The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is the leading international conservation organization focused solely on the African continent. Since its’ inception in 1961, AWF has recognized that Africa’s wildlife resources and ecosystems are critical to the prosperity of Africa and its people.
AWF’s mission is, together with the people of Africa, to ensure that the wildlife and wild lands of Africa will endure forever. To that end, a key part of the AWF conservation strategy and success is: training, equipping and employing Africans to help protect Africa’s heritage.
To further strengthen its growing operations, AWF currently seeks to hire a Vice President Program Operations to be based in Nairobi, Kenya, who will bring substantive hands-on experience in operations management, team leadership, project management and change management at an executive level.
Reporting to the President, the VPPO will be the lead in formulating, implementing, monitoring and assuring delivery of the annual results for AWF’s program operations throughout the continent. The post should assure AWF’s record of performance for on-time and on-budget delivery of grant funded projects.
The VPPO is a new post intended to free AWF’s President from day-to-day operational issues and to enable a focus on the strategic growth of the organization. While prior experience in conservation or development work may be helpful, it is not a requirement for this post.
The successful candidate will ideally be a seasoned corporate manager who will most likely:
AWF’s mission is, together with the people of Africa, to ensure that the wildlife and wild lands of Africa will endure forever. To that end, a key part of the AWF conservation strategy and success is: training, equipping and employing Africans to help protect Africa’s heritage.
To further strengthen its growing operations, AWF currently seeks to hire a Vice President Program Operations to be based in Nairobi, Kenya, who will bring substantive hands-on experience in operations management, team leadership, project management and change management at an executive level.
Reporting to the President, the VPPO will be the lead in formulating, implementing, monitoring and assuring delivery of the annual results for AWF’s program operations throughout the continent. The post should assure AWF’s record of performance for on-time and on-budget delivery of grant funded projects.
The VPPO is a new post intended to free AWF’s President from day-to-day operational issues and to enable a focus on the strategic growth of the organization. While prior experience in conservation or development work may be helpful, it is not a requirement for this post.
The successful candidate will ideally be a seasoned corporate manager who will most likely:
- Have experience leading and motivating high performing multi-disciplinary teams in a developing country context;
- Have demonstrated expertise in the tools and strategies for implementing complex programs on time and budget including the ability to lead organizational change efforts;
- Able to operate at an executive level
- Have fluency in English as well as French or Portuguese.
- Have minimum of 7 years managerial experience at a senior level;
- Possess a postgraduate qualification (MBA, MSC) in relevant fields including engineering, business and project management
AWF has retained Human Performance Dynamics Africa (HPDA) to assist with this appointment.
Please send your application, complete with your curriculum vitae to:
Please email all applications to : swakhungu@hpdafrica.com
Head of Recruitment,
Human Performance Dynamics Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
Telephone : +254 20 8561346
Closing Date: July 7, 2010
For further information on the position and AWF, please visit www.awf.org