Programme Officer – Social Assessment of Protected Areas
Protected Areas Programme
Salary £25,000 - £31,000
Fixed Term to December 2015
We are looking for a technically competent, conscientious and motivated Programme Officer to work in the Protected Areas Programme team at UNEP-WCMC and the main purpose of the job is to undertake project management, provide administrative organisational and technical support to the implementation of a range of protected area projects, but especially those which assess social impacts and other issues relevant to human dimensions of protected areas and conservation.
A key project within the Programme is the MAVA foundation-funded project on assessing the social vulnerability of communities living in and around protected areas inWest Africain the context of climate change, and other projects on social assessment of protected area management.
This role provides the opportunity to contribute to this and other high profile portfolio of projects, including the possibility of supporting policy processes, convening partnerships, convening workshops and visiting partner countries. This could be a fantastic career move to contribute to a global agenda within a role that will stretch and challenge you.
You will be given the opportunity to represent the Centre at relevant conferences and workshops, both within theUKand internationally and will gain job satisfaction through the successful delivery of important publications, reports and other information outputs.
In return, we can provide you with the chance to grow your technical skills, develop your project and management skills and strengthen your expertise. The programme staff are experienced, ambitious and results orientated providing an excellent environment to develop and contribute your own skills. In addition to training and development opportunities, we offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including generous pension contributions.
If you are looking for a rewarding and challenging post within a group of like minded people working at the science-policy interface, we want to hear from you. Please complete our application form and send this with a CV and covering letter to recruitment@unep-wcmc.org by 12 July 2013.
You should note that this is not a UN post and we can only accept applications from those eligible to work in the UK.
WCMC is a UK charity, based in Cambridge, which supports the United Nations Environment Programme. We work in collaboration with UNEP, under the banner of UNEP-WCMC. Our mission is to evaluate and highlight the many values of biodiversity and put authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making. Since our establishment in the 1970s, the Centre has been at the forefront of the compilation, management, analysis and dissemination of global biodiversity information, and has an outstanding record of achievement.