The Nature Conservancy is Seeking a Product Development Director, Debt Conversions

The Director, Product Development, Debt Conversions will report to the Deputy Managing Director, Blue Bonds in NatureVest. Debt Conversions involve negotiating the restructuring of a country’s sovereign debt using investment capital and credit enhancement to create funding to finance marine conservation and related activities in the country.   

The Director’s role shall be to lead the development and implementation of debt conversions primarily in the Africa region, but potentially in other regions across the globe where Debt Conversions opportunities can be identified. S/he/they will engage in all aspects of capital-raising including the soliciting of potential investors and donors, and the management of investor relationships. Key responsibilities shall also include: identifying and negotiating key partnership arrangements, developing financial models (including the incorporation of blended finance and credit enhancement mechanisms), performing due diligence and risk assessments / mitigation, developing internal and external materials, and structuring and closing the deals.  

More information on the position and how to apply is available on The Nature Conservancy’s website.

All applications must be submitted in the system prior to 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on March 14, 2020.

The MedFund is issuing a Request for Proposals to develop its 5-year resource mobilization strategy

The MedFund is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) to develop its 5-year resource mobilization strategy.

The RFP and Terms of reference contain all the necessary information for interested Offerors.

Consulting firms, Consultants, must send their bids via email to contact@themedfund.org by February 28th 2020 by midnight (CET time).

Fauna & Flora International Seeking Temporary Director of Conservation Finance and Enterprise

Start Date: 1 April 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter

Contract Type: This is a temporary position to provide parental leave cover and will terminate on or before 16 April 2021 on the return of the Director, Conservation Finance & Enterprise from parental leave.

Location: Fauna & Flora International, Cambridge, UK

FFI is seeking a Director to lead the operational management, implementation and development of FFI’s Conservation Finance & Enterprise programme.

Further information is available here on the F&F website.

The closing date for applications is Wednesday, 5 February 2020.

Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA) Seeking Communication and Membership Assistant

Communication and Membership Assistant for the Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA)

Washington DC

Temporary/Seasonal

GLOBAL CONSERVATION

Job Description

Reporting: reporting to David Meyers, Executive Director, CFA

Objectives: The CFA Communication and Membership Assistant is essential to ensure effective communication among members of the Conservation Finance Alliance and the CFA Secretariat, specifically in support of CFA programs and membership outreach. This role is critical to help with information sharing and logistical support for the CFA Secretariat.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Developing, writing and sending CFA’s monthly newsletter to the members and newsletter recipients; actively soliciting news items from members for inclusion, and updating the CFA website and CFA’s social media accounts with newsletter elements. 

• Monitoring the CFA Secretariat email account and responding to member emails or forwarding communications to appropriate CFA Working Group Chairs, Secretariat and Executive Committee members

• Maintaining and updating the member database, including adding new members

• Maintaining and upgrading the CFA websites including conservationfinancealliance.org (includes cfalliance.org), and conservationfinance.info:

  • Updating the websites content including the library, tool kits, conservation finance guide, and more as requested by the CFA Executive Director, Working Group Chairs and CFA Secretariat.

  • Updating the news section, events calendar, experts database, and other sections on a regular basis.

  • Updating and creating new web pages or websites as requested by the Executive Director.

  • Remaining in regular contact with the Executive Secretariats of RedLAC, CAFÉ and APNET as well as the Conservation Finance Network to identify content-sharing and cross-posting opportunities

• Scheduling, organizing and providing logistical and technical support for webinars including assuring that presenters are comfortable with the technology and have shared presentations with the webinar host (Secretariat). Recording and posting all webinars online.

• Supporting CFA task forces and Working Groups including but not limited to: establish and maintain list servers, scheduling meetings, sending meeting announcements, recording meeting, taking notes during calls, and disbursing meeting minutes following review from CFA Secretariat.

• Reaching out to members and partners to solicit topics for knowledge sharing including documents, publications, relevant webinars, conferences, and more.

• Schedule and assure logistics and communications for quarterly Executive Committee virtual meetings including preparing minutes from meetings

• Schedule and assure logistics and communications for semi-annual Steering Committee virtual meetings including preparing minutes from meetings.

Qualification/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree, strong research and writing skills a must

• Previous social media and website experience and ability to communicate well with a globally-located, culturally-diverse team desirable

• Understanding and familiarity with biodiversity conservation implementation and policy a plus

• Detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills, including responsiveness to multiple, simultaneous projects and demands; ability to set and follow priorities and meet deadlines

• Ability to work independently and without daily instruction and monitoring 

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite of products, particularly Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint

• Additional skills - Website creation and management (experience with Squarespace preferred), email communications tools including MailChimp.

To apply see the Jobs pages at WCS and search for Communication and Membership Assistant.

