Position: Land Use, Agriculture and Forests Program Director
Program: Forest
Location: São Paulo/SP – Brazil
WRI Brazil seeks a Director for its new Land Use, Agriculture and Forests Program. The Director will be responsible for leadership, management, outreach, fundraising and scaling the anchor work on landscape restoration while broadening WRI Brasil’s work across sustainable food production and protection of native ecosystems. Meanwhile, paying close attention to essential issues related to equity, rights, good governance and land and natural resource tenure.
The position requires strong vision and experience, a strategic mindset, interpersonal skills, fundraising talent and knowledge of agriculture and forests and social issues, and how forests intersect with the economy, development, human wellbeing as well as climate change. In addition, the candidate should thrive operating in a diverse and results-focused culture. Ability to engage with multistakeholder processes including government, civil society, private sector and academia is strongly desired.
This is a challenging position that offers a unique opportunity to have a major impact on the Brazilian and the global environment and development issues.
Program Overview
The Forests, Land Use and Agriculture program works to make the conservation and recovery of native vegetation become central elements in the economic, social and environmental plans of cities, states and Brazil. To this end, it promotes the approach of restoring landscapes and forests, monitoring land use and broad dissemination and analysis of sustainable production models in agriculture and livestock, within an approach to protect, produce, reduce and restore:
Key Responsibilities
Strategy, Impact & Leadership
Outreach
Management
Fundraising
Required Qualifications:
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