Summary
Date Posted: Friday, November 18, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
What we can achieve together
• Africa Carbon Catalyst (ACC)will support building a portfolio of NCS projects that demonstrate scale, impact and durable lasting outcomes for people, climate, and nature. They works across programs and projects in Africa to support the design and implementation of NCS projects, ensuring they meet best practice standards in relation to community engagement and consultation, community rights, project governance and benefit sharing mechanisms to maximize returns to communities that are both fair and equitable. Work closely with TNC programs, partners and other project contributors in a collaborative approach to ensuring projects’ community aspects are designed and implemented in accordance with best practice, standards including both external e.g. Voluntary Carbon Markets, and internal e.g. TNC Human Rights Principles and Safeguards, and Bar of Excellence for high quality carbon projects.

We're looking for you
• Africa Carbon Catalyst (ACC)will be an authority on IPLC dimensions of NCS projects providing oversight, guidance, and support to NCS projects to meet and maintain required social standards and safeguards. Reporting to the Carbon Markets Director, the position will work closely with other colleagues across teams including the AFCC Program, the Indigenous People and Local Communities (IPLC) Strategy Lead in Africa and Global. The position will be located in any of the following TNC office locations: Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, and will require regular travel to the field (up to 15%). No employment visas or assistance is being offered with this position except for the local labour employment requirements

Specific role and responsibility scope include:
• Manage a complex workload providing technical support to a pipeline of projects spanning different NCS pathways and geographies at different stages of development.
• Deliver training and capacity building on the requirements and their implementation of internal and external standards relevant to carbon projects to project field and management staff.
• Deliver tools and technical support in development of plans and materials for community consultation processes.
• Analyze legal and policy instruments relevant to community tenure, governance, natural resource management and climate to advise projects how to navigate and leverage these.
• Liaise with consultants and project contributors to review and analyze social data and develop plans for communities data collection in accordance with best practice.
• Advise the development project governance structures and benefit sharing models for projects that are relevant and sensitive to social contexts and provide empowerment and fair and equitable betterment for local communities.
• Review and evaluate social aspects of projects and coordinate the relevant internal processes to ensure adherence with TNC’s requirements for carbon projects across the Conservancy and make recommendations based on analysis, experience and judgment.
• Act independently and exercise independent judgment to identify and solve problems.
• Demonstrate sensitivity and integrity when working across complex challenges.
• Work diligently in an organized approach to drive processes and coordinate the exchange of information, documentation, and data between TNC and partners.
• Work as a critical team member and managing external relationships with key partners and stakeholders with responsibility for work with substantial project and organizational risks.
• Write confidently to a high level providing succinct analysis to a range of audiences.
• Provide thought-leadership on community dimensions of carbon projects and make recommendations to the Conservancy and other stakeholders, share relevant knowledge and learnings to drive TNC’s agenda to improve carbon project quality by maximizing returns to communities in Africa.

What you'll bring
• Bachelor’s degree in community conservation, natural resource management, international development or related field, and 4 years related experience, or equivalent combination.
• Deep understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of community-based natural resource management field; particularly community consultation processes and a rights-based approach to conservation.
• Experience of working in the field with communities on engagement and sensitization to achieve and maintain FPIC.
• Passionate about community rights and sustainable development, with an ambition to become a global expert on their intersection with NCS.
• Experience in partnership development and management with non-profit partners, community groups and/or government agencies.
• Organized worker delivering to a high quality, and able to work across multiple projects simultaneously with a varied workload.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Team player that is politically savvy and diplomatic with experience negotiating complex projects.
• Solutions orientation with reference to conflict resolution and mitigation.

Desired qualifications
• Multi-lingual and multi-cultural or cross-cultural experience.
• Knowledge and experience of community-based natural resource management and sustainable development agenda in Africa.
• Knowledge of voluntary carbon standards and the project development cycle process.
• Strong analytical skills and able to synthesis information and data for project documentation.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including ability to negotiate, influence, and persuade.

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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