Full time post, two years duration
Salary range £20,106 - £36,951 per annum

Required to manage the delivery of a Full-Sized Project of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) on national reporting to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

This enthusiastic, experienced project manager will be responsible for overall project coordination with a range of international stakeholders to ensure adequate project implementation. They will report to the Project Steering Committee and liaise with the Technical Advisory Group guiding the project. The successful applicant will also be expected to support the delivery and expansion of UNEP-WCMC’s wider work on drylands and livelihoods, and to represent UNEP-WCMC and the EAP at relevant conferences, workshops and other specialist meetings both in the UK and internationally.

The salary is negotiable within the Centre’s existing bands. Applicants who meet the requirements are invited, by 4^th December 2009 to complete and send an application form attaching their CV to recruitment@unep-wcmc.org. For further information on this role, including the application form, please visit the jobs page on our website www.unep-wcmc.org

Who We Are: The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), based in Cambridge UK, is the specialist biodiversity information and assessment centre of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), run cooperatively with WCMC 2000, a UK charity. UNEP-WCMC’s mission is to evaluate and highlight the many values of biodiversity and put authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making. Since its establishment in the 1970s, it has been at the forefront of the compilation, management, analysis and dissemination of global biodiversity information, and has an outstanding record of achievement.

Prospective candidates should note that this is not a UN post. The post is being offered for two years. For more information on UNEP-WCMC see vacancies at www.unep-wcmc.org