Vacancy @ConservationInternantional - Terrestrial Program Director

Working in 30+ countries globally, Conservation International (CI) Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to empowering societies to responsibly and sustainably care for nature for the good of humanity. We are constantly growing and expanding into areas new and old. With each step, we need more and more hands. Apply your passion, skills, and talents to helping us protect the most important places around the world. We are currently looking to fill the following position for our office in Jakarta:

 

  TERRESTRIAL PROGRAM DIRECTOR

 

The Terrestrial Program Director is a senior level position that has strong management responsibility for the CI Indonesia portfolio of conservation and development program encompassing biodiversity, forestry, climate change and green economic development. The Director leads science based strategic planning, policy engagement with government counterparts, as well as program implementation of policy objectives and partnerships. The Director plays and oversees national policy works related to climate change mitigation and adaptation in forest/biodiversity conservation management and also CI’s terrestrial program strategies such as the sustainable landscape partnership program (SLP).

 

Responsibilities:

1.   Project Development and Implementation; (i) Provide technical and management support to all terrestrial programs within the CI-Indonesia priority regions and ensure that program/project results meet CI and project donor quality standards and expectations and that these projects are progressing on schedule, (ii)Support on-going adjustments/initiatives to CI-I and HQ-based strategic planning and related new terrestrial programs and climate change initiatives with the CI-I Senior Management Team (SMT) and Program Managers, and CI HQ Climate Change Initiative and other teams in each field program, as opportunities arise.

2.  Policy Development: (i) Lead the amplification process of the lesson learnt from the sites to national/provincial level via policies or best practices to ensure bigger results such as the SLP. (ii) Lead policy initiatives required at national and sub-national level to support the goals/objectives of the Sustainable Landscape Partnership (SLP), (iii) Prepare white paper or policy recommendation for CI position on how improved forest management policies in Indonesia that amplify the learning of forest management practices in CI working sites and or others.

3.     Capacity Building and Partnership: (i) Develop internal CI and external stakeholder/partner capacity in the area of climate change adaptation and mitigation project activities via output-based, learning-by-doing training modules, by preparing training packages and specific presentations, and by organizing, implementing, and evaluating and adjusting training modules to meet learner needs; (ii) Takes part in evaluating, capturing and codifying knowledge, synthesizing lessons and stimulating the uptake of best practices, through regional publications and reports and other knowledge materials on climate change adaptation and mitigation; and seek to improve the technical quality of the CI-I knowledge products, project documents, programming documents, etc.

4.     Assist in coordinating multidisciplinary and team approach to implementing terrestrial programs with climate change, improved livelihoods, private sector engagement, and biodiversity conservation components: (i) Communicate climate change program outcomes and implementation, evaluation, and adjustment needs and support CI-I terrestrial program Senior Management Team (SMT) and their direct reports and provide leadership needed to work together as a team to achieve them

Requirements:

·      Min. Master Degree in a relevant scientific discipline and experience with analysis of climate change scenarios and related climate change impacts on human communities and tropical ecosystems with at least 10 years’ experience.

·       Experience in conducting and supervising land use research and related modeling scenarios in tropical countries, analyzing data and publishing results

·         Solid understanding of tropical land use practices

·         Strong written and verbal communication skills in Indonesian and English

·         Strong Leadership and human resources management

·         Proven ability in project conceptualization, development and fundraising.

·      Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively with a wide range of individuals and within teams representing different organizations or constituencies.

·       Extensive networking experience with central, provincial, government agencies, alliance building with donor partners and other INGOs,  institutions and other partner  networking

·         Ability to write reports including proposal writing

·         Working experience with multilateral donors.

 

 

Apply your passion, skills, and talents to helping us protect the most important places around the world.

Please send your current resume and cover letter (no more than 4 pages) to: ciindonesia.hrd@gmail.com.

 

Indicate the position title “ Terrestrial Program Director “ in the email subject line.

Closing date for the application is 25 November 2014

(Only short-listed candidates will be notified).

For more information about CI, please visit our web:

www.conservation.or.id / www.conservation.org