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Forests Programme Officer

We are looking for a Forests Programme Officer to join our Conservation team and contribute to BirdLife’s Forests Programme.


Application deadline
Sunday, 04 August 2024– 23:45

Location
Cambridge, UK (hybrid working)

Full time
35 hours per week. We may consider reduced hours for the right candidate

Contract
2 year fixed term

Salary
£36,000 – £38,000 per annum plus competitive 12% pension benefit

Annual Leave
25 days pro rata in year 1, increasing by 1 day p/a to 28 days


BirdLife International is the world’s largest nature conservation partnership. Through our unique local-to-global approach, we deliver high impact and long-term conservation for the benefit of nature and people.

We are looking for a Forests Programme Officer to join our Conservation Department in Cambridge, UK. In this role you will contribute to BirdLife’s Forests Programme, which exists to improve protection, advance restoration and promote sustainable use, across a set of key forest landscapes around the world.

How you will do this:

  • Leading the BirdLife Forest Impact Accelerator (60%), which seeks to build sustainable funding and financing solutions for priority forest landscapes. This will include:
    • Leading the Accelerator strategy and monitoring progress and impact
    • Designing and adaptively managing the Accelerator’s workplan and budget
    • Designing and delivering training programs for Accelerator cohorts
    • Managing proposal and grant-making processes for seed grants
    • Coordinating the Acceleration Coordination Team (ACT)
    • Leading fundraising efforts and donor reporting and planning and delivering promotional events
  • Leading the BirdLife Forest Landscape Restoration portfolio (40%). This will include:
    • Collaborating with Regional Forest Coordinators to create a diverse portfolio of high-quality forest restoration projects
    • Facilitating knowledge exchange and contribute to internal restoration guidance and resources in relation to forest landscape restoration
    • Representing BirdLife in the Trillion Trees Partnership and delivering against the Trillion Trees work plans
    • Supporting the expansion and oversight of the Trillion Trees Reforest Fund and other funding mechanisms
    • Managing global and regional restoration grants and funding as needed.

Ideally you will have:

  • Undergraduate degree in a relevant field (e.g. Natural Resource Management, Conservation, Sustainable Development, Economics, International Relations). Postgraduate qualification is desirable.
  • At least 2 years of experience in supporting or managing tropical forest conservation or restoration work.
  • Proven ability to coordinate multi-stakeholder projects across diverse sectors, geographies, and cultural backgrounds.
  • Expertise in forest and landscape conservation approaches, sustainable funding mechanisms, and trends.
  • Experience with monitoring and evaluation, including data collection and use in conservation.
  • Desirable knowledge areas include conservation business planning, forest carbon project development, conservation enterprise development, and fund development.

See the full job description here.

Some of our benefits:

  • We are able to offer a hybrid model of working on-site and from home/remote for most roles, which helps to ensure a flexible work-life balance.
  • A chance to work in the award-winning David Attenborough Building, which brings together much of the Cambridge-based conservation community on a ‘conservation campus.’
  • A generous pension scheme, up to 12% company contribution.
  • Holiday starting at 25 days excluding Bank Holidays and increasing for every year of service up to a maximum of 28 days.
  • Full access to LinkedIn Learning with access to more than 13,000 high-quality, on-demand courses.
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Employee Assistance Programme, including access to Health Assured online health portal (webinars, nutritional advice, 4-week programmes, financial wellbeing and more).

BirdLife values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Find out more about our Diversity statement.

We are committed to building and maintaining an inclusive and supportive culture, a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We aim to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity.

We will consider putting into place appropriate reasonable adjustments for candidates who may have a disability.

Interviews will be held on 13 and 14 August.