: Bring the Elephant Home
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: 30 March 2015
Conservation Manager
Bring the Elephant Home
Position: Full-time, local salary of Thai NGO standard
Contact: One-year freelance contract, with a probation period of two months
Introduction Bring the Elephant Home
The Asian elephant, a keystone species, is threatened with extinction as deforestation has destroyed much of its habitat, food supply and migration routes. Over the last three generations, a population decline of at least 50% has been estimated with a current population of less than 40,000 wild elephants. Bring the Elephant Home restores natural habitat, finds solutions to mitigate human-elephant conflicts and stimulates elephant friendly eco-tourism.
Bring the Elephant Home is aiming for a better chance of survival for elephants. We achieve this by restoring natural habitat, by stimulating animal friendly eco-tourism, by developing alternatives for people who traditionally earned income with elephants and by finding solutions to mitigate human-elephant conflicts. We are always cooperating closely with local organizations and communities. With the ambition to develop our conservation projects in Thailand, we are now looking for a dynamic and dedicated conservation manager.
Your role
Do you have a talent for creating positive change and a passion for wildlife conservation? If so, you might be the person we are looking for to join us as the new conservation manager of Bring the Elephant Home in Thailand. We are seeking a high performing candidate with experience in managing conservation in Thailand. As well as understanding the challenges the Asian elephant and its habitat are facing, you have to be able to focus on results and know how to make things happen. This position will involve a diverse, challenging and exciting range of activities, including:
Contributing to the three-year policy plan of Bring the Elephant Home
Initiating, conceptualizing and developing inspiring projects within the guidelines of the policy plan
Supervising the new Conservation Leadership Program, providing guidance and assistance for the leaders, organizing study trips and workshops
Managing and coordinating conservation and education projects in Salakpra Wildlife Sanctuary to mitigate human-elephant conflicts, such as forest restoration and monitoring programs
Recruitment and coordinator of local volunteers
Fundraising for current and new projects
Promoting and raising awareness on the impact of emerging environmental and elephant issues
Help to develop partnership with other organizations, governments, universities and companies
Follow policy developments, current situation on elephants and conservation issues.
Write and translate articles for the website, newsletter and local media
Regular reporting to the director in Thailand
We are looking for a Thai candidate, based in Kanchanaburi or nearby (e.g. Bangkok) who is dynamic, inspiring, creative and has a passion for our goals. You must be able to work independently, with support from a distance, to initiate new projects by yourself and to accept flexible working hours, including availability after normal business hours. Fluency in English and excellent communication and strategy skills are essential. People with backgrounds in areas such as conservation, leadership, animal rights and NGO’s are especially encouraged to apply. In this challenging and independent job you will be responsible for managing the new Conservation Leadership Program and to initiate all activities within this program. This role would suit an experienced manager. A good knowledge of the situation of elephant, law and the NGO movement is essential but can be developed on the job.
Your qualifications
Minimum Bachelor degree in related field
Experience in conservation and NGO work
Experience in leading, developing and managing conservation programs, including monitoring and evaluation
Fluent English and Thai
Flexible attitude
Social and communicative skills, including reporting skills
Ability to work independently and to travel frequently
Conditions
Bring the Elephant Home is a small organization on an ambitious mission. We rely on small private donations for most of our income. We try to keep overhead costs to an absolute minimum and therefore work from a virtual office with many international volunteers. We encourage people from all walks of life to get actively involved in elephant conservation. Bring the Elephant Home is officially registered as a non-profit organization in Thailand and in the Netherlands. At the moment Bring the Elephant Home has projects in Thailand and Malaysian Borneo and has the ambition to develop a branch in China in 2015.
Applications
Please send a written application and your current resume in English before April 20, 2015 to: info@bring-the-elephant-home.org.
More information: www.bring-the-elephant-home.org
