Overview
The Senior Forestry Officer (Forest Biodiversity and Drylands) role focuses on leading and implementing divisional and cross-divisional programmes related to sustainable forest and dryland management, contributing to FAO's Strategic Framework.
Key Responsibilities
- Plans, manages or leads highly specialized or multidisciplinary teams.
- Analyses global and country specific requirements and relevant technical issues.
- Implements and monitors programmes of work.
- Conducts, designs and oversees research and analysis activities.
- Provides technical and policy advice to Members and technical support to Decentralized Offices.
- Leads and/or collaborates in, provides technical backstopping to and ensures the quality/effectiveness of capacity development and knowledge sharing activities.
- Represents the Organization at international meetings and conferences.
- Leads and/or participates in resource mobilization activities.
- Provides leadership and guidance to mainstreaming biodiversity in forestry, sustainable forest management and sustainable dryland landscapes management.
- Supports the NFO lead of the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Food and Agriculture Programme Priority Area (BE3).
- Coordinates and enhances support to countries in mainstreaming of biodiversity in forestry.
- Leads technical work with other relevant FAO units.
- Coordinates forestry inputs to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF); and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
- Fosters, strengthens and manages strategic partnerships.
- Oversees the secretariat services to the COFO Working Group on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems.
- Mobilizes and manages financial resources for programmes and projects.
- Performs any other duties as required.
Required Experience
- Ten years of relevant experience in forestry, natural resources management or a related field.
- Work experience in more than one location or area of work, particularly in field positions, is essential.
- Demonstrated expertise in forest resources management and sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity, including in dryland landscapes.
- Extent and relevance of experience in developing countries and in translating international frameworks (KMGBF, UNCCD, Global Environment Facility (GEF)) into actionable policies and field-level frameworks at local, country and regional levels.
- Demonstrated experience in integrated landscape planning, including within dryland landscape contexts.
- Experience is supporting work of governing/statutory bodies.
- Proven track record in resource mobilization and designing and managing large-scale, multi-country programmes at the forestry-agrifood system nexus.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in forestry, natural resources or a related field.
