Manager, Forest Landscape

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Position Summary:

At Rainforest Alliance, we are looking for an experienced, highly skilled and motivated Project Manager to join our team in Cameroon. This role will play a crucial role in leading the strategic development of our projects in forest landscapes, building on the ongoing projects with the Global Environment Facility (GEF), French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) and Forest Allies. The role will strengthen the relationship with projects’ implementing partners and bring substantial support to the projects’ teams to achieve positive climate, biodiversity, and social development impacts from sustainable agriculture (with a focus on cocoa) and community forestry. The Manager Forest Landscapes harnesses the institutional strategy of driving landscape transformation to meet country needs and contributes to integrated program design and implementation to high-quality standards. The Manager of Forest Landscapes fosters a culture of deep coordination and collaboration amongst the Cameroon team, with colleagues from all relevant units across the region and globally and ensures excellence in all aspects of our mission delivery within Cameroon, including safeguarding the quality of our commitments to companies, donors and partners, and compliance with policies and procedures. This position carries out supervisory responsibilities by Rainforest Alliance policies and applicable laws. As a world-class organization committed to sustainability and environmental conservation, Rainforest Alliance offers a unique opportunity for individuals who are passionate about making a difference.

Responsibilities:

• The Rainforest Alliance’s Core Values are Impact, Change, Collaboration, Openness and Trust and as such they form the basis of the behaviours we demonstrate;
• Contribute to the development of learning materials, case studies, and knowledge products to disseminate project findings and lessons learned;
• Build and maintain strong relationships with local communities, government authorities, private sector partners, NGOs, and other stakeholders involved in forest landscape management;
• Collaborate with project partners and other relevant stakeholders to promote coordination, knowledge sharing, and joint learning initiatives;
• Manage agreements with key project partners;
• Facilitate stakeholder consultations, workshops, and meetings to ensure inclusive participation and buy-in for forest landscape initiatives;
• Advocate for policies and practices that support sustainable forest management and landscape restoration at local, national, and regional levels;
• Develop and implement innovative approaches to forest conservation that enhance ecosystem services and support community livelihoods;
• Support capacity-building efforts for local communities, partners, and staff on sustainable forest management practices;
• Implement and supervise quality control procedures to ensure transparent, evidence-based MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning) systems, including reliable and timely field data collection, management, and analysis that produce high-quality output and outcome indicators;
• Prepare timely and high-quality technical reports and briefings as required by donors, and assist in preparing presentations for project partners, landscape stakeholders, and other Rainforest Alliance partners; and
• Collaborate with internal teams to identify new partners and funding sources to secure the long-term viability of Rainforest Alliance interventions in forest landscapes.

Qualifications:

• Degree or equivalent experience in Forestry, Agriculture, Social Sciences, Natural Resources Management or related field;
• Proven experience (6-7 years) in project/program management at mid-senior level, monitoring and evaluation, project design, relationship building, and corporate affairs;
• Consistent track record in nurturing and developing projects in the agriculture/environment/development area, stakeholder management and representing an organization in a multi-stakeholder environment;
• Experience working with local communities, government agencies, and private sector partners in Cameroon or similar contexts;
• Demonstrated experience in managing donor-funded projects, including budget management and reporting;
• Knowledge of the corporate Environment and Social Governance investment space;
• Knowledge and understanding of the agriculture sustainability and voluntary certification programs;
• Excellent writing, editing and verbal communication skills, written and verbal proficiency in French and English is required;
• Ability to travel internationally, including in different cocoa origins;
• Ability and willingness to travel at least 30% of the time nationally and internationally; and
• Demonstrated commitment to the Rainforest Alliance’s mission and values. 

Job Level: 3

Salary: Commensurate with experience

Deadline: 20 September 2024

Notes: Only candidates authorized to work in Cameroon will be considered.

If you have any questions about the job vacancy, please contact the HR department: at recruitment@ra.org

Who we are:
The Rainforest Alliance is creating a more sustainable world by using social and market forces to protect nature and improve the lives of farmers and forest communities. To achieve our mission, we partner with diverse allies around the world to drive positive change across global supply chains and in many of our most critically important natural landscapes.

Our alliance spans 70 countries and includes farmers and forest communities, companies, governments, civil society, and millions of individuals. Together we work to protect forests and biodiversity, take action on climate, and promote the rights and improve the livelihoods of rural people.

As an international nonprofit organization with more than 30 years of experience in sustainability transformation, we understand that the social and economic well-being of rural communities is tightly connected to ecosystem health. This knowledge has shaped our rigorous programs to advance sustainable land use and commodity production.

At the Rainforest Alliance, we combat climate change, protect forests and biodiversity, promote human rights, and improve livelihoods. The enormity of the social and environmental challenges we are facing requires working together in a broad alliance. This is why we bring farmers, forest communities, companies, and consumers together to change the way the world produces, sources, and consumes.

Why
To protect nature and improve lives it’s becoming increasingly urgent that we approach the way we use our land and produce food and other products in more sustainable ways. For this to succeed we need to fundamentally change the way that businesses operate and source, and the choices we all make as consumers.

How
Our growing global alliance aims to transform our relationship with our natural resources and each other, to create a better future for people and nature together.

The Rainforest Alliance encourages diversity and inclusion across the global organization. With this commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ages, disability and any other protected group.