Project title: Southern Kenya-Northern Tanzania Transboundary Program
(SOKNOT-UNGANISHA)
Position title: Operations Officer
Reports to: SOKNOT Program Coordinator/(Operations Manager-dotted line)
Location: WWF Arusha Office
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The Role
With its “Southern Kenya-Northern Tanzania Transboundary Program (SOKNOTUNGANISHA)” WWF is implementing a multi-sectoral conservation strategy to secure important wildlife migration corridors and habitat between protected areas in the Kenyan-Tanzanian border region, reaching from the areas surrounding Mara-Serengeti in the west to Tsavo-Mkomasi in the East.
With this strategy the program plans to achieve the following four strategic objectives:
- Poaching and illegal wildlife trade (IWT) of key wildlife species (elephant, rhino, lion, wild dog) and other selected threatened species (giraffe, cheetah, pangolin) are reduced, and the efforts are contributing to communities’ benefits.
- The destruction of key forest, grass-/rangeland and freshwater resources in critical areas is reduced, ensuring free wildlife migration and dispersal, improved ecosystem-flows, biodiversity and community benefits
- Targeted communities in critical areas in the vicinity of wildlife migration corridors and dispersal areas are benefitting from sustainable and ecofriendly enterprises and value chains. IV. Governance structures, policies and legal frameworks between Tanzania and Kenya, are improved for sustainable trans-boundary management and are supported by regional and relevant international bodies.
Led by the Kenyan and Tanzanian WWF Country offices, the program is coordinated through its WWF office in Arusha and implemented with Kenya and Tanzania country teams of technical experts and in close cooperation with local Government, NGO partners and the WWF network.
II. MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- In liaison with the Operations Manager, Develop and implement appropriate administrative systems, policies, procedures and regulations that will effectively support Conservation delivery in the SOKNOT Landscape.
- Work with TCO IT officer to ensure all IT matters are well addressed at the Arusha and Mkomazi Offices
- Supervise and monitor all aspects of administrative, logistics and procurement activities
based on WWF policies, procedures and system requirements.
- Working closely with the Landlords of Arusha and Mkomazi office to ensure facilities are well maintained and meet WWF Standards and report to the Operations Manager at
TCO HQ
- Maintain SOKNOT Landscape inventory and fixed assets, ensuring that all WWF assets are properly safeguarded, insured and tracked.
- Prepares monthly reports of vehicle reports, which includes costs as fuel, repair and maintenance and send to TCO HQ for compilation and consolidation.
- Maintain a list of approved suppliers in the Landscape and ensure all purchases are done from the List of approved suppliers.
- Supervise, guide and assist the procurement officer, drivers and Office Administrator and implementing partners with procurement processes such as the development and monitoring of procurement plans, procurement processes for Goods and Services incl. advertisements, tender procedures, evaluation of bids, preparation and review of contracts, monitoring and evaluation of services provided, final inspections and approval of service delivery including required documentation
- Manage and coordinate the use of project vehicles according to WWF’s vehicle use regulations including regular review of logbooks, vehicle maintenance schedules, accident reports and vehicle repairs
- Support project managers with budget planning, monitoring and budget amendments
- Lead trainings of partner staff on procurement and administration management based on specific rules and regulations and in cooperation with procurement officers
- Support the Operations Manager of day-to-day operations of the project, which include effective administration, procurement of goods and services according to donor regulations and WWF’s internal policies, timely reporting to WWF and donors and the effective coordination and cooperation between project partners.
- Support SOKNOT Coordinator, landscape lead and project managers in updating and follow up of the SOKNOT Procurement Plan and its implementation.
- Closely cooperate with the senior management and operational staff in WWF-Tanzania and WWF-Kenya on relevant topics to ensure continuous program alignment with WWF plans and policies and to support further fundraising.
- Report regularly and flag important issues for follow-up by the SOKNOT Program Coordinator and SOKNOT Landscape Lead.
- In coordination with the Procurement Officer, ensure SOKNOT meetings and conferences are organized well with easy availability of Venue, meals and other facilities.
- Assist with the implementation of WWF’s Environmental and Social Safeguard Framework, especially concerning risk assessment and mitigation with regard to procurements and financial management
- Identifies and aligns with the core values of the WWF organization: Courage, Integrity, Respect & Collaboration
- Undertake other duties as appropriate and as may be directed by the Line Manager.
III. PROFILE
Knowledge and Qualification
- A bachelor degree in Business Administration and Management or any other related discipline.
