply for job ID 51653, submit your materials online by using the Apply Now button at https://careers.nature.org/ . Need help applying? Visit our recruitment page or contact applyhelp@tnc.org .

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