Key Roles and Responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the Program Manager and working closely with implementing partners technical team at field and head offices, the Senior Forestry and Landscape Specialist will be responsible to perform the following key duties and responsibilities:

• Leads the overall coordination of Integrated Sustainable Land Management ( ISLM) including participatory sustainable forest and biodiversity conservation
• Ensures the project is implemented through landscape approaches integrating the interests of all stakeholders and considering the physical landscape, people in it and institutions, laws, policies and customs that shape how people use the natural resource in the landscape
• Ensures knowledge products and integrated landscape change tracking systems in Bale and Guji-Borena eco-regions are developed and functioned

Job Requirement

Required Qualifications and Experiences

• MSc or BSc Degree in Integrated Landscape Management, Watershed Management, Forestry or Ecology with at least 5 years relevant work experiences respectively;
• The incumbent needs to have skill of GIS and remote sensing for resource planning and monitoring is required

Duty Station: Addis Ababa (Head Office) with frequent travel to project areas

How to Apply

• Closing date: 15 (fifteen) calendar days from the first date of announcement
• Interested applicants are invited to send or present in person non returnable copies of their CV, credentials and photocopy of their Diploma with cover letter in English, specifying position they applied for to one of the following address:
• SOS Sahel Ethiopia – P.O. Box 3262, Addis Ababa or SOS Sahel Ethiopia – Bale Field Office or via: sirageh@gmail.com and muzeyinjemal@yahoo.com

NB: Women candidates are encouraged to apply.