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Rights and Community Manager-réf:2025/036 - Maroantsetra 

23/05/2025 |  WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY |  Contrat 1 an renouvelable |  Date limite de candidature : 15 Juin 2025 |  Maroantsetra 
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The WCS Madagascar Program works throughout Madagascar to ensure the long-term conservation of the country’s unique biological diversity with a focus on activities in our priority landscape/seascapes. We achieve this through terrestrial and marine protected area management, engagement with local communities to support them to become effective stewards of natural resources, environmental education, and a program of applied conservation science.

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a U.S.-registered international conservation NGO with field programs in several African countries, including Madagascar. The MaMaBay landscape (Makira-Masoala-Baie d'Antongil) in northeastern Madagascar is among the centers of biodiversity endemism in Madagascar. This landscape contains the country's largest block of rainforest and is home to extraordinary biodiversity. Some 230,000 people live in the landscape and depend heavily on natural resources for their daily livelihoods.
WCS has been active in MaMaBay for 25 years, from creating and managing protected areas to community development, reforestation and forest restoration, ecological research, and local fisheries management. As part of its support for nature conservation in the MaMaBay landscape, WCS is implementing a community conservation program to improve the socio-economic living conditions of communities bordering marine and terrestrial protected areas, supporting their commitment to biodiversity conservation. Large quantities of data have been collected, with numerous projects already implemented or underway.
Despite this program with many community projects focusing on governance and livelihood programming, biodiversity targets are still under serious threat. WCS is seeking a high-level social scientist/ conservation and development expert to manage an exciting, large portfolio and team, including social safeguards, green economy, natural resource governance, community engagement, and one health as part of an integrated approach to ensure a long-term viable MaMaBay system with local communities. Current and upcoming initiatives include conservation financing incentives, terrestrial and marine natural resource management, health/nutrition, and household resilience programming.

MAIN FUNCTION

- Finalize and implement strategies to reduce biodiversity threats through an integrated, rights-based approach.
- Manage the MaMaBay on-site rights and communities’ team.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

The Rights+Communities Manager will work closely with the MaMaBay Landscape & Seascape Director to implement MaMaBay’s community conservation strategy and social safeguards. S/he will ensure a human rights-based approach to the reduction of biodiversity threats in the overarching landscape.

Leadership and team management
- Build and manage an inclusive and diverse team of capable staff through motivational and performance-based personnel management.
- Ensure a community-oriented, collaborative, and mission-led work ethic amongst all Rights+Community team members.
- Encourage a culture of participatory learning and adaptive problem-solving so that team members reflect and design effective field interventions that deliver biodiversity outcomes.
- As a member of the MaMaBay Management Unit, implement R+C activities in close coordination with other departments.

Project planning and implementation
- Ensure implementation of the Rights+Community program and associated commitments to donors within budget and on-time.
- Ensure project activities build positive relationships with communities, prevent, and resolve conflict, and address gender and indigenous peoples’ issues.
- Work with the MaMaBay Landscape & Seascape Director to ensure that Rights+Community department workplans are developed with full input from team members.
- Ensure accountable, evidence-based, and impactful project implementation.
- Ensure a rights-based community approach to conservation, including adherence to Free, Prior, Informed Consent principles.
- Coordinate closely with logistics personnel on procurement and fieldwork planning.
- Ensure timely and accurate budget planning to support activity implementation in coordination with finance personnel.
- Iteratively update the MaMaBay community conservation strategy with inputs from communities, team members, and partner organizations, as required.

Socio-economic research and monitoring
- Manage the design and implementation of socio-economic and anthropological research activities.
- Collaborate with the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team to support the development and implementation of an integrated MEL system.
- Collaborate with the MaMaBay Science Manager to ensure all data are integrated into the MaMaBay Biodiversity and Socio-economic database, analyzed, and used to inform adaptive management of the MaMaBay program.

External relationships
- Directly engage with and spend time in local communities and authorities to facilitate project implementation, build relationships, and communicate conservation messages.
- Work with the MaMaBay Landscape & Seascape Director to liaise with partners to enhance WCS’s approaches with local communities and ensure these are linked to biodiversity outcomes.
- Work with the MaMaBay Landscape & Seascape Director to liaise with partners on community development activities to harmonize approaches and avoid duplication of effort.
- Represent the MaMaBay Rights+Community team to donors and government stakeholders, as requested.

Reporting and communications
- Provide substantive inputs to regular donor progress reports.
- Contribute to fundraising proposals for the Rights+Community portfolio.
- Produce technical outputs such as natural resource management plans, and issue-specific analyses of best-practices and lessons learned.
- Collaborate with the Communications Department to generate high-quality visual and written material to support public communications.

Other
- Maintain strong collaborative working relationships with the national and MaMaBay teams.
- Conduct any other responsibilities as requested by the MaMaBay Landscape & Seascape Director.

- A minimum of a Master’s degree in social or environmental sciences, PhD preferred.
- 5 to 10 years’ field experience with international organizations in Africa working on community-based conservation and natural resource management, Madagascar experience will be a distinct advantage.
- Experience in managing the delivery of activities funded by large bilateral and multilateral donors.
- Proven ability to manage, motivate, and strengthen the capacity of field personnel.
- Proven ability at developing work plans and budgets, implementing MEAL systems, and producing project progress reports.
- Proven ability to design and deliver socio-economic research in international development contexts.
- Proven ability to work sensitively with diverse groups of people such as those of different cultures, nationalities and backgrounds.
- Knowledge and understanding of logistics and financial management for projects in complex environments.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills in French and English; Malagasy is a distinct advantage.
- Strong commitment to wildlife conservation.
- Innovative, proactive, resilient, team-oriented, and ambitious.
- Willingness to live in a remote field site with basic amenities in a multi-cultural environment.

Référence

2025/036
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