Program Coordinator – Community Conservation

Program Coordinator – Community Conservation
Reports to: Technical Manager – Protected Areas
Location: Fort Portal

Tasks & Responsibilities
• Ensuring local communities, civil society partners and local government authorities are aware of collaborative forest and wildlife management relevant policies & laws including roles in benefit sharing, access and tenure rights.
• Provide training and other forms of capacity building to Protected Areas and forest authorities, communities, Community Based Organisations, local government, and NGO service providers for the planning and implementation of community based natural resource management and cross cutting issues.
• Support implementing partners to facilitate development & implementation of Co-management arrangements for central forest reserves and national parks.
• Support mitigation of conflicts related to forest and wildlife protected areas; and those conflicts that may arise as a result of REPA’s interventions.
• Facilitating emergence of Civil Society platforms to champion accountability and good governance agenda at Sub County and district level in respect to service delivery related to revenue sharing, problem animal management, resource access and other ENR issues.
• With guidance of the TM, facilitate partners to influence inclusion of protected area issues in the planning and implementation of district and sub county development plans.
• Support participatory identification, viability and potential assessment, designing and implementation of appropriate economic interventions (e.g. forest based enterprises, VSLA and others) that deliver both conservation and community livelihoods benefits.
• Solicit and facilitate access to pro-poor business development services (BDS) including training, product and market development and financial services
• Support documentation and dissemination of the models

Minimum Qualifications & Experience
• A good three year Bachelors’ Degree in natural resource management, but a Masters is an added advantage.
• At least 3 years experience in a similar work.
• Understanding of local protected area costs and benefits
• Experience in organizational capacity building and advocacy processes and methodologies.
• Knowledge of government structures and policies within the forestry and wildlife sectors.
• Experience in facilitating participatory natural resource management initiatives and familiar with stakeholder analysis and conflict management approaches.
• Experience in working with rural communities, local civil society organisations, and local government.
• Excellent facilitation, mobilisation, communication, and documentation.
• Understands institutional and legal frameworks at local and national levels within the Environment and Natural Resources sector
• Fair understanding of financing mechanisms of Environment services
• Previous interaction or engagement with climate change discussions


Application Procedures:
Interested persons with the above requirements should submit typed applications together with detailed curriculum vitea (CV) giving day time telephone contacts and names and addresses of 3 (three) referees as well as copies of professional certificates and transcripts not later than May 9, 2011. Only successful candidates will be invited for interviews at short notice, applicants who do not receive any response within three weeks of the closing date should consider their application unsuccessful.

Applications should be addressed to: Human Resource Officer, CARE International in Uganda, P.O. Box 7280, Kampala Or
recruitment@careuganda.org


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