Project Director - Sustainable Land Management
Job Summary
This innovative not-for-profit
organisation has a proven record in supporting regional sustainability
throughout Australia and beyond. They are excited to be working on
their largest initiative to date and seeking to appoint a
passionate, capable and suitably qualified Project Director to lead this important global project.
The purpose of the project is to
demonstrate and promote the adoption of sustainable land management
practices involving the use of innovative organic amendments, based on
biochar. Funded by the United Nations Environment Program
(UNEP) and the Global Environment Fund (GEF), the project's duration
will be 2.5 - 3 years commencing early 2015.
Reporting to the Executive Director with
accountability to a Technical Steering Committee, you will lead the
project working with six existing biochar demonstration projects in the
developing world locations of: Peru, Myanmar,
Aceh, China (Henan, Hunan, Anhui and Jiangsu), Kenya, Ethiopia and
Vietnam. Your responsibilities will include evaluation of the role and
potential of biochar in SLM; building awareness, knowledge and improved
understanding and establishing knowledge management
dissemination systems – particularly for small landholders and farming
groups; establishing local and international networks of demonstration
sites and farming groups and providing training in the use of bochar.
Further aiding your success will be your strengths
in coordinating and delivering in a complex project arena and
establishing strong relationships and working effectively with a broad
range of stakeholders including the six in-country partner
organisations, the UNEP and GEF, agricultural landholders and farming
groups.
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