Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, October 12 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
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Working closely with the EKNA Chief of Party, the TNC Country Director, and the conservation teams, the Partnership Manager will be primarily responsible for the development and enhancement of partnerships in the Kafue landscape, and leveraging the capabilities of the partners and the relationships to ensure the delivery of outcomes are consistent with the goals of EKNA and the TNC Zambia country strategy.
Specifically, the Partnership Manager:
• Works closely with the EKNA partner organizations to further develop and monitor the collective vision, priorities, collective work plans, and objectives of EKNA’s partners, and to communicate these to a wider audience of stakeholders and collaborators.
• Strengthens overall coordination, communication, and collaboration amongst different stakeholders and key actors within the Kafue landscape, including facilitating stakeholder meetings, to improve the overall achievement of shared land and resource management and conservation objectives and forge new collaborations towards common aims and interests. Specific targets and priorities within this area include:
• Improved outreach, dialogue, and coordination with and between traditional leaders, community organizations, tourism operators, and other private investors in the Kafue GMAs
• Improved communication and dialogue with key government agencies on issues such as improved governance and management of Kafue’s GMAs, community conservation initiatives, and other landscape-scale conservation planning;
• Strengthened linkages and collaboration between organizations working on natural resources, development, and wildlife conservation within the landscape, and organizations working on issues of community development, agriculture, and community resource rights.
• Uses a systems approach to negotiate complex and innovative solutions with partners to develop and implement a shared vision.
• Determine the type and intensity of partner relationships best suited to achieve TNC outcomes and develop appropriate agreements with partners.
• Negotiate complex and innovative solutions with partners to develop and implement the shared vision.
• Make recommendations to TNC Zambia leadership about partnership opportunities.
• Is responsible for strategic communications with partners, and for the development and dissemination of materials that communicates and reinforces the strategic vision of EKNA, TNC and its partners, including compiling relevant reports and documents.
• Plays a role in the collection, consolidation, and tracking of different sources of data relevant to understanding and monitoring key natural resource governance and management trends and processes throughout the Kafue landscape.
• Works as part of TNC Zambia’s conservation team, ensuring close communication, collaboration, and learning with peers in the team.
• Through collaboration with TNC Africa’s conservation team, draws lessons from partnership development processes from across TNC Africa’s conservation portfolio and brings them to bear in a Zambian context.
• Works with TNC Zambia’s monitoring and evaluation team to support data management activities and measure outcomes in accordance with EKNA’s and TNC’s M&E frameworks.
• Supports programme management activities such as work planning, budgeting, reporting, and donor engagement
• Works with TNC Communications and Marketing teams to identify and document stories of change and impact within the Kafue landscape
• May require frequent travel domestically and during evening and weekend hours.
• May work in variable weather conditions, at remote locations, and under physically demanding circumstances.

What You’ll Bring
Minimum Qualifications:
• BA/BS degree or higher in a relevant field (Business Administration, Agribusiness, Agri financing, Natural resources management/conservation practice, etc.).
• A minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in international development projects on biodiversity conservation, conservation-oriented markets, and small and medium-sized agribusinesses programs.
• Full and valid Zambian Driving License

Desired Qualifications:
• At least 10 years of relevant experience in international development projects on biodiversity conservation, conservation-oriented market, and investment development, and small and medium-sized agribusiness programs, or related fields.
• Leadership skills, managing similar size projects, and development activities; managing staff; and programmatic and financial reporting,
• Ability to build, and maintain relationships with host governments, stakeholders, and the private sector.
• Excellent report writing, analytical, and communication skills, including oral presentation skills, knowledge management, and dissemination of findings in English.
• Outstanding process facilitation skills; ability to facilitate collaboration with diverse and complex groups of individuals and organizations, to forge and maintain common interests and shared objectives, and guide collective action towards collectively identified goals.
• Experience in partnership development with non-profit partners, community groups, and government agencies
• Demonstrable project management experience.
• Respectful of a multitude of means to reach a goal whilst crafting a collaborative approach that is borne and supported by a multitude of actors.
• Demonstrable experience in systems thinking and systems development to support TNC’s conservation actions to be more adaptive, transparent, and evidence-based.
• Supervisory experience, including motivating, leading, and managing performance.
• Skills in facilitating, negotiating, and conflict management in multi-stakeholder environments.
• Proven communication skills in written, spoken, and graphical means in English
• Competence in computer skills (e.g. Excel, Word, etc)
• Demonstrated experience in bringing partners together for a common goal and maintaining trust and collaboration over time.
• Ability to organize and facilitate stakeholder workshops and meetings at multiple levels.
• Ability to work independently with strong self-motivation.
• A passion for Zambia’s wildlife and wild spaces.
• Politically savvy.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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