Conservation Director at World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Kenya

Are you creative, dynamic and driven by a passion for biodiversity and vision for a world where people live in harmony with nature?

Location: WWF Kenya’s Office in Nairobi.

The Role: This role leads on the exciting challenge to achieve this, and encompasses both our investments in conservation and social development programmes, and in organisational development to further strengthen a WWF Kenya office that deliver them.

Responsibilities

• delivering against annual and longer term objectives, achieving the agreed results;
• managing the performance and development of your team to deliver the agreed results;
• Prioritising, adapting and making recommendations as necessary in a fast-moving context.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• feel motivated by the challenge and opportunity of managing people, and holding them accountable for delivery;
• have energy, drive and resilience, and the capacity to flourish responding to complexity and competing demands;
• be able to function as an organisational leader owning responsibility for organisation-wide goals, as well as focusing on the specific priorities of your own role;
• know how to influence and persuade others, operating in an international context;
• Understand the realities of delivering conservation and social development programmes, and of operating in the Kenyan context.

Job Requirements

This is the ideal job for you if you have

• an advanced degree (masters or higher) in Biology, Natural Resources, Environment, Social Science or related discipline
• At least 10 years of experience in conservation planning and programme design, M&E, audits and evaluations both at the conceptual and practical level
• 7 years post-graduate professional direct experience in relation to environment, development, conservation or sustainability; and
• at least 5 years in a senior conservation leadership role