Project Designer at Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Overview

• This position serves to deliver the technical aspects of CIFOR-ICRAF’s private sector hub Resilient Landscape. Resilient Landscapes turns the scientific knowledge of CIFOR-ICRAF into impact investment opportunities that transform landscapes and communities worldwide.
• The Project Designer supports strategic development and design of multiple international projects driven by impact.
• The position requires skills at the interface of scientific knowledge, landscape transformation project design and impact investment.
• The project Designer produces high-quality project designs supporting high-impact investments, in line with CIFOR-ICRAF’s mission.

Duties and responsibilities

1.Design projects.

• Based on business, scientific and technical inputs, formulate project designs with an optimized risk-impact ratio and with a duly documented financial and impact.

2. Support project implementation

• When mandated, support the successful implementation of invested projects, seeking to adapt design in a spirit of permanent data driven improvement and seizing opportunities of bringing new science when available.

3. Knowledge asset watch

• Keep up-to-date with CIOFOR-ICRAF’s work that is relevant to impact investment, translate CIFOR-ICRAF’s knowledge assets into actionable elements of project design and maintain a network of actionable contacts inside the organization and its scientific and operational partners.

Requirements

• Degree or significant project experience in Agronomy, Forestry, ecology, oriented towards landscape operations.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience designing and implementing rural development projects with quantified results.
• Track record of interaction with businesses and scientific organizations, resulting in familiarity with concepts and jargons of both.
• Demonstrated project design and management skills, with a specific expertise operational expertise in the design of projects with a carbon credit component.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is a must. Other languages with strong representation in the intertropical area is a differential.

Education, knowledge and experience

• Degree or significant project experience in Agronomy, Forestry, ecology, oriented towards landscape operations.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience designing and implementing rural development projects with quantified results.
• Track record of interaction with businesses and scientific organizations, resulting in familiarity with concepts and jargons of both.
• Demonstrated project design and management skills, with a specific expertise operational expertise in the design of projects with a carbon credit component.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is a must. Other languages with strong representation in the intertropical area is a differential.