EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES - THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE/UGANDA

Position Description - Executive Director

Position Title: JGI-Uganda Executive Director

Reports To: Executive Vice-President, Africa Programs, JGI - USA

Position Summary: The JGI-Uganda Executive Director will provide supervisory oversight for JGI - Uganda, and financial, technical, and administrative support for JGI activities, projects, and programs in Uganda. These activities include chimpanzee and other primate research, community-centered conservation, conservation education, and eco-system landscape scale biodiversity conservation.

Major Responsibilities:

• Supervise and evaluate the professional and administrative staff of JGI - Uganda to ensure compliance with all JGI strategies, policies, procedures and guidelines and to assure smooth project operations and the effective performance of staff;
• Provide managerial oversight and strategic, policy, procedural and operational advice and guidance to the Budongo Ecotourism Development Programme, the Conservation Education Materials to Primary Schools Programme; Kalinzu Field Education Centre, the Roots & Shoots Program, and the Mt Otzi Project; and the Snare Removal Programmes
• Recruit and provide training, as appropriate, for all JGI staff in Uganda;
• Serve as principle liaison to, and build, leverage, facilitate and maintain professional relationships with:

1. appropriate national, regional and local Government of Ugandan officials, including but not limited to the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), the National Forestry Authority (NFA), the regional and district governmental entities for the Western region of Uganda from Northern Uganda to the South-West of Uganda.;
2. appropriate international donor agencies with socio-economic development and environmental conservation programs in Uganda, including but not limited to the U.S. Embassy, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank, the European Union (EU), and selected agencies of the United Nations, including: UNDP, UNHCR, and UNICEF, etc.;
3. international and U.S. environmental and animal conservation organizations and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) implementing socio-economic development, and bio-diversity conservation programmes in Uganda; and
   foundations, the private corporate sector and other funding entities and secure grants from these institutions sufficient for the continuation of JGI - Uganda programmes.

• Provide advice and guidance in, and coordinate the preparation of, JGI - Uganda's response to local grant solicitations from international donor agencies, foundations, the private sector and other funding entities for the development, design, implementation and evaluation of amended activities and/or new initiatives in Uganda.
• Coordinate the development and submission of supporting documentation and information to JGI - USA for incorporation in its response to international grant solicitations from international donor agencies, foundations, the private sector and other funding entities for the development, design, implementation and evaluation of amended activities and/or new initiatives in Uganda.
• Coordinate the assessment and evaluation of the effectiveness of JGI - Uganda activities.
• Ensure all reporting to donors and to JGI - USA is performed in accordance with reporting instructions and submitted in accordance with reporting schedules.
• Manage the development and submission of annual operating budgets in accordance with JGI - USA budget parameters and schedules for all JGI activities and programs in Tanzania.
• Maintain effective communications with JGI - USA and with other JGI's world-wide, as appropriate.
• As requested, represent JGI at regional and international conferences and workshops held in Uganda.
• Travel as necessary to implement JGI - Uganda programmatic goals and objectives.
• Assist Dr. Jane Goodall and other Jane Goodall Institute staff when visiting activities in Uganda.

Qualifications

Education: Undergraduate degree (preferably a graduate degree) in business or management or related field, or other widely-recognized professional certification.

Experience:

1. A minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience managing a NGO, company, unit of a company, or as Chief-of-Party or Program Manager (or Deputy) for an international donor and/or foundation funded multi-year development and/or conservation project/program in a development country setting;
2. Proven cross-functional management experience preferred, with ability to develop high-performing teams;
   Ability to work under deadline pressures and to manage multitask requirements
   Aptitude for programme and/or project planning, management, and evaluation.
   Facility to work collaboratively with local and international organizations, the private sector and with bilateral and multilateral economic development funding agencies.
3. Proficiency in budget formulation, development and management.
4. Adeptness at recognizing politically sensitive matters; and
   Demonstrated mature judgment and integrity.

Skills:

1. Highly entrepreneurial, energetic and disciplined;
2. Strong executive and resource management skills;
3. Sound analytical, conceptual and problem solving skills;
4. Strong interpersonal skills, with the capacity to influence without formal authority, and the ability to work with a multi-national team and across organizational boundaries;
5. Strong organizational, leadership, team building/work, and communications skills with attention to detail;
6. Exceptional diplomatic skills and the ability to reach out to many different audiences, including members of the JGI organization, and the management and staff of multilateral and bilateral donor agencies, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, as well as members of civil society, and, importantly, communities;
   Excellent verbal and written skills in English and at least one local language of the chimpanzee habitat regions in Uganda, (French would also advantageous); and

Computer literacy

Application Procedure:

Qualified candidates should send their application letter with the following documents:

• A detailed Curriculum Vitae or Resume; and
• Scanned Copies of Degrees and Diplomas
• References from previous employers

These documents should be sent to:

Keith E. Brown
Executive Vice President, Africa Programs
The Jane Goodall Institute
kbrown@janegoodall.org

Also, please copy Alice Macharia (amacharia@janegoodall.org) and Leslie Bratton (lbratton@janegoodall.org) on all E-mail submission of documents and correspondence.

Candidates are required to include in their application their telephone contacts and E-mail addresses so that they can be reached quickly.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

The deadline for applying to this position is March 1, 2008.

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