Director, Resilience Builder

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with EDM team to set strategic direction and support emerging resilience practices related to conservation programming.
• Leads project management including work planning, monitoring and evaluation, and communications related to new and ongoing projects and grants.
• Stays current with emerging practices and review academic literature and evolving practices and monitors and analyzes new technical information, policies, tools, and global trends related to integration of environment, DRR, CCA and resilience.
• Designs and develops training tools and materials and leads DRR and resilience training sessions.
• Documents learning from projects to improve project programming, training and communications.
• Contributes to programmatic fundraising including preparing and/or finalize project proposals, scopes of work, budgets, and administrative information for contracts and to ensure compliance with donor requirements.
• Travels up to 25% time to project sites to provide relevant technical training and capacity building Assists in-country partners to integrate disaster recovery, restoration and risk reduction concepts and approaches into conservation and sustainable developments strategies for WWF priority places.
• Regularly presents updates on these various initiatives internally to WWF staff and externally at workshops and conferences, where appropriate.
• Interacts daily with other program staff and departments to advise and coordinate project activities or to obtain and disseminate information.
• Interact regularly with representatives of WWF-International, other WWF offices and associate organizations, grantees, and consultants. Communicate with representatives of conservation organizations, universities, NGOs, corporations, and/or government agencies.
• Contributes to WWF Resilience Strategy and other key initiatives as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Key Competencies
• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving: Anticipates challenges, analyzes complex issues, and develops practical, forward-looking solutions.
• Relationship Building & Collaboration: Builds trust and works effectively across teams, partners, and stakeholders in a matrixed, global environment.
• Communication & Influence: Clearly communicates complex ideas, engages diverse audiences, and presents effectively in both written and verbal formats.
• Project Leadership & Execution: Leads projects with strong organization, prioritization, and accountability while delivering high-quality results under pressure.
• Adaptability & Resilience: Operates independently in dynamic, high-pressure environments while managing competing priorities and deadlines.
• Skills and Abilities
• 10 + years' experience with an advanced degree, including experience in disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and/or disaster recovery and reconstruction.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required, including effective public speaking and the ability to communicate complex issues both verbally and in written form.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and produce high-quality work under time constraints.
• Excellent organizational and project leadership skills.
• Excellent training and capacity building skills.
• Proven ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a matrixed team environment.
• Strong research and analytical skills.
• Ability to operate with independence, under pressure, and to meet deadlines and commitments.
• Familiarity with Microsoft office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access

Additional Information

Major Function World Wildlife Fund (WWF) one of the world's leading conservation organization, seeks a Director to support strategic planning, communication, research and analysis, and implementation of program activities for existing and new partnerships and projects in collaboration with other WWF teams and field offices. The Director will 1) contribute to strategic planning and development of lead development of emerging resilience practices, 2) manage implementation of key projects including capacity building and training projects 3) support ongoing Environmental and Disaster Management (EDM) programmatic activities related to integrating environment and disaster risk reduction (DRR) into conservation programming and partnerships and 4) provide technical support for disaster and crisis response including research and analysis, project design and fundraising.

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