Vacancy Announcement

Position: Senior Forestry and Landscape Specialist

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Under the direct supervision of the Program Manager and working closely with all technical team of the joint program and other implementing partners, 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

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

• Salary & Benefit: As per the SOS Sahel Ethiopia salary scale & benefit packages

• Closing Date: July 1, 2022

How to Apply:

• applicants are invited to send their CV and other Credentials 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 Nagelle Field Office or through e-mail addresses stated here under: sirageh@gmail.com &/or muzeyinjemal@yahoo.com

• NB*: Women candidates are encouraged to apply.

Required Qualifications and Experiences

• MSc / BSc Degree in Integrated Landscape Management or Watershed Management or 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
• Knowledge of Afaan Oromo is mandatory