After five years of implementation CSP has created a global portfolio of conservation agreements in 17 countries around the world with great potential to increase the number of countries where we work and scale the number of agreements in each of the countries.  Benefits to local communities as part of the agreements have been successful, but we are conscious that better development guidance needs to be provided to the implementing teams and to the communities who have signed agreements with CI and our partners.  We are seeking for a creative, eager to learn, interested in conservation and human development professional who could complement the CSP team and make smart development tools and options available to our teams around the world.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build an inventory of development tools (technologies and intervention processes) and high-performance organizations that have demonstrated cost-effective impact and could be applied adaptively where we have conservation agreements.  This means sleuthing out tools and ideas and evaluating them in terms of evidence for impact and adapting them to the reality where conservation agreements are being implemented.
• Develop a simple and systematic way to evaluate social interventions (alternatives and benefits) in terms of both impact and how they can be configured to make conservation agreements work well.
• In close coordination with the CSP team and implementers, design and develop community approaches that reinforce conservation agreements and embed conservation in the cultural, political and business economy of communities, ensuring a consistent high standard of community development efforts, and utilizing social inclusion methodologies and tools which can serve as a resource to CI as a whole.
• Train agreement implementers (CSP field teams) about these tools/approaches and how to apply them:  be our resident social benefit guru, able to backstop field programs in 17 countries.
• Play a critical role in raisng money from development donors and partners        
• Lead efforts to stay up to date with innovations and good practices in a wide range of development areas; economic development, health care development, education development, governance, etc. and include them in the CSP portfolio.

Working Conditions: Flexibility to travel internationallly between 40% - 60% of the time

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: Master's Degree

Required Skills:

• 10 years of experience in development projects in developing countries
• Fast, independent learner with proven success to build capacity and work in multi-cultural environments
• Experience working in the developing world in relevant high performing business or NGO with proven results and expertise on high performing development tools
• Entrepreneurial personality, likes start-up settings, with demonstrated capacity to work as part of a team and be self-directed
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and share learning in an environment with different levels of capacity
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical support to multiple field programs simultaneously
• Demonstrated capacity to relate to different cultures and nationalities
• Interested in technological solutions to development in developing countries
• Flexibility to travel between 40% - 60% of the time
• Fluent in English

Preferred Skills:

• Proficiency in French or Spanish highly desired
• Experience in conservation desired but not necessary.

APPLICANTS SHOULD SEND:  Cover letter, resume, references, and writing sample.