Project Coordinator Combating Deforestation in Brazil

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Date of last update: 2025-08-04 (Expiry date: 2025-08-24 )

For 60 years, AGIAMONDO (until 2019 AGEH) has been a reliable partner for development workers and a key source of specialist personnel for many church and other civil society organisations active in the field of international development cooperation work. As a state-recognised personnel service provider, we supply qualified Christian-oriented experts from all EU countries for projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America or Central or Eastern Europe. Since being founded by Catholic associations and organisations in 1959, AGIAMONDO has supplied over 6,000 experts for development projects.

On behalf of Caritas Germany, we are looking for the next possible date for a Project Coordinator Combating Deforestation in Brazil (m/f/d).

Caritas Germany, the aid organization of the German Caritas Association, is preparing the Networks4conservation project together with Caritas Brazil and other partners. The aim is to curb deforestation in five Brazilian biomes, promote socio-biodiversity-based value creation and improve the political framework for fair, sustainable land use. The project is funded as part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) and combines civil society engagement, political cooperation and ecological transformation.

Being long-time experienced in international cooperation and familiar with the realities of civil society you will manage the Networks4conservation project and provide strategic support for political processes:

• You will coordinate the implementation of the Networks4conservation project in close cooperation with all consortium partners and effectively bring together different perspectives.
• You will be responsible for designing the content of political cooperation, capacity building and strategic communication in the project.
• You will accompany processes of internal control, support project planning and quality assurance, while ensuring consistency between the various project areas.
• You will lobby the project within political, civil society and church networks, while promoting constructive dialogue at national and international level.
• You will monitor political developments in the areas of environment, land rights and climate in Brazil, and work towards making the social relevance of the project visible.
• You will report on experiences and results in such a way that they contribute to joint learning and further development within the project network which shall be incorporated into the communication with funding partners.
• Together with Caritas Brazil, you will be co-responsible for establishing and further develop the project office of Caritas international and provide technical support to the local team.

Your profile

• You have a university degree in environmental, forestry, social or political sciences, international cooperation or a comparable field.
• You command over several years of experience in managing and supporting complex international (development) cooperation projects.
• You are familiar with the political and institutional framework conditions of Brazil, particularly in the areas of environment, climate and land use.
• You have experience in cooperation with civil society, church and state stakeholders, both at local and political level.
• You have knowledge of working with traditional communities, indigenous groups or smallholder structures.
• Your command of Portuguese and English is excellent as you communicate confidently in these languages and feel comfortable in these specific intercultural contexts.
• You work in a structured and responsible way - with a clear sense of political contexts and perspectives on justice.
• You are a citizen of the EU or Switzerland and identify with Christian values.

An extension of the position for up to 4 years is being sought.

The AGIAMONDO offer

• Individual and comprehensive preparation
• Two-year contract, social security and remuneration according to the Development Aid Act
• Further training in the country, language or other professional skills as well as coaching and supervision, individual counseling

Macro-area: Latin America and the Caribbean

Level of experience: Professional, 3 to 5 years

Area of work Definition : Democracy, Governance, Human Rights, Law, Public Administration

Type of organisation: Foundations and Private Sector

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