- At least 5 years of professional experience in similar projects working with international donors. Specific experience with Eurpoean or US donors (UK/FCDO, Germany/BMZ, Sweden/SIDA, European Union, USAID etc.) would be of advantage
- At least 2 years of experience of working in complex programs with multiple and diverse implementation partners and stakeholders with cross-cutting themes and multiple objectives.
- Professional experience in the Kenya/Tanzania border area would be of advantage
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Required Skills and Competencies
- Excellent strategic thinking, planning and management skills.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills including the ability for staff capacity development with sensitivity in managing WWF and partner staff
- Familiar with anti-fraud and corruption principles, donor regulations and donor reporting formats
- Excellent written, presentation and communication skills, with excellent fluency in spoken and written English and proficiency in Swahili.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate operational support for different projects and within different timelines
Project title: Southern Kenya-Northern Tanzania Transboundary Program
(SOKNOT-UNGANISHA)
Position title: Social Science Coordinator
Reports to: SOKNOT-UNGANISHA Program Coordinator, Arusha
Location: WWF Arusha Office
I. CONTEXT
With its “Southern Kenya-Northern Tanzania Transboundary Program (SOKNOTUNGANISHA)”
WWF is implementing a multi-sectoral
conservation strategy to secure important wildlife migration corridors
and habitat between protected areas in the Kenyan-Tanzanian border
region, reaching from the areas surrounding Mara-Serengeti in the west
to Tsavo-Mkomazi in the East.
With this strategy the program plans to achieve the following four strategic objectives:
- Poaching and illegal wildlife trade (IWT) of key wildlife species (elephant, rhino, lion, wild dog) and other selected threatened species (giraffe, cheetah, pangolin) are reduced, and the efforts are contributing to communities’ benefits.
- The destruction of key forest, grass-/rangeland and freshwater resources in critical areas is reduced, ensuring free wildlife migration and dispersal, improved ecosystem-flows, biodiversity and community benefits
- Targeted communities in critical areas in the vicinity of wildlife migration corridors and dispersal areas are benefitting from sustainable and ecofriendly enterprises and value chains. IV. Governance structures, policies and legal frameworks between Tanzania and Kenya, are improved for sustainable trans-boundary management and are supported by regional and relevant international bodies.
Led by the Kenyan and Tanzanian WWF
Country offices, the program is coordinated through its WWF office in
Arusha and implemented with Kenya and Tanzania country teams of
technical experts and in close cooperation with local Government, NGO
partners and the WWF network.
The advertised position will be based
in the WWF office in Arusha. As a Social Science Coordinator will
support the SOKNOT-UNGANISHA Program Coordinator, local WWF and partner
staff in Northern Tanzania and Southern Kenya landscape.
II. MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Determine major social issues in favor of, or threaten conservation efforts in the SOKNOT landscape.
- Lead social awareness campaign aiming at changing social behavior and community attitude towards conservation.
- Develop stakeholder engagement plans; Take a lead in design, support and documentation of stakeholder analyses in the SOKNOT-UNGANISHA landscape
- Enhance capacities, guide and support WWF and partners in gender-sensitive participatory methods for effective stakeholder engagement
- Provide expert advice and guidance on social related issues that inform SOKNOTUNGANISHA strategies and improve the delivery of landscape projects on the ground
- Develop tools and ensure regular feedback to target groups on project status and impact in close cooperation with the local communications officer
- Provide technical guidance to WWF and partner staff to deliver high quality data and reporting against the WWF M&E framework
- Cooperate closely with global technical advisors of the WWF Network and Practices
- Champion the use of socio-economic data to inform decision-making at all levels
- Communicate findings (from research, monitoring and evaluation activities) across WWF and partner organizations to support learning and adaptation
- Summarize key findings and contributing evidence to proposal development and reporting to donors where required
- Support WWF and Partner staff in the further development, implementation, monitoring and documentation of social safeguards, risk assessments and mitigation plans, methods to ensure free, prior and informed consent of target groups, grievance mechanisms and conflict resolution strategies
- Identifies and aligns with the core values of the WWF organization: Courage, Integrity, Respect & Collaboration
- Advise on the development of social science research projects and partnerships
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III. PROFILI
Knowledge and Qualification
- Postgraduate/graduate degree (or equivalent) in relevant field and/or proven experience in social science/evaluation in international development or environmental conservation
- Demonstrable, substantial practical experience working in community-based conservation or development in a low-income country especially concerning stakeholder analyses, stakeholder engagement and participatory methods
- Practical experience in participatory monitoring, evaluation and research approaches
