Project Manager

Job Description:

• Lead the Global Coordination Unit’s support for Heart of Conservation Initiative partners and ensure successful delivery of all project components
• Supervise Global Coordination Unit staff and manage day-to-day project activities
• Coordinate with ten Component 1 Partners and partners and specialists across other components
• Review and approve annual work plans and budgets and provide technical inputs to partner work
• Lead delivery of Components 2 and 3, including the collective strengthening program and Youth Policy Leaders program
• Support delivery of Components 4 and 5
• Monitor and evaluate project activities and results against project agreements, annual plans, and the results framework
• Manage regular meetings with partners and workflow for the Indigenous Global Steering Committee
• Develop annual work plans and budgets with sub-grantees and partners
• Oversee procurement, expenditure, monitoring plans, workshops, website maintenance, and communications strategy
• Support implementation visits, learning visits, reviews, evaluations, and annual reflection workshops
• Troubleshoot challenges and maintain the project risk register and mitigation measures
• Prepare and execute the project exit plan and ensure sustainability of project results
• Prepare semi-annual project progress reports, workshop reports, quarterly financial reports, co-finance reporting, and the project close report
• Provide quality assurance for project activities, grants, reports, and other deliverables
• Coordinate co-financed projects, stakeholder engagement, partnerships, and additional co-financing
• Represent the project at conferences, meetings, and workshops
• Travel internationally for approximately one week on a quarterly basis

Requirements:

• 10 years of technical working experience, including at least five years of project management experience
• Bachelor’s Degree; post-graduate degree in a relevant field preferred
• At least five years’ experience supporting and working in solidarity with Indigenous people and local community organizations
• Demonstrated track record of culturally sensitive and respectful, community-centered collaboration with Indigenous Peoples and local communities
• Ability to interact with Indigenous peoples and local community representatives, senior government, NGO, business, and donor staff
• Experience with the Convention on Biological Diversity and/or other multilateral agreements and processes, focusing on biodiversity, Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights, and finance
• Experience delivering technical and financial reporting to donor agencies on large projects
• Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder and multi-country projects
• Experience leading a team of staff and coordinating sub-grant partners, ideally across multiple time zones and cultures
• Technical experience and knowledge in Indigenous-led territorial stewardship, community-based sustainable development, or related thematic areas
• Written and spoken fluency in English required
• Advanced proficiency in Spanish, French, or Portuguese highly preferred
• Applicants for Brazil or Kenya must be nationals legally authorized to work in Brazil or Kenya
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the job's location
• Strategic collaboration and leadership skills
• Intercultural and adaptive management skills
• Results-oriented project management skills
• Cross-cultural communication skills

Benefits:

• Paid relocation: None
• Employment visa sponsorship is not provided for Brazil or Kenya
• WWF-Cambodia may be able to support visa sponsorship and relocation costs based on available budget for eligible South and Southeast Asian nationals willing to relocate to Cambodia
• Equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals