Conservation Finance Manager
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Job Summary
Position Overview
The Conservation Finance Manager leads the development and delivery of strategic finance solutions that enable inclusive ethical and locally relevant conservation. The role also serves as the finance focal point for the conservation practice ensuring that financial systems partnerships and innovations actively support Namibias Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) protected and conservation sector and WWFs mission.
Main Functions
1. Strategic Finance Leadership
- Design and implement a 35-year conservation finance strategy aligned with WWF Namibias conservation priorities articulated in the Strategic Plan and the Roadmap 2030 as well as the evolving needs of the national CBNRM programme and biodiversity conservation.
- Develop pilot document tailored finance solutions that channel investment toward community conservation protected areas and nature-positive livelihoods.
2. Practice Focal Point and Conservation Finance Innovation Lead
- Serve as the country office focal point to the WWF Global Conservation Finance Practice contributing WWF CO and Namibian insights to global regional and sub-regional dialogues.
- Lead in piloting innovative mechanisms such as conservation trust funds biodiversity credits green microfinance and community enterprise investment models.
3. Conservation Finance focal point: Doers at Scale
- Support the implementation and scale-up of conservation finance activitiesespecially the Doers at Scale initiativeensuring effective coordination financial administration and meaningful engagement with Namibias institutions community conservation actors public and private sectors and partners.
- Provide day-to-day coordination of Doers at Scale activities ensuring smooth implementation and documentation of milestones and budgets when applicable.
- Track timelines deliverables and grant outputs for all community-based conservation finance initiatives.
- Collaborate with MEFT NACSO NGOs and local public and private sector actors and stakeholders to coordinate conservation finance interventions and share progress.
- Organize finance-related training learning exchanges and stakeholder briefings to enhance visibility and accountability.
4.Inclusive Conservation & Ethical Practice
- Ensure proper integration of the Do No Harm and Do Good principles into all conservation finance frameworks and funding proposals.
- Ensure financial models promote inclusive conservation addressing equity gender and rights-based approaches for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) particularly CSOs CBOs community forests and conservancies etc.
- Promote transparency benefit-sharing and participatory planning with communities and CBNRM stakeholders.
5. CBNRM Stakeholder Engagement
- Foster strong trust-based partnerships with Offices Ministries and Agencies of the Government particularly the MEFT (Ministry of Environment Forestry and Tourism) EIF GPTF as well as NACSO BELWG CCFN CSOs CBOs and other CBNRM stakeholders.
- Support the co-creation of finance strategies solutions and joint ventures that build long-term financial sustainability for CBOs and locally managed natural resources.
6. Financial Oversight & Risk Management
- Oversee budgeting scenario planning and investment appraisals for high-impact conservation projects.
- Ensure full compliance with WWF standards donor regulations and Namibian financial laws.
- Lead internal financial risk assessments and contribute to organizational due diligence procedures.
Qualifications :
Minimum Qualifications
Education and Experience
- Bachelors degree in finance accounting and economics is mandatory.
- Minimum 10 years experience in finance ideally with a focus on conservation financial management or sustainable development finance.
- Knowledge of CBNRM approaches with regard to financial management and benefit distribution arrangements.
- Proven experience in structuring or advising on matching and blended finance instruments conservation trust funds or community enterprise finance.
- Familiarity with long-term funding modalities such as programmatic blended-finance programmes project finance for permanence conservation finance approaches biodiversity credits etc.
- Familiarity with environmental safeguards environmental social and governance and similar approaches.
Skills and Abilities
- Ability to coordinate multiple partners and stakeholders at local regional and national levels.
- Strong working knowledge of Namibias CBNRM sector including key institutional actors policies and potential sustainability aspects and funding gaps.
- Financial analysis costing and strategic planning.
- Demonstrated analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Budgeting and costing capabilities including monitoring.
- Integrity and demonstrated commitment to ethical and rights-based approaches.
- Strong leadership capacity and intercultural communication skills.
- Adaptability and a solution-oriented mindset.
- Reliability and a collaborative mindset.
Additional Information :
Location for position
Namibia
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Cognos
- Forecasting
- Hyperion
- Dealership Experience
- QuickBooks
- Accounting
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Budgeting
- Financial Management
- Financial Planning
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