Project Director, Maiko Landscape, DRC

Salary: Commensurate with skills and experience

Start Date: As soon as possible

Contract Type: Two year, fixed-term contract with potential for renewal

Location: Kisangani, Walikale or Lubutu, DRC. This position will be based in one of the above locations and will be within a day’s road travel of Maiko National Park HQ.

Founded in 1903, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is the world’s longest established international conservation organisation. Our vision is to create a sustainable future for the planet where biodiversity is conserved by the people living closest to it. We aim to do this through the conservation of threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take account of human needs. We have become a trusted entity in the world of conservation. Today FFI is active in over 40 countries.

We are seeking a highly competent and effective leader, who, with a wider national and global FFI team, will work closely alongside DRC’s protected area authority – the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN), and local stakeholders, to lead this ambitious programme of work.

You will have a proven track record in leading, developing and delivering effective conservation or development programmes within a politically and conflict sensitive environment, in Africa. You will have proven expertise in building relationships and negotiating agreements with a variety of stakeholders, and a critical awareness of the importance of environmental and social safeguards in order to design an approach based on global best practice. Ideally, you will have experience of collaborative and integrated approaches to protected area management at scale, community based natural resource management, and given the challenges in eastern DRC, conflict resolution and/or peace building.

Excellent leadership and people management skills are essential to the role to ensure a professional and motivated team that delivers effectively against programme aims, objectives and timelines. The role also requires a skilled and credible communicator, who is confident in developing and managing relationships with different government divisions, communities, partner organisations and other relevant stakeholders. With a structured but adaptable approach to your work, and a clear focus on results and impacts you will be able to help FFI drive effective and collaborative biodiversity protection in this critically important forest landscape.

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The closing date for applications is Sunday, 31 July 2022.