MedFund Seeking Executive Director and Project Manager

Attached below are two job descriptions to be filled within the Fund for marine protected areas in the Mediterranean (MedFund). The deadline for applications is February 10th, 2020. Please share with relevant networks and colleagues.

Project Manager

Executive Director

American Forest Foundation Seeks Chief Financial Officer

Eighty years of work with landowners has earned us respect and credibility, but our future will be defined by our ability to create sustainable solutions to problems that are far bigger than us. We view our CFO as a social entrepreneur, helping us develop and launch a portfolio of new products and services.

 Solving some of the most urgent environmental and economic issues of today—cleaning our air, filtering our drinking water, sequestering carbon, creating wildlife habitat, reducing the risk of wildfires, increasing biodiversity, and supplying sustainable sources of wood—requires careful stewardship of our forests. Because individuals and families own 270 million acres of America’s forests (more than government and more than corporations), empowering family forest stewardship is an essential yet often overlooked piece of the forest puzzle. The American Forest Foundation (AFF) is leading the way in empowering family forest landowners to tackle these urgent issues and achieve significant impact.

 Building on our 80-year legacy of family forest stewardship, AFF is entering a new phase of rapid innovation. In our trusted position at the center of the family forest network and with the financial strength of $160 million in reserves, we’re developing and deploying sustainable business models that support forest owners as they address these important environmental, social, and economic issues. The technology company we acquired has helped us significantly increase our ability to connect private landowners with nonprofits, technical experts, government agencies, and conservation organizations. We’re reinventing the carbon market for family landowners and we’re helping companies that source wood from family forests do so sustainably. Our partners are some of the leading companies and financial institutions, the U.S. Forest Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and conservation groups like The Nature Conservancy.

A full description of the position is available for download here or on their website.

Consulting Opportunity in Cairo, Egypt

Strengthening Protected Area Financing and Management Systems

Project Consultancy services to deliver training course on tourism revenues management within protected areas

Please find at the link TORs for consultancy services for an international consultant to deliver a training course on effective mechanisms within protected areas to raise funds from tourism.

The deadline to apply is 12 January 2020

https://portals.iucn.org/union/sites/union/files/doc/5-1-2019-epasp.tor_revenues_020120_ext.pdf


The consultant is expected to focus on a range of tasks which involves, but is not limited to: (1) opportunities for generating revenues directly or indirectly from tourism within PAs; (2) structures for protected area management and implications for financing; (3) protected areas funding methods; (4) how to develop and implement effective tourism management plans for PAs; (5) how to match appropriate types of tourism to particular sites within PAs, taking into account conservation goals and tourism markets; (6) procedures for effective implementation of revenue raising mechanisms within PAs.

As outlined in the TORs, application should include a Technical Proposal and Financial Proposal. Submissions should be received by 15:00 (Cairo time) on 12 Jan 2020. Proposals should be clearly marked “Consultancy services to deliver training course on tourism revenues management within protected areas” and addressed to Dr. Khaled Allam at email: info@epasp.org; mobile: 01001288508. All queries should be directed to Dr Allam.

2020 Conservation Finance Boot Camp Applications Now Open

Applications are now open for Conservation Finance Network’s 14th annual Conservation Finance Boot Camp! The course will be held June 22nd-26th, 2020, at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in New Haven, CT. They are not only excited to return the course to its founding location, but also to host with our partners at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. New England is a dynamic landscape for conservation funding and finance, exhibiting leadership in philanthropy and innovation in the land trust and land conservation movement. They are excited to complement the national perspective of the Boot Camp with case studies from the region.  

Please see the Boot Camp webpage for more information, and be sure to submit your application by January 31st!

WWF Seeking CTF Consultant

World Wildlife Fund is seeking a consultant with experience designing conservation trust funds to analyze the feasibility of creating a Conservation Trust Fund for Tribal Wildlife Conservation in the Northern Great Plains. The consultant will assess existing legal, regulatory and institutional frameworks, identify levels of interest and potential roles of government partners, analyze fundraising potential, and develop recommendations for designing (or addressing enabling conditions for) a conservation trust fund.

The full Terms of Reference is available here or upon request by emailing Libby Khumalo at Libby.Khumalo@wwfus.org.

To apply, please send a cover letter detailing the consultant’s previous experience with analyzing conservation trust fund feasibility, as well as a resume, by December 4, 2019 to Libby.Khumalo@wwfus.org.

Photo from worldwildlifefund.org

Madagascar Biodiversity Fund Seeking Conservation Finance Consultant

The Foundation of Protected Areas in Madagascar is looking for an experienced consultant in the field of conservation finance to undertake a study of bilateral and multilateral public financing options. Currently capitalised at $72m, the foundation through its board and executive branch, is calling for this consultancy to assist in their resource mobilisation efforts. Please find attached the TORs in French, which is the main language to use for the assignment.

Image courtesy of islandconservation.org