Major Responsibilities:
The Social Scientist leads the planning, coordination, communication and implementation of the AHM Project activities to integrate social science into conservation planning and practice. He/she conducts research and analysis, provides technical assistance to WWF country offices and field teams, and develops and delivers capacity building resources and activities. Specifically, he/she facilitates the consolidation of activities in project sites to maximize the effectiveness of integrating conservation, development and climate adaptation, promotes the full integration of these activities within the target areas with communities, local authorities and local partners, and ensures that the activities are informed by social science parameters.
Qualifications:
A Master’s degree in social science (anthropology, economics, human geography, political science, psychology, sociology, etc.) is required. A Ph.D. degree in a related discipline is preferred. The position requires five years of experience in international biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation or a related field; experience in performance measurement and program evaluation is preferred. The Social Scientist must have excellent communication skills along with strong, analytical, organizational and project management skills.
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Social Scientist**Apply before: 17:00 hours on 3rd February, 2016.
Interested applicants are requested to download the application form and send the same with an application letter to the email address 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.
