Livelihoods Specialist
Major Responsibilities: Under the supervision of Conservation Program Director, the Livelihoods Specialist will be responsible for effective mainstreaming of sustainable livelihoods approach/agenda into the thematic components of conservation and development program and processes of WWF Nepal. This position will be responsible for development and implementation of livelihoods and economic recovery initiatives. This position will be responsible for strategic planning, partnership building, resource mobilization, monitoring, and evaluation of sustainable livelihoods agenda to document lesson learnt and support for fundraising.
Qualifications: A Master’s degree in Sociology, Sustainable Rural Development, Forestry, or relevant Environmental Conservation fields with at least five years of field experience in implementing and managing sustainable livelihoods work is required. The Livelihood Specialist must have strong diplomacy, conflict resolution and listening skills, and capacity for impartiality.
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Interested applicants are requested to download the application form and submit it with an application letter to the email address listed below by 17:00 hours on 11th October 2021. Please mention the position you are applying for as the subject. Emails without an application letter and completed application form will not be entertained. Only shortlisted candidates will be informed. Detailed TOR for the above-mentioned position can be downloaded from our website.
Email: hr@wwfnepal.org
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WWF is the world’s leading independent conservation organization originated from Switzerland in 1961 and currently running in more than 100 countries across 6 continents. The program started from conservation of wildlife to broader concept of building future where humans can live in harmony with nature. WWF has created 1,480 ecoregions that categorize the world into its natural ecosystems. Nepal with Bhutan, northeast India, southeast Tibet and northern Myanmar, falls under the Eastern Himalaya region housing the threatened species Snow Leopards, Bengal Tigers and One-horned Rhinos.
It was in 1967, WWF initiated WWF Nepal with a rhino conservation program in Chitwan. To keep up with the evolving face of conservation and environmental movement, WWF Nepal’s focus progressed from its localized efforts in conservation of single species in 1960s, integrated conservation and development approach in 1990s, to a new horizon of landscape level conservation encompassing national, regional and global scales of complexity in early 2000s.
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