Project Manager – HCI

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

📋 Description

• Lead the support efforts of the Global Coordination Unit for partners involved in the Heart of Conservation Initiative, ensuring the effective execution of all project elements.

• Oversee the Global Coordination Unit team and manage daily project operations.

• Collaborate with ten partners from Component 1 and engage with additional partners and specialists across other components.

• Review and authorize annual work plans and budgets while providing technical guidance for partner activities.

• Direct the implementation of Components 2 and 3, focusing on enhancing collective capacity and the Youth Policy Leaders program.

• Facilitate the execution of Components 4 and 5.

• Monitor and assess project activities and outcomes in relation to the CERDoc, Grant Agreement, Annual Work Plan and Budget, and Results Framework.

• Manage the workflow for the Indigenous Global Steering Committee.

• Create annual global work plans and budgets in collaboration with sub-grantees and partners.

• Supervise procurement processes, expenditures, work-plan progress, monitoring strategies, risks, and mitigation measures.

• Organize inception workshops, project meetings, learning visits, reviews, and evaluations.

• Oversee the project website and implement the communications strategy.

• Assist in conducting annual reflection workshops and adaptive management.

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

• Draft project progress reports, workshop summaries, financial reports, co-finance documentation, and closure reports.

• Supervise recruitment processes and directly manage staff and consultants.

• Ensure quality assurance for project activities, sub-grants, reports, and deliverables.

• Coordinate co-financed projects, build partnerships, engage stakeholders, and promote gender equality and social inclusion.

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

• Travel internationally for approximately one week every quarter.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• At least five years of experience working in solidarity with Indigenous peoples and local community organizations.

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

• Demonstrated ability to engage with Indigenous peoples and local community representatives, as well as senior government, NGO, business, and donor personnel.

• Familiarity with the Convention on Biological Diversity and/or other multilateral agreements and processes, particularly regarding biodiversity, Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights, and finance.

• Experience in delivering technical and financial reports to donor agencies for large-scale projects.

• Proven experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder, and multi-country projects.

• Experience leading a team and coordinating sub-grant partners, ideally across various time zones and cultural contexts.

• Technical expertise in the project's thematic area, such as Indigenous-led territorial stewardship and community-based sustainable development.

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.

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

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the job's location.

• For candidates from Brazil or Kenya, they must be nationals legally authorized to work in those countries.

• For applicants from Cambodia, eligible candidates include nationals from South and Southeast Asian countries willing to relocate to Cambodia.

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid relocation: None.

• Employment visa sponsorship and relocation are not available for Brazil or Kenya.

• WWF-Cambodia may offer visa sponsorship and cover relocation expenses based on budget availability.

• Equal employment opportunities are provided for all qualified individuals regardless of age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.