Project Designer at World Agroforestry Centre
1 month ago
The World Agroforestry Centre, is an international institute headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and founded in 1978. The Centre specializes in the sustainable management, protection and regulation of tropical rainforest and natural reserves.
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
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.
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.
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.
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