Technical Advisor - Landscape Restoration and Governance

The IUCN-International Union for Conservation of Nature, Rwanda Country Office in collaboration with The Governments of Rwanda and the Netherlands are in the process of implementing a 3-year programme (May 2019 to April 2022) – “Landscape Restoration and Integrated Water Resources Management in Sebeya and other Catchments” – The Project . IUCN’s role is to provide Technical Assistance (TA) for the Landscape management and Integrated Water Resource Management. The TA Project has the overall purpose of “Increased livelihood and conservation Benefits in Sebeya (& other) catchments from restoration & improved local land management”.

IUCN is therefore seeking to recruit the position of a Technical Advisor for Landscape Restoration and Governance with excellent skills in both Natural Resource Management and Governance to enrich the implementation of the project. The Technical advisor for Landscape Restoration and Governance expert will take responsibility for the overall village to catchment land use planning and implementation of agreed actions. The technical advisor will coordinate the Short Term Technical Assistance (STTA) for the Training of Facilitators (ToF) plan and supervise the initial series of village-based Land Use Plan (LUPs), and, together with the procurement officer, recruit national service providers (for example, NGOs) to ensure the village LUPs can be scaled up (across the whole of the Sebeya catchment through micro-catchments) and out (to other catchments in Rwanda, up to a total of 5). With the team, and especially the knowledge management expert, the Technical Advisor will assist with policy influence with a focus on bringing lessons from village and catchment- based implementation to scale and for awareness raising.

This will be an international recruited position. The Expert will be located within the Ministry of Environment, Rwanda and water Forestry Authority offices.

For full job descriptions, applicants are requested to apply online through the IUCN HR Management System, by opening the vacancy announcement link below and pressing the "Apply" button. Applicants will be asked to create an account and submit their profile information. Technical advisor for Landscape Restoration and Governance Vacancy link: https://hrms.iucn.org/vacancy/4076