Vacancy Announcement

WWF, the conservation organization, has a global network active in 96 countries. Through its Indochina Programme Office in Hanoi, WWF is working in partnership with the Forest Protection Department of Thua Thien Hue Province to implement a four-year project, "Green Corridor - meeting global conservation targets in a productive landscape", in central Vietnam. WWF is seeking applicants for two Vietnamese national project staff positions to be based in Hue City, Vietnam. Details are below:

- Position 1: Community Forestry Officer

Major duties: The Project Community Forestry Officer is 36 months full-time position to the project. The Community Forestry Officer will be contracted by WWF to facilitate participatory and consultative processes through which stakeholders develop, agree and adopt participatory management plans within a natural resource management mosaic for a biological Green Corridor. S/he will assist with training provision, participatory workshops and meetings with individual stakeholders and other activities to ensure that all stakeholders are actively engaged in the Project, and that the Project is responsive to stakeholder concerns and issues. S/he will also conduct socio economic assessments, development of community regulations, advise upon forestry and income generation activities and other duties as required.

Required qualifications and experience:

- Bachelors Degree in appropriate subject such as forestry, development studies, sociology or other related field.

- Familiarity with community based resource management issues.

- Substantive experience with community forestry, community development and promotion, sustainable livelihoods, community-based resource management. Participatory methods development, agricultural extension and training and/or land allocation is preferable.

- Proven familiarity and experience with Vietnamese culture and decision-making processes is essential.

- Proven ability to negotiate, liaise and communicate effectively with local communities, traditional leaders and other local stakeholders.

- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team would be very useful.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills together with the ability to act as a translator in the field and office as required. Good English language skills are therefore an advantage

- Position 2: GIS and Biodiversity Project Officer

Major duties: The GIS and Biodiversity Project Officer is a 24 months full-time position which will assist the project under the auspices of the ‘Earth Observation and Traditional Ecological Mapping to Support Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam’ project implemented jointly with our partner, Hatfield Consultants Ltd. The GIS and Biodiversity Officer will be jointly contracted by Hatfield / WWF to assist in the development and implementation of tools using GIS and Earth Observation data, assisting in identifying conservation hotspots and creating a resource zonation plan, training counterparts, and undertake participatory mapping of natural resources using traditional ecological knowledge. S/he will assist with training provision, field data collection, GIS data analysis, translation, workshops and meetings. S/he will also conduct mapping, socio economic assessments and analysis of GIS/EO data.

Required qualifications and experience:

- Bachelors Degree or higher in appropriate subject such as forest ecology, land-use planning or natural resource management, or other related field.

- Familiarity with using Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing data.

- Substantive experience with the creation of operational maps with appropriate levels of stakeholder participation.

- Proven ability to negotiate, liaise and communicate effectively with communities, government partners, international scientists and local stakeholders is essential.

- Previous of working in a multi-disciplinary team would be useful.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills together with the ability to act as a translator in the field and office as required. Good English language skills are therefore an advantage.

- Interested candidates should send their job applications by the 20th February, 2005 specifying for which position they are applying, and their CVs in English, to Chris Dickinson ( Chief Technical Advisor) by email ( chris-wwfhue@vnn.vn ) or by mail to the Green Corridor Project Office, c/o Chi Cuc Kiem Lam Thua Thien Hue, 18 Doan Huu Trung Street, Hue City . Informal enquiries should made to Chris Dickinson on 054 887341.

For information concerning WWF Indochina and its projects in Vietnam, consult our web site at http://www.wwfindochina.org . Only short-listed candidates will be notified.