KAZA Project Coordinator: Wildlife Corridors (2 year fixed-term contract)

Position Overview

We are looking for an WWF KAZA CORRIDORS COORDINATOR - a dedicated, detail-oriented, passionate, creative, team player and committed professional who is always willing to push boundaries and exemplifies integrity and empathy. 

The incumbent, who will be recruited and administered by WWF Namibia, will support identifying, securing, and facilitating key transboundary wildlife corridors across the KAZA landscape by integrating corridor conservation into the KAZA Conservation Strategy and Action Plan, the KAZA integrated master and subregional development plans (IDP) planning processes, and into the exploration and development of potential BNS opportunities, thus ensuring connectivity remains at the heart of all transboundary planning efforts.

Main Functions

• Leadership and management: planning, budgeting, reporting, procurement, as well as monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• Accountability functions: timely reporting and support the tracking and management of project budgets and expenditures, ensuring alignment with approved work plans and project implementation is within the budget and aligned to institutional and donor requirements.
• Monitoring, evaluation and learning: Develop project monitoring, evaluation and learning system and facilitate regional knowledge exchange through KAZA TFCA Secretariat mechanisms and implement monitoring frameworks to track progress toward EU NaturAfrica objectives and impact.
• Project planning: Set up an integrated planning process, ensuring alignment with various KAZA framework documents and strategies, regional environmental assessments and planning documents, global commitments, and building important climate change requirements into the IDPs and the other main actors in the NAF project.
• Relevance and integration of outputs: Ensure integration of information related to the wildlife corridors are fully integrated into the KAZA Conservation Strategy and Action Plan, the KAZA integrated master and subregional development plans (IDP) planning processes and potential bankable nature solutions (BNS).
• Stakeholders’ engagement: Coordination and implementation of inclusive and transparent stakeholders’ engagement through in-country and transboundary stakeholder’s workshops and consultations, in full compliance with WWF’s ESSF requirements and standards.