Overview
The Forestry Officer provides applied technical support, normative work, and programme development in sustainable forest management. The role supports field projects and government counterparts to translate regional priorities into sound forestry practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Researches and analyses technical, social, economic, environmental, institutional, and technology related information, data and statistics.
- Produces technical information, data, statistics, and reports.
- Provides technical support/analysis to assessments, studies, and initiatives.
- Collaborates in the development of improved tools, systems, processes, and databases.
- Participates in multi-disciplinary teams and leads working groups.
- Collaborates in, provides technical backstopping to, and ensures quality of capacity development activities.
- Promotes knowledge sharing and best practices.
- Supports resource mobilization activities.
- Advises Country Offices on policies, strategies, and methods in sustainable forest management.
- Contributes to designing, supporting, and implementing normative and technical activities related to sustainable forest management.
- Advises on forest-based value chains.
- Provides technical backstopping to field projects.
- Supports capacity development and regional knowledge exchange.
- Collaborates with other technical teams and external partners.
- Contributes to resource mobilization and programme development by providing forestry expertise to project proposals.
Required Experience
- Five years of relevant experience in forestry, with demonstrated technical work in sustainable forest management, including management of natural and/or planted forests.
- Work experience in more than one location or area of work, particularly in field positions, is desirable.
- Solid applied knowledge of forest management planning, silviculture, forest rehabilitation and restoration, including nursery management and use of native and mixed-species systems.
- Knowledge of forest-based value chains, including timber and non-timber forest products, particularly in smallholder or community forestry contexts.
- Understanding of tenure, participatory approaches and community forestry, and experience working with Indigenous Peoples, marginalized groups and local communities in forestry-related initiatives.
- Ability to support project formulation, implementation and reporting processes.
- Proven experience providing technical support to forestry projects or programmes at national or sub-national level.
- Experience contributing technical inputs to project or programme formulation and resource mobilization efforts, including preparation of concept notes, project documents, or supporting technical analyses for development partners, climate finance mechanisms and/or bilateral donors, is desirable.
Qualifications
• Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in forestry, forest management, forest sciences, or a closely related discipline with a strong forestry focus.
