Vacancies at the WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE (WWF)

Risk and Compliance Officer

Reports to: Country Director
Location: Yaounde
Duration: Two (02) years

The mission of the department
To ensure a high-performing WWF Cameroon Office with efficient and effective Financial and Accounting operations and systems, as well as a sound management of financial resources, to deliver conservation activities. The department ensures that an efficient and effective internal control management and solid financial basis are established.

Major Functions
Under the Country Director’s supervision
• Work in collaboration with the Finance & Administration department and relevant stakeholders to assess the implementation and monitoring of the internal control framework;
• Support the Finance & Administration Manager in ensuring an improved overall finance management finance management of WWF Cameroon hosted Projects, reaching and maintaining a high level of performance about targets set out for Cameroon country KPIs and Dashboard indicators;
• Ensure internal Control System review for field offices is conducted according to the agreed work plan and report any potential risk to the Country Director;
• Ensure all CCO implementing partners are complying with WWF standards, and all financial management policies are followed in all the projects.
• Ensure effective implementation of all financial policies, procedures, and legal requirements in the Programme Office, so that policies and procedures are adapted, where necessary, to comply with the Country’s laws;

 

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Wildlife Crime Hub Coordinator

Reports to: Congo Basin Conservation Director
Supervises: WWF Cameroon Law Enforcement Officer
Location: Yaoundé, Libreville, Brazzaville or Kinshasa
Duration: Two (02) years renewable depending on funding

The Wildlife Crime Hub (WCH) program consists of three subregional teams in South, East, and Central Africa. The Central Africa (CA) hub is part of the Congo Basin Conservation team. This position provides leadership to the CA WCH and provides global expertise to the WWF Biodiversity Practice (BP). A main goal of the Biodiversity Practice is that the world’s most iconic and endangered species are secured and recovering in the wild.

Major Functions
This position will be responsible for delivering the Central Africa Wildlife Crime Hub contribution to the Africa Wildlife Crime Transformational Project and contribute to the Outcome 2 strategy of the Biodiversity Practice by securing high-level political and corporate commitments as well as programmatic impact delivery. The primary functions of this role are to roll out the Zero Poaching Approach across the priority landscapes in Central Africa (40%) and coordinate the overall wildlife crime program in Central Africa region (60%).

Major Duties and Responsibilities:
The position will lead to the following duties and responsibilities:
A. Coordination, policy-level responsibilities, advocacy and partnership/coalition building
• Ensure coherency and complementarity with other Regional Hubs, TRAFFIC and the WWF Network (especially the Biodiversity Practice Core Team, Ethical Law Enforcement, and the WC ACAI coordinator);
• Establish partnerships with national and international organizations, and coordinate regional policy and advocacy efforts (e.g. CITES and UNCAC).
• Coordinate the rollout of the zero-poaching framework in Central Africa and collaborate with government and NGO partners to promote the approach regionally.
• Promote learning and sharing at inter-country, inter-regional, and international levels as a means of fast-tracking proven approaches, methodologies, and tools.

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TRIDOM Landscape Manager

Reports to: Congo Basin Conservation Director
Supervises: TRIDOM regional staff, consultants
Location: Yaounde, Cameroon or Brazzaville, RoC
Duration: Two (02) years renewable depending on funding

The mission of the department

The Tri-National Dja-Odzala-Minkebe (TRIDOM) Landscape covers nearly 10% of the Congo Basin rainforests in Cameroon, Gabon, and Congo-Brazzaville. This Landscape is one of the priority Landscapes for WWF because it holds the largest elephant population in the Congo Basin and harbors most of the biodiversity typically found in central Africa’s rainforests, including western gorillas and central chimpanzees. TRIDOM has 250,000 inhabitants (typically 1 inh/km² average density) including an estimated 10,000 Baka indigenous people. With a forest cover of 97% and a very low deforestation rate, it is one of the most intact forest blocks in the Congo Basin. However, the growing road network, logging, artisanal mining, cocoa expansion, ivory poaching, and plans for large-scale mining and agroindustry pose immense challenges. WWF Network comes together to support this priority Landscape Initiative.

Major Functions
The TRIDOM Landscape Manager is responsible for all aspects of the transboundary TRIDOM program, including, but not limited to, overall planning, coordination, and management of the WWF transboundary TRIDOM program; strategic partnership and engagement with governmental, intergovernmental, civil society, research institutions and development partners; finance and administration; fundraising; and communication.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategic direction:
● Responsible for coordinating the collaborative redesign of the TRIDOM strategy;
● Deliver the WWF TRIDOM program’s objectives with technical support from the respective WWF Country Offices, WWF Network partners and technical experts;
● Act as the focal point for engaging with relevant WWF entities, government agencies, donors and partners.

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