Requirements and skills

• At least 3 years working experience in curating, facilitating, and overseeing implementation of leadership programmes, preferably in the environmental sector.
  
• Experience in delivering in person, hybrid and online learning experiences, courses and or fellowships
  
• A bachelor’s in environmental sciences, conservation, business, or social sciences. Experience in related disciplines (or) significant international experience can be substituted for degree relevance.
  
• Experience with engaging in Multilateral Environmental Agreements and related platforms, especially the Africa Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
  
• Strong coordination and time management skills including ability to provide technical guidance, and oversight, develop workplans and oversee timely implementation of workplans
  
• Good multi-cultural and interpersonal skills and experience in networking with partners at all levels (ministry, donors, private sector, NGOs, and local community-based organizations).
  
• Experience working with or in international organizations.
  

• Program Development, Management and Training
  
• Design and thereafter implement the new online version of the AWF-Wall Policy Fellowship, adapted from the flagship version
  
• Continue to implement future cohorts of the flagship version of the AWF-Wall Policy Fellowship
  
• Provide technical guidance to the implementing partners and consultants of the AWF-Wall Policy Fellowship
  
• Coordinate the recruitment and supervision of experts/contract institutions as required to undertake tasks of the implementation of training programs.
  
• Coordinate the recruitment of trainee candidates for the program .
  
• Develop workplan and curriculum and deliver on the leaderships trainings as scheduled.
  
• Facilitate and train on various courses/modules as necessary.
  
• Plan and coordinate field trips and policy conferences for leadership trainings.
  
• Maintain records on technical and financial aspects of program operation, including monitoring of project activities and their outcomes, as well as minutes, decisions and recommendations of meetings and workshops.
  
• Partnership and Communications
  
• Support the establishment and maintenance of partnerships that can support the AWF-Wall Policy Fellowship.
  
• Ensure effective liaison and maintain good communication with relevant stakeholders.
  
• Support to generating ideas for products and initiatives that tell and communicate the powerful stories of young people.
  
• Measuring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)
  
• Work with the AWF M&E global team to ensure that MEAL tools are developed, rolled out and analyzed according to institutional metrics; indicators are tracked; and findings inform the Youth Programming.
  
• Coordinate with communications and the Knowledge management department teams so that most significant change stories are documented, filed, and disseminated.