Technical Specialist, Brazil, Mining and Energy

Technical Specialist, Brazil, Mining and Energy
Fauna & Flora International

Salary: Negotiable depending on experience
Start Date: As soon as possible
Duration of Contract: Two-year fixed term contract (with potential to extend subject to business need and finding availability)
Location: Fauna & Flora International, Brazil (Brasilia desirable)

Founded in 1903, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is the world’s longest-established international conservation organisation.  Our vision is to create a sustainable future for the planet where biodiversity is conserved by the people living closest to it.  We aim to do this through the conservation of threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take account of human needs. We have become a trusted entity in the world of conservation.  Today FFI is active in over 40 countries.

FFI has been working with the private sector for nearly 20 years.  Working with business has evolved, from a corporate partnerships programme to a series of strategic alliances, collaborations and field interventions. This way of working is core to FFI’s continued success and positioning in the conservation arena. We provide innovative solutions to biodiversity challenges including biodiversity strategies, biodiversity management planning, offsets, risk and opportunity assessment, and are increasing our work on IFC’s and EBRD’s Performance Standards and requirements. Our aspiration is to create an environment where business makes a net positive contribution to biodiversity conservation.  FFI focuses its strategy for engaging with the business sector on three main themes:

• Direct partnerships with companies to help them identify and manage their impacts on biodiversity, ranging from advising on biodiversity policy issues, to assisting companies in developing and delivering biodiversity strategies and action plans
• Identifying and influencing the levers for change in business performance (such as the financial markets) to drive a long term process of positive change in the way that business manages its impacts on biodiversity
• Tracking, investigating and responding to issues relevant to both business and biodiversity by developing innovative partnerships

We are currently working with the following companies:  Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Eni E&P, BP, British American Tobacco, Holcim, BHP Billiton and many others.

FFI will work with companies that are strategically committed to effective biodiversity management and conservation.  We encourage operations to work to understand and manage their impacts on biodiversity, following the mitigation hierarchy and aspiring to global best practice.  

Opportunities exist in the management of biodiversity and ecosystem services and the Technical Specialist,Brazil, will need to be familiar with environmental markets mechanisms and the potential value of natural capital.

We are seeking a highly motivated, skilled and experienced individual to provide technical, management and coordination expertise to our work programmes and initiatives with business inBrazil. The Technical Specialist,Brazilwill have responsibility for managing exciting partnerships, with predominately mining and energy businesses willing to implement biodiversity management at sites acrossBrazil. You will contribute to the development of new partnerships with both business and national NGOs, helping to build capacity of these partners to work together inBraziland internationally to address this growing need.

You must work effectively with FFI’s Mining and Energy Programme, the Agricultural Landscapes Programme and regional teams in order to cover a diverse work load. At the same time, you must be able to work with a high degree of autonomy and capacity to implement your components of the programme effectively and to fulfil partnership commitments.

Ideally, you will have a range of experience in the NGO and business sectors. Experience working in cross-sector partnerships would be an advantage. You will have a strategic, pragmatic and lateral approach to problem solving, and exhibit excellent technical, presentation and project management skills.

This role will involve collaboration and coordination with a range of FFI staff and will require significant national travel and some international travel to meet the objectives and requirements of the programme.

For further details and to apply please visit: http://www.fauna-flora.org/about/jobs/

The closing date for applications is Sunday 7 July 2013.  No agencies please.

FFI values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity