Project Manager – HCI

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Oversee the support provided by the Global Coordination Unit to HCI partners and guarantee the successful execution of all project elements.

• Manage the Global Coordination Unit team and offer daily project oversight.

• Collaborate with ten Component 1 partners as well as partners and specialists across Components 2 to 5.

• Evaluate and authorize annual work plans and budgets while contributing technical insights to partner initiatives.

• Lead the execution of Components 2 and 3, which includes the Youth Policy Leaders program.

• Handle monitoring, evaluation, project activities, outcomes, risks, procurement, expenditures, workshops, meetings, communications, and adaptive management.

• Create annual work plans and budgets, progress reports, financial reports, co-financing reports, and the project closure report.

• Oversee the workflow of the Indigenous Global Steering Committee.

• Design and manage the project website and execute the communications strategy.

• Assist in implementation visits, learning visits, internal reviews, and external evaluations.

• Prepare and implement the project exit strategy ensuring sustainability of project outcomes.

• Recruit and oversee staff, consultants, and subcontractors.

• Ensure quality assurance in accordance with GEF and WWF standards and policies.

• Coordinate partnerships, co-financing, stakeholder engagement, gender equality, and social inclusion initiatives.

• Represent the project at conferences, meetings, and workshops.

• Travel internationally for approximately week-long trips on a quarterly basis.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of technical working experience, with at least five years in project management.

• Bachelor's Degree; a post-graduate degree in a relevant field is preferred.

• At least five years of experience supporting and collaborating with Indigenous peoples and local community organizations.

• Proven history of culturally sensitive and respectful, community-centered collaboration with Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

• Capability to engage with Indigenous peoples and local community representatives, senior government officials, NGO staff, business leaders, and donors.

• Experience with the Convention on Biological Diversity and/or other multilateral agreements and processes, emphasizing biodiversity, the rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities, and finance.

• Experience providing technical and financial reporting to donor agencies on substantial projects.

• Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder, and multi-country projects.

• Experience in leading a team and coordinating sub-grant partners across diverse time zones and cultures.

• Technical knowledge and experience in Indigenous-led territorial stewardship or community-based sustainable development.

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.

• Advanced proficiency in Spanish, French, or Portuguese is highly preferred.

• Familiarity with the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation or WWF Project and Program Management Standards is preferred.

• Experience with GEF Projects and knowledge of GEF processes is advantageous.

• Applicants from Brazil or Kenya must be nationals legally authorized to work in their respective countries.

• Applicants from Cambodia must be nationals from South and Southeast Asian countries willing to relocate to Cambodia, where applicable.

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid relocation: Not applicable.

• Expectation of week-long international travel approximately quarterly.

• Potential for visa sponsorship and relocation cost assistance for applicants from Cambodia, contingent upon budget availability.

• Equal employment opportunities are provided.