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Projects' Manager
Hiring Organization:
Orangutan Foundation
Date Posted:
2008-06-23
Position Description:
Position:Projects’ Manager
Reporting to: The Foundation’s Director
Overall responsibility:
To manage all of Foundation’s projects in Indonesia to ensure they are implemented properly, on time, and in accordance with both their contractual basis and local customs and regulations.
Specific duties and responsibilities:
• Manage all of the Orangutan Foundation’s projects in Indonesia to ensure their agreed objectives are achieved and they are implemented and administered properly in accordance with best professional practise, including producing work plans, budgets, technical reports and financial reports in a timely manner.
• Ensure proper controls are maintained to safeguard funds sent to the field, as well as ensuring that all expenditure is properly accounted for, and proper supporting documents are kept of all financial transactions.
• Ensure proper working relationships are maintained with local partners and government institutions, especially collaborating NGO’s, Forestry/PHKA representative agencies, police and local government (this includes seeking approval of work plans, co-ordinating implementation of activities, and submitting progress reports, to government agencies).
• Host and co-ordinate official visits from government agencies, donors, film crews, journalists, researchers, partner NGO’s and other approved official guests.
• Submit quarterly budget requests to the UK office in respect of individual projects and the Foundation’s own operational requirements.
• Ensure sufficient photographic documentation and field reports of the Foundation’s activities are sent to the London office in a timely manner, especially content suitable for inclusion in the Foundation’s newsletter ‘Red Ape’.
• Develop project proposals and specific fund-raising activities.
• Ensure the Foundation’s Director is informed of all important developments in the field.
• Carry out any other duties as required by the Foundation’s Director or its Indonesia Programmes’ Manager.
Qualifications/Experience:
Candidate profile
The preferred candidate should have the following skills and experience:
Essential attributes:
• A relevant degree or equivalent experience
• At least 5 years’ experience in nature conservation and/or natural resources management
• At least 3 years’ project management experience, including financial management and financial reporting
• Proven communication and leadership skills, as well as proven capacity to collaborate effectively with government institutions and work effectively in a team with numerous collaborators and stakeholders
• Demonstrable commitment to conservation issues, initiative, and problem-solving abilities
Desirable attributes:
• At least 5 years’ experience of project management
• Experience of working in Asia, preferably in Indonesia
• Experience in the following skills:
- Community education programmes and public relations work
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and mapping
- Reforestation and/ or tree nursery management
Salary/funding:
Negotiable, depending on experience
Application Deadline:
15 July 2008
Comments:
Please send your application, comprising a short covering letter, CV, and contact details of two referees, to:
Ashley Leiman OBE
Director
Orangutan Foundation
7 Kent Terrace, London NW1 4RP, UK
Contact
Information:
Ashley Leiman
7 Kent Terrace
London NW1 4RP
United Kingdom
Telephone Number:
020 7724 2912
Fax Number:
020 7706 2613
Website:
http://www.orangutan.org.uk
E-mail Address:
info@orangutan.org.uk
