The Orangutan Foundation - Projects Manager
Terms of Reference for Projects’ Manager
Background to the Orangutan Foundation
The Orangutan Foundation is a UK-registered charity whose aim is to ensure the survival of orangutans and their tropical forest habitats, together with the spectacular fauna and fauna these habitats contain. Orangutans are only found in the wild on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, but their habitat has been reduced by over 90% through logging and clearance of the forest, primarily for oil palm. The Foundation has been working in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) and Sumatra for almost 20 years, supporting conservation, research and education programmes. It does this through helping develop the capacity of local conservation organisations, co-operating with other international organisations and donors, and developing specific conservation action programmes.
Job description
Position: Projects’ Manager
Reporting to: The Foundation’s Director
Overall responsibility: To manage all of Foundation’s projects in Indonesia to ensure they are implemented properly, on time, and in accordance with both their contractual basis and local customs and regulations.
Specific duties and responsibilities:
Manage all of the Orangutan Foundation’s projects in Indonesia to ensure their agreed objectives are achieved and they are implemented and administered properly in accordance with best professionalpractise, including producing work plans, budgets, technical reports and financial reports in a timelymanner.
Ensure proper controls are maintained to safeguard funds sent to the field, as well as ensuring that all expenditure is properly accounted for, and proper supporting documents are kept of all financial transactions.
Ensure proper working relationships are maintained with local partners and government institutions, especially collaborating NGO’s, Forestry/PHKA representative agencies, police and local government (this includes seeking approval of work plans, co-ordinating implementation of activities, and submitting progress reports, to government agencies).
Host and co-ordinate official visits from government agencies, donors, film crews, journalists, researchers, partner NGO’s and other approved official guests.
Submit quarterly budget requests to the UK office in respect of individual projects and the Foundation’s own operational requirements.
Ensure sufficient photographic documentation and field reports of the Foundation’s activities are sent to the London office in a timely manner, especially content suitable for inclusion in the Foundation’s newsletter‘Red Ape’.
Develop project proposals and specific fund-raising activities.
Ensure the Foundation’s Director is informed of all important developments in the field.
Carry out any other duties as required by the Foundation’s Director or its Indonesia Programmes’ Manager.
Candidate profile
The preferred candidate should have the following skills and experience:
Essential attributes:
A relevant degree or equivalent experience
At least 5 years’ experience in nature conservation and/or natural resources management
At least 3 years’ project management experience, including financial management and financial reporting
Proven communication and leadership skills, as well as proven capacity to collaborate effectively with government institutions and work effectively in a team with numerous collaborators and stakeholders
Demonstrable commitment to conservation issues, initiative, and problem-solving abilities
Desirable attributes:
At least 5 years’ experience of project management
Experience of working in Asia, preferably in Indonesia
Experience in the following skills:
Community education programmes and public relations work
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and mapping
Reforestation and/ or tree nursery management
Terms and conditions
Start date: October 2008
Duration of contract: Two years initially, but longer-term commitment preferred
Probationary period: Three months
Starting salary: Negotiable depending on experience
Location: Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Additional benefits:
Furnished house in Pangkalan Bun
International medical insurance, including emergency evacuation cover
5 weeks holiday per year
Return airfare to place of recruitment once per year
Application procedure
The closing date for applications is 15 July 2008. Please send your application, comprising a short covering letter, CV, and contact details of two referees, to:
Ashley Leiman OBE
Director
Orangutan Foundation
7 Kent Terrace, London NW1 4RP, UK
