Founded in 1903, Fauna & Flora
International (FFI) is the world’s longest-established international
conservation organisation. Our vision is to create a sustainable future
for the planet where biodiversity is conserved by the people living
closest to it. We aim to do this through the conservation of threatened
species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are
sustainable, based on sound science and take account of human needs. We
have become a trusted entity in the world of conservation. Today FFI is
active in over 40 countries.
FFI has been working with companies
within the extractive sector for over 20 years. We have worked
throughout the life of extractives developments - operating primarily
with exploration and mineral exploitation in a wide range of countries
and areas including Brazil, Chile, USA, Italy, North Africa, West
Africa, East Africa, the North Sea, Indonesia, Middle East, Mongolia, SE
Asia, the Americas and Australia. FFI has also worked at operations in
areas with great mineral potential such as the Caspian Sea, the Middle
and Far East, Pakistan and Alaska.
FFI will work with companies that are
strategically committed to effective biodiversity management and
conservation. We encourage operations to work to understand and manage
their impacts on biodiversity, following the mitigation hierarchy and
aspiring to global best practice standards such as the IFC Performance
Standards on biodiversity and ecosystem services. In order to recognise
and manage their risks, it is important that companies understand the
biodiversity contexts of their operations in order to identify and,
where appropriate, mitigate potential impacts and capitalize
biodiversity opportunities associated with the company’s operational and
exploration sites.
Potentially, almost all that an
operation does will have some possible impact on biodiversity. Such
impacts are not limited to endangered or threatened plants and animals
but include the impacts on ecosystem services and the natural value of
land. Opportunities exist in the management of biodiversity and
ecosystem services and the Senior Programme Manager will need to be
familiar with environmental markets mechanisms and the potential value
of natural capital.
It is important to understand the
ecological context and external biodiversity pressures in which
companies operate, as changes in biodiversity outside an operation’s
lease area also have the capacity to affect the company’s operations.
We are seeking a highly motivated,
skilled and experienced individual to provide technical, management and
coordination expertise to our work programmes and initiatives within the
extractives sector across our portfolio. You will work closely with all
members of the Business & Biodiversity teams, working to integrate
biodiversity management at a strategic and operational level in both
marine and terrestrial environments. You will contribute to the
development of new partnerships and programmes of work, working on the
characterisation and management of biodiversity across global operations
and integrating and embedding biodiversity across partner companies.
You will contribute to the development and implementation of a full
spectrum of biodiversity and ecosystem services management, including
the application of IFC’s PS6, EBRD’s PR6 and Equator Banks’ EPFi’s
standards, biodiversity risk assessments, developing Biodiversity Action
Plans, implementing the mitigation hierarchy, and developing
biodiversity offsets.
This role will involve collaboration
and coordination with a range of FFI and extractive sector partnership
staff and will require some international travel to meet the objectives
and requirements of both the Africa Regional programme and business and
biodiversity. As a senior member of the team, you will be expected to
become involved in all aspects of FFI conservation programmes and to
encourage the use of global best practices to ensure the integration of
biodiversity and ecosystem services aspects into all aspects of our work
in the sector.
For further details and to apply please visit: HERE
The closing date for applications is 4 January 2016. No agencies please.
FFI values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity
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