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For the Global Environment Facility (GEF) project in Cameroon, we are looking for a committed Landscape Operational Assistant (LOA), for day-to-day coordination of certain project activities at the local level.
Reports to:
Project Manager (PM)
Location:
Mintom (TRIDOM Landscape)
Duration:
Two (02) years renewable
Mission of the Department:
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council approved the 6-year Congo Basin Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (CBSL IP) which encompasses a regional component, managed by UNEP (United Nations Evironment Programme), and several national child projects in the countries of Congo Basin.
Cameroon child project is managed by WWF-US as the GEF Agency, executed by the Ministry of Environment Protection of Nature and Sustainable Development (MINEPDED) with WWF Cameroon as Financial Administrator. It addresses the drivers of forest loss and degradation through strategies aimed at strengthening the integrated management of Cameroon’s globally important forest landscapes in the Congo Basin, to secure its biological integrity and increase economic opportunities and livelihoods for forest dependent people.
Over the six-year project period, these strategies will be advanced through the implementation of five components:
The project targets key Cameroon trans-frontier forest landscape, which stretches from the Rio Campo seascape on the coast, across the Cameroon segments of the Tri-National Dja-Odzala-Minkebe (TRIDOM) and Sangha Tri-National (TNS) landscapes towards the east. The target areas for project interventions under each strategy are dependent on site-specific considerations, including the potential to achieve meaningful results in the six-year project period, baselines and available co-financing, and the ability to manage all environmental and social safeguard considerations. Several partners and sub-contractors will be involved or hired for the implementation of different project tasks. Their contribution will need to be coordinated and constantly monitored.
Given the complexity of the project, with the high number of partners and sub-contractors to be involved in the implementation of different activities at landscape level, we are looking for a Landscape Operational Assistant, based within the landscapes and responsible for day-to-day coordination of certain project activities at the local level.
Major Functions:
The Landscape Operational Assistant will work in close collaboration with the projects executing partners, sub-contractors, local administrative bodies, Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs), and other stakeholders to support project implementation. He/She will also play a significant role in project communications and monitoring by organizing regular meetings with key stakeholders to evaluate project progress.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
He/she will be responsible, among others, for:
Profile:
Required Qualifications:
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Working Relationships:
Internal
Collaborates and works closely and on a regular basis with partner’s project managers and key technical staffs at landscape level, and Programme Management Unit staff (Environmental and Social Safeguards officer, landscape operational assistants, Monitoring, Evaluation and knowledge management specialist, Finance manager).
External
He will collaborate with Project National Director and Technical advisers, technical staff of project partners and other sub-contracting partners and consultants involved in the implementation of the projects at landscape level.
This job description covers the main tasks and conveys the spirit of the sort of tasks that are anticipated proactively from staff. Other tasks may be assigned as necessary according to organizational needs.
This vacancy is archived.