Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, August 09, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

Expert in Biodiversity Restoration (m/f/x) - Rwanda
Enabel is the Belgian development agency. It implements Belgium’s governmental cooperation. The agency also works for other national and international donors. With its partners in Belgium and abroad, Enabel offers solutions to address pressing global challenges - Climate Change, Urbanisation, Human Mobility, Peace and Security, Economic and Social Inequality - and to promote Global Citizenship. With 2,000 staff, Enabel manages about 170 projects in twenty countries, in Belgium, Africa and the Middle East.

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Background
In December 2021, the Swedish Embassy (SIDA) signed a funding agreement with the Ministry of Environment (MoE) /Rwanda Forestry Authority (RFA) for the implementation of the project of “Reducing vulnerability to climate change through enhanced community-based biodiversity conservation in the Eastern Province of Rwanda (COMBIO)” which is focusing on creating biodiversity interconnections of the various ecosystems and landscapes of the whole Eastern Province.

This Project will be aligned and complementary to the TREPA1 project (funded by the Green Climate Fund, https://www.greenclimate.fund/project/fp167  ).

COMBIO will be structured around and aimed at achieving the following outcomes:
Outcome 1: Restored, enhanced, and protected biodiversity for increased climate resilience in productive and protective landscapes.
• Outcome 2: Improved livelihood of community through biodiversity-based enterprises and developed value chains.
• Outcome 3: Strengthened and coordinated community based knowledge and National monitoring systems for biodiversity conservation.

Enabel, as implementing partner in collaboration with Rwanda Forestry Authority (RFA) and International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), will support the following specific outputs:

• Increasing biodiversity in protected natural reserves and community natural sanctuaries;
• Developing biodiversity-based enterprises for communities.

Job description
As an International Expert in Biodiversity Restoration, you will be reporting to the Intervention Manager for the COMBIO project and supporting the technical team in the activity implementation of activities of the outputs dedicated to Enabel according to the project proposal, mainly associated with establishment biodiversity sanctuaries and development of nature -based enterprises and value chains.

Responsibilities:
• You contribute to the implementation of the project by taking part in the planning, execution, coordination, and monitoring and evaluation of activities; 
• You advise on the basis of your technical expertise, in order to achieve performance in accordance with national and international norms and standards;
• You organise knowledge building and knowledge management in order to create an inclusive, informed climate of trust within the project;
• You contribute to capacity development of partner organisations.

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Required qualifications
• Master’s degree in the fields of biodiversity conservation, ecosystems management, botanical sciences, forestry/agroforestry, environmental management or any other closely related field.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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