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Senior Watershed Management Specialist, Haiti
Position Description
About PADF
The Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) believes in creating a hemisphere of opportunity, for all. We work across Latin America and the Caribbean to make our region stronger—more healthy, peaceful, just, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable for current and future generations. For 60 years, we have served the most vulnerable communities, investing resources throughout the hemisphere. We partner with and enable civil society, governments, and the private sector for the greater good of the region.
Position Overview
PADF seeks a Senior Watershed Management Specialist to support our reforestation, landscape management, and climate resilience activities in Haiti by protecting and restoring ecosystem services on degraded highlands, using an integrated landscape management approach, rehabilitating critical watersheds and strengthen community-led natural resources management. This position is based in Haiti and will report to PADF project directors to provide technical oversight for the program(s). The specialist will be responsible for operational excellence and assisting partners, staff, and consultants in providing quality services and will support the achievement of all program results.
The position is contingent on funding and anticipated to start January 2024.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead oversight of program quality and objectives in close collaboration with PADF project directors and serve as a point of contact for technical and programmatic experts.
- Manage all operational aspects of the program, including overseeing financial, administrative, IT, and human resources (HR) planning and activities.
- Provide support in work planning, activity design, scheduling, budgeting, partner negotiations, training, implementation, and drafting of technical justifications for donor approvals.
- Supervise staff and oversee the recruitment, hiring, employment agreements, and onboarding processes, including mobilization in coordination with the Haiti Country Office.
- Maintain program manuals based on PADF’s policies, such as office operations, procurement, accounting, travel, transportation, health, safety, security, and emergency response.
- Oversee reporting to headquarters on estimated costs, risks, and financial accruals and reporting to project donor agencies on financial and programmatic progress.
- Support report preparation in English and Haitian French, capturing activities and impacts related to activities and ensuring timely submission.
Competencies
- Leadership – provides strategic direction that strengthens team roles, risk-taking, motivation, delivering on results, and fosters mutual respect, constructive dialogue, and a positive work environment.
- Problem Identification / Resolution – identifies needs, develops solutions with stakeholders and sees them through completion.
- Teambuilding – ability to manage and influence, empower individuals and groups to strengthen internal capacities.
- Communications – ability to communicate effectively with program/technical staff maximizing the positive impact and fostering mutual respect, constructive dialogue, and a positive work environment.
Personal Characteristics
- Result oriented: Motivated to achieve and bring tasks to completion. Great at follow up and follow through. Demonstrates a drive and willingness to work hard, with teamwork, communication, and collaboration.
- Interaction skills and empathy: Ability to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.
- Demonstrated flexibility: ability to innovate within the framework of donor compliance requirements and adapt under unforeseen circumstances.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience, with progressively increasing responsibilities and duties, in ecosystem services, landscape management, reforestation, or related fields.
- Advanced graduate degree in a similarly related field of study (e.g., forestry, natural resources management, agronomy, environmental policy, governance, etc.).
- Experience managing the technical and operational aspects of an activity similar in size and scope.
- Demonstrated experience in similar projects or similar work for other donors, including ability to perform adaptive management amid changing context and strategies.
- Demonstrated understanding of the Haitian operational context and the resulting implications for effective programming, implementation and learning.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage multi-disciplinary teams and coordinate effectively with and integrate a wide variety of stakeholders, including national and local government, donors, community-based organizations, and universities, and the private sector.
- Spoken and written fluency in English, French and Haitian Creole.
Desirable Qualifications
- Experience in Haiti strongly preferred.
- Haitian nationals strongly preferred.
More About PADF
PADF is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established by the Organization of American States (OAS) in 1962. www.padf.org
PADF’s core values. “H-E-A-R-T” = Honesty, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork.
Diversity. PADF is strong because we are diverse. We actively seek a diverse applicant pool and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. PADF does not discriminate on the basis of ability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or criminal record. We welcome all kinds of diversity. Our employees include people who are parents and nonparents, the self-taught and university educated, and from a wide span of cultures, languages, socio-economic backgrounds, and perspectives on the world.
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