- Proven experience in the design and implementation of mixed method evaluations in an international development / conservation context
- Quantitative and qualitative research experience, including design, data collection, analysis and interpretation
Required Skills and Competencies
- Strong analytical skills including statistical and / or qualitative analysis and associated software
- Excellent skills in communication of complex information to a diverse range of stakeholders
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Confident, strong interpersonal skills and ability to relate to and work effectively with individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures, at all levels
- Capacity to undertake research and development work independently as well as part of a team
- Experience in capacity building and coaching of staff from different backgrounds in socioeconomic assessment and monitoring approaches
- Wide experience in evaluation design and methods including theory-based
- Experience in the development of innovative measurement
- approaches, quasi-experimental designs, innovative methods and tools
- Previous international organisation / NGO experience
- Experience in the northern Tanzania-Southern Kenya landscape would be of advantage
JOB DESCRIPTION
Position Title: Agroecology Officer (full-time, two-year fixed term contract)
Reports to: SOKNOT Coordinator – WWF-Tanzania
Supervises: None
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Location: Arusha, Tanzania
1. Background and Position Summary
Stretching from Lake Victoria to the Indian Ocean, the Southern Kenya – Northern Tanzania (SOKNOT) transboundary area covers some 134,000 square kilometres. The SOKNOT landscape is famous for conservation areas, including the Serengeti, Masai Mara, Tsavo, Kilimanjaro and the Ngorongoro crater, important biospheres and bird habitats including Lake Natron, Loita, Amboseli, West Kilimanjaro. There are 39 communal conservancies and 2 wildlife management areas (WMAs) that reflect its extraordinary biodiversity and tourism value. The landscape is home to millions of wild animals including threatened and endangered species such as elephant, black rhino, lion, cheetah, hirola and African wild dog. The annual wildlife migrations of up to 1.3 million animals are among the largest worldwide and a main tourist attraction.
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There is a critical interdependence
between people and nature across SOKNOT. Agriculture, including small
scale/supplementary crop farming, and small-scale enterprises are the
main sources of income generally. The rapidly escalating human
population and high levels of rural poverty in wildlife dispersal areas
and priority corridors are key drivers of land-use change, fragmentation
and habitat degradation, increasing encroachment and potential human
and wildlife conflict. Unsustainable agricultural practices to meet a
growing demand for food – in the context of a changing climate – are
threatening the ecological integrity of natural landscapes and the
resilience of smallholder farming within the SOKNOT landscape.
Developing more resilient food systems, anchored on climate resilient
agroecological practices with livestock and natural resource management,
can help communities achieve food security while protecting the planet.
It is both critical and urgent that
wildlife and ecosystem services (including water, grasslands) are valued
and sustained through community control and stewardship through
sustainable food production and consumption systems.
2. Role Description
The Agroecology Officer role is critical in building sustainable food systems for the communities that WWF and its partners support within the SOKNOT landscape, whilst safeguarding critical wildlife habitats.
The primary responsibility of this position will be to lead on the co-creation, development and implementation of an agriculture and food strategy (which will include aspects of sustainable production and consumption) for the SOKNOT landscape, co-create and implement pilots with farming communities and stakeholders, build capacities of stakeholders and share learnings to inform approaches on sustainable food systems across WWF priority landscapes, within the region and globally.
The Agroecology Officer will work with a range of stakeholders across the landscape, including close collaboration with local farming communities, conservancies, partners, and other experts and agencies, supporting the co-creation of sustainable food production models and, in collaboration with the market team/value chain expert, establishing sustainable supply chain models for existing agricultural crops/commodities. Initial ideas include: working with farming communities on integrated land and water use management models along riverine, forest and grassland ecosystems to develop sustainable farming models; co-creation and establishment of demonstration plots/farms for agroecology-based models; exploring the potential of carbon farming; developing models for food loss management; exploring the potential of voluntary standards and other schemes as sustainability accelerators within the target landscape.
3. Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead in the development of a comprehensive agriculture and food implementation plan for the SOKNOT landscape (based on Africa’s Food Future Strategy), including detailed plans to ensure sustainability, in partnership with WWF SOKNOT staff and landscape stakeholders.
- Lead timely and effective design and implementation of agriculture and sustainable food systems projects/activities/interventions across the landscape, aligning with the SOKNOT landscape strategy and the WWF Africa’s Food Future Initiative (AFFI).
