Key Responsibilities
Leadership
Lead the review , implementation, and adoption of AWF’s project management methodology, tools, standard operating procedures and expectations
Lead , develop and supervise a team of professional staff
Ensure AWF’s vision is well understood by the project teams
Provide expert input into and deliver creative solutions to improve AWF’s unique culture
Promote a culture of accountability, urgency in delivery and quality of work using the established RACI
Program Implementation
Oversee program implementation and ensure conservation impact, compliance with donor regulations and effective communication with other AWF departments
Oversee effective and relevant program inception meetings, and planning exercises for programs in Africa
Work with the landscape and country coordinators and directors, to coordinate development of project plans and budgets advising on what is achievable given time, budgets, and operations
Ensure that program managers are using the project management system ( Envisio) and recommend an adaptive management course as needed
Question programmatic assumptions, plans and pace to ensure that AWF remains on a good course considering changing operational realities
Ensure that requirements for proposal development (log-frames, technical design, and other inputs) are high quality and provided to the relevant fundraising teams in timely manner
Build , maintain and improve systems for collecting programmatic means of verification (MOVs)
Ensure timely and high-quality programmatic reporting and conservation outputs from landscape teams
Evaluate the challenges faced by the Field teams and act to mitigate risks and develop opportunities
Integrate AWF’s Rights based approaches in AWF’s programming
Oversee AWF’s classroom Africa program
Represent AWF at relevant forums
Qualifications
Master or Bachelor’s degree in ecology, conservation, project management, sustainable development, or related Advanced degree preferred
At least 10 years’ experience managing large field-based conservation and sustainable development grants with annual budgets in excess of US$1 million
Demonstrated ability to lead professional teams
Ability to think strategically, anticipate future consequences and trends, and incorporate them into the organizational Willingness to question the status quo.
Decisive, with a high level of business acumen and the ability to balance the delivery of programs against the realities of a budget
Strong project management experience
High level of emotional intelligence
Results based orientation
Personable, with the ability to get the best from a team without unnecessary interpersonal conflict or
Ability and willingness to travel sometimes to very remote and sometimes physically challenging locations
Fluency in English and French
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