Are you creative, dynamic and driven by a passion for biodiversity and vision for a world where people live in harmony with nature?
Location: WWF Kenya’s Office in Nairobi.
The Role: This role leads on the exciting challenge to achieve this, and encompasses both our investments in conservation and social development programmes, and in organisational development to further strengthen a WWF Kenya office that deliver them.
Responsibilities
delivering against annual and longer term objectives, achieving the agreed results;
managing the performance and development of your team to deliver the agreed results;
Prioritising, adapting and making recommendations as necessary in a fast-moving context.
To be successful in this role, you will:
feel motivated by the challenge and opportunity of managing people, and holding them accountable for delivery;
have energy, drive and resilience, and the capacity to flourish responding to complexity and competing demands;
be able to function as an organisational leader owning responsibility for organisation-wide goals, as well as focusing on the specific priorities of your own role;
know how to influence and persuade others, operating in an international context;
Understand the realities of delivering conservation and social development programmes, and of operating in the Kenyan context.
Job Requirements
This is the ideal job for you if you have
an advanced degree (masters or higher) in Biology, Natural Resources, Environment, Social Science or related discipline
At least 10 years of experience in conservation planning and programme design, M&E, audits and evaluations both at the conceptual and practical level
7 years post-graduate professional direct experience in relation to environment, development, conservation or sustainability; and
at least 5 years in a senior conservation leadership role
