Programme Officer (Projects Coordinator)

Programme Officer (Projects Coordinator) (Ref: AD668)

Full-time PermanentProtected Areas Programme
Salary circa £23,000

UNEP-WCMC is seeking an experienced Programme Officer to coordinate and manage the delivery of a GEF full sized project on Climate Change and Protected Areas in West Africa (CCPAWA), and provide management support to other Protected Areas projects.

The successful candidate will act as project coordinator for the CCPAWA project, establishing the project's internal working procedures and coordination mechanisms with project countries and technical partners, to ensure adequate compliance of project implementation with UNEP procedures. S/he will hold a Higher Degree in natural or social sciences including conservation biology, environmental science, geography or international relations. We are looking for a candidate who has demonstrated understanding of the issues and concepts related to protected areas, climate change, biodiversity and development. S/he will be a highly motivated self starter, with a good balance of enthusiasm and realism for finding solutions to global biodiversity challenges.

Applicants who meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification for this post, are invited, by 2 August 2010, to complete and send an application form attaching their CV to recruitment@unep-wcmc.org. As the successful candidate will need to be fluent in both written English and French, we are asking for the Application Form to be completed in English and for a separate covering letter to be completed and submitted in French.

Applications are invited from all nationalities, however candidates must be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this position. Prospective candidates should note that this is not a UN post but is employed by the UK Charity WCMC 2000 on behalf of UNEP-WCMC.

Who We Are: The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), based in Cambridge UK, is the specialist biodiversity information and assessment centre of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), run cooperatively with WCMC 2000, a UK charity. UNEP-WCMC's mission is to evaluate and highlight the many values of biodiversity and put authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making. Since its establishment in the 1970s, it has been at the forefront of the compilation, management, analysis and dissemination of global biodiversity information, and has an outstanding record of achievement.