- In collaboration with the AFFI team, elevate and fast-track the development, piloting and implementation of agroecology and sustainable food systems solutions aimed at increasing production while protecting nature.
- Support consulting missions related to agriculture and food systems within the landscape.
- Lead agriculture and livestock-related scoping analyses, baseline reviews and other studies aimed at informing or measuring impact of project activities.
- Lead on the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture/livestock-related data and reporting of projects, to track performance/impact and adapt as required.
- Conduct capacity building activities aimed at creating awareness, while facilitating colearning.
- Provide appropriate high-level representation for activities with governments, the private sector and NGOs to develop and implement AFFI actions.
- Provide oversight of project technical and financial management including annual work planning, budgeting and reporting related to agriculture/livestock projects.
- Assist communities in planning, prioritizing and implementing sustainable production and consumption activities in line with agreed work-plans and objectives.
- Support communities to gain access to information, resources and opportunities, and to connect with other relevant stakeholders that are likely to empower them to manage conservation resources more effectively.
- Support fundraising and fund tracking efforts for the agriculture/livestock projects/activities, in collaboration with the SOKNOT Tanzania office leadership.
- Measure the number of benefits (including non-monetary) that households and community members accrue from agriculture/livestock projects.
- On behalf of WWF, establish good working relationships with local communities and their leaders, and endeavour to uphold the reputation of WWF.
- Liaise closely with other Programmes of WWF-Tanzania and the WWF Network in identifying sustainable production and consumption models and ideas that can be replicated and adapted to priority landscapes globally.
- Share and document learnings to support the wider development of resilient community livelihoods in the region and globally.
- Report to key stakeholders, including the preparation of progress reports to donors. Ensure implementation of activities is in line with respective donor grants, expectations and planned outcomes.
- In collaboration with the WWF Communications Unit, contribute to outreach activities, periodic publications and features on community engagement across the WWF Network.
- Identifies and aligns with the core values of the WWF organization: Courage, Integrity, Respect & Collaboration
4. Qualifications
Advanced university degree in the field of agricultural sciences / Animal Science and management/ agronomy / food systems / natural resource management. (A relevant Master’s degree is an added advantage).
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5. Experience
A minimum of 8 years of active
engagement and experience of working with local rural communities on
agriculture and sustainable production.
6. Key Skills / Competencies
- Experience in developing and implementing agriculture, livestock value chain, and sustainable food systems related projects, preferably in a natural-resource context.
- Skilled in financial and planning, managing large budgets and project management.
- Familiarity with the dynamics and key issues related to agriculture and food systems in Kenya and Tanzania.
- Understanding of factors related to the agriculture- conservation nexus.
- Ability to work effectively in a multicultural and diverse setting.
- Understanding of and experience supporting gender and climate change issues is a must.
- Experience dealing with power differentials and inequalities within and across communities is desirable.
- Ability to build good relationships and work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders in a respectful, participatory manner.
- Experience engaging with ‘hard to reach’ members of society is desirable.
- Experience working with communities to support natural resource management and agriculture.
- Experience with participatory (action) research and co-creation of conservation initiatives with a wide range of stakeholders is highly desirable.
- Ability to organize and host community meetings, with strong diplomatic skills.
- A command of written and spoken English and spoken Swahili; knowledge of Masai community is highly desirable and an added advantage.
- Understanding of socio-economic and cultural aspects of wildlife conservation, including drivers of human-wildlife conflict, poaching and habitat degradation.
- Experience with qualitative and quantitative social science research methods, including surveys, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, research on sensitive topics and their analysis; understanding of research ethics.
- Self-driven with a proactive approach to problem solving.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and as part of a team.
- Frequent field trips away from assigned location, potentially overnight and during weekends.
- Ability to communicate effectively (written and verbal) with a wide range of collaborators/audiences, including proven ability to write project and donor reports.
- High levels of computer literacy; competent use of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint and Word).
- Commitment to WWF and its mission.
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7. Working Relationships
External: Interacts frequently with consultants, researchers, donors, government departments and other agencies, conservation officials in the target countries, development agencies, communities, NGOs and INGOs.
Internal: Interacts frequently with a range of WWF office staff, including WWF-Tanzania and WWF-Kenya staff, WWF Food Practice representatives, and WWF International -Africa.
Mode of Application
Applications must include a cover letter & CV with full contact details of three referees. It should be addressed to the Head of People & Culture and submitted via email to hresources@wwftz.org by February 17, 2023. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and interviews will take place in Arusha.
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