Jobs

Closing date: 31-July

The GIS Analyst will support IFAW Rescue and Conservation pillar programs through the collection, management, and preparation of geospatial data. The position assists with field data collection, map production, database maintenance and routine GIS analyses while ensuring that spatial data are accurate, organized and accessible.

Closing date: 31-July

Under the technical supervision of the Project Manager, the Technical Advisor carries out the following responsibilities and tasks: • Establish and co-facilitate, together with a colleague from GIZ headquarters, a sub-regional platform to combat wildlife crime, complementing existing exchange formats, • Set up and regularly update an effective M&E system for the project, • Ensure the project’s external communications, • Manage communications and visibility materials, including preparation and ongoing updating information materials (project fact sheets, PowerPoint presentations, etc.), websites and other means of presenting the project to GIZ-internal and external audiences, • Identify opportunities for and facilitate knowledge and information sharing as well as learning exchanges on best practices in law enforcement, human/wildlife coexistence and community involvement . Supervise short-term consultants, including the elaboration of Terms of Reference (ToR), managing the consultants' work, and ensuring quality delivery, • Compile progress reports about activities and progress, both for internal reporting purposes and for external communication, • Contribute to maintain and periodically update the project’s operational documents and implementation plans, • Support preparation of project-related meetings and events and facilitate their implementation (e.g. steering and planning meetings, meetings with partners), • Participate in and contribute to the content of the exchange formats of the LEAP project, the GIZ cluster, and the GIZ Botswana/SADC portfolio,

Closing date: 31-July

Under the technical supervision of the Project Manager, the Regional Technical Advisor carries out the following responsibilities and tasks: • Serve, alongside the project manager, as the primary liaison to the SADC secretariat directorates responsible for combating wildlife crime, anti-poaching and law enforcement, • Ensure regular communication and technical exchange between the GIZ-LEAP project and the two SADC directorates, FANR and ORGAN, as well as the Directorate of Policy, Planning & Resource Mobilization (PPRM), and among the SADC units themselves, Liaise with SADC Member States’ LEAP Focal points and other relevant stakeholders in the subject area of the LEAP project, • Represent GIZ at key meetings and fora relating to the implementation of the SADC LEAP Strategy, • Provide technical support to the SADC Secretariat and Member States in the implementation of human-wildlife coexistence and anti-corruption initiatives, • Supervise short-term and long-term consultants, including the elaboration of Terms of Reference (ToR), managing the consultants' work, and ensuring quality delivery, • Organize and conceptualize inclusive stakeholder consultations for policy development, • Compile progress reports about activities and progress, • Support the project manager in the execution of other activities outside of the main responsibilities, • Participate in and contribute to the content of the exchange formats of the LEAP project, the GIZ cluster, and the GIZ Botswana/SADC portfolio, • Further tasks, in addition to the main tasks described here, may arise as the project is implemented.

Closing date: 27-July

The Community Engagement Coordinator will serve as a critical interface between IFAW and communities living in and around the Lukusuzi and Luambe National Parks in Zambia’s Eastern Province. This role is central to advancing IFAW’s commitment to human-wildlife coexistence by ensuring that communities are not only engaged but also empowered as co-stewards of the ecosystems that surround them. Reporting to the Field Operations Manager, the Coordinator will play a leading role in building trust, facilitating dialogue, and delivering practical, locally relevant solutions that align conservation with community wellbeing.

Closing date: 05-October

The fellowship is designed as a full-time position based in Ithaca, New York, with fieldwork in most cases, although it may be possible for a fellow to be based elsewhere, depending upon exceptional individual circumstances (see additional details below). The second and third years of the fellowship are contingent upon satisfactory performance each prior year. Salary will be commensurate with experience, within a range established for the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Wildlife Health Fellows Program (starting at $65,000-$85,000). The Fellow will propose a program of work in collaboration with at least two mentors at any given time, as described above. The Director of the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health will provide oversight of the fellowship program.