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WRI seeks a seasoned senior manager to lead a team of professionals and partners around the world as they embark upon the implementation of an initiative on Forest and Landscape Restoration.
The initiative aims to catalyse restoration of at least 10 million hectares of degraded and deforested landscapes in at least 5 countries (including Brazil and Indonesia) by 2017 as a new contribution to The Bonn Challenge. The Senior Manager will be responsible for managing the restoration team of WRI staff, contractors, and partners internationally, working with the Director or WRI’s Forests Initiative to achieve transformative impact.
For some, forest and landscape restoration might secure freshwater supplies, curb erosion, and prevent landslides. For others, restoration would capture carbon and protect local biodiversity. For yet others, restoration would provide food security and local biomass supplies. For nearly all, restoration will create jobs and green the economy. The beauty of restoration is that it can offer benefits for everyone.
The initiative is affiliated with the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration, forms a part of Germany’s
International Climate Initiative, and is supported by the Federal German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
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Specifically the responsibilities include:
- Manage the three strategic components of WRI’s forest and landscape restoration initiative?inspire,
support, and mobilize restoration.
- Build collaborative partnerships in temperate, tropical and boreal regions, including intensive work in Brazil and Indonesia.
- Help to represent the initiative around the world.
- Provide input on fundraising and assisting with proposal preparation, and assist with reporting to donors.
- Help ensure the initiative meets user needs and surpasses their expectations.
Management
- Manage the restoration team, including guiding and monitoring the execution of strategy and achievement of outcomes.
- Manage initiative progress, ensure successful completion of key deliverables, and report regularly on progress to initiative partners and the WRI Management Team.
- Review and edit materials to ensure they meet WRI’s high standards for quality.
- Liaise with the WRI Executive Team and WRI Board on related strategic and operational issues.
Leadership
- Articulate a compelling and coherent vision and strategy for WRI’s restoration initiative that inspires audiences internationally.
- Liaise with experts internationally and nationally, building WRI’s presence in the field.
- Secure and manage initiative partnerships and co-lead fundraising efforts with a range of donors.
- Serve as one of the spokespersons for the initiative.
Fundraising
- Implement a sustainable funding model to allow for strategic growth of the Initiative.
- Source and secure long-term funding for the initiative in collaboration with other WRI staff. This includes building on existing relationships with bilateral and multilateral agencies, foundations, corporations, and individual donors, as well as cultivating and maintaining new relationships.
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Professional Qualifications
- Advanced degree.
- Minimum 10 years of management and team leadership experience.
- Excellent strategic thinking as well as quantitative analytical skills.
- Demonstrated experience leading ambitious projects with multiple funders, tight timelines,
international partners, and complex audiences.
- Ability to communicate in a clear and compelling way to a wide range of audiences both verbally and in writing (a writing assessment will be required for all finalists for this position).
- Proven ability to manage a team of experts for specific results.
- Strong familiarity with the challenges of development and sustainability.
- Willingness to travel internationally, sometimes at short notice.
- Ideally (but not required) fluency in one or more languages (such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Bahasa Indonesia) in addition to native-level fluency in English.
Management Style and Personal Attributes
- Patience, resilience, and tenacity along with an abundance of energy, enthusiasm, creativity, common sense and well-honed strategic judgment.
- A proven commitment to “customer service.”
- Strong personal diplomacy, including a highly professional temperament, the highest level of personal and professional integrity, and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
- A sense of urgency about the mission of WRI and the need to address the environment and development challenges confronting humankind.
- Outstanding management and planning skills.
- A management style that is open, collaborative and results-oriented; a style that inspires trust and motivates staff to work hard and well together, provides them with a clear sense of direction, and respects their capabilities and independence.
- Superb cross-cultural interpersonal skills with an impressive history of forging strong relationships with multiple stakeholders, strong listening skills and an ability to relate well to people at all levels.
- Stamina, including the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and under deadline pressure, personal grace in dealing with a broad spectrum of personalities, and good humor in leading the
day-to-day work of the department.
Accountability/Supervision
- Open, collaborative and results-oriented; a style that inspires trust and motivates staff to work hard and well together, provide team with a clear sense of direction, and respects their capabilities and independence.
- Ability to influence across national and cultural boundaries, including senior professionals, consultants and staff external to WRI.
- Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
- Provide guidance and direction to the team to manage the quality development of annual project plans and the cascading of those plans into individuals goals throughout the department.
Communication
- An ability to consistently communicate with clarity: Excellent writing, speaking, and presentation skills.
- An advanced ability to provide clear direction and expectations within the team and to the broad audience the team supports.
- Manage the team on a day-to-day basis, motivate staff and identify and manage conflicts where they arise.
- Ensure that department outcomes meet or exceed WRI standards for institutional excellence
- Contribute to WRI’s overall management through participation in WRI’s Management Team
Teamwork
- Is considered a leader on the team. Is well respected for competence and ability to maintain key relationships, reduce conflict and create a positive and high performing work environment.
- A proven commitment to internal customer service. Strong personal diplomacy, including a highly professional temperament, the highest level of personal and professional integrity, and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
- Humility, patience, resiliency, and tenacity along with an abundance of energy, enthusiasm, creativity, common sense and well-honed strategic judgment that establishes early credibility and ease of partnerships with other members of the team.
- Superb cross-cultural interpersonal skills with an impressive history of forging strong relationships with multiple stakeholders, strong listening skills and an ability to relate well to people at all levels.
- An engagement in business partnership from an administrative support perspective with the programs and projects of WRI.
Salary: Commensurate with education, experience and position responsibilities. WRI offers a comprehensive benefits package.
Reports to: Director, WRI Global Forest Initiative
Interacts internally with: WRI forests team (about 30 people)
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