Landscape Manager, Campo Ma'an

**Position Title**:Landscape Manager - Campo-Ma’an**

**Department: Conservation Strategy, Impact and Learning**

**Supervisor: Country Director, Cameroon**

**Matrix Management: N/A**

**Supervises: Biomonitoring officer, Community development Assistant, Finance and Administration Assistant**

**Location: Campo Ma’an, Cameroon**

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**Job Summary**

The Landscape Manager-Campo-Ma’an (LM-CM) will be responsible for the planning, coordination, and management of the Campo
- Ma’an (CM) landscape conservation activities while ensuring its alignment with the AWF Cameroon strategic vision. S/he is responsible for all aspects of program implementation such as planning, people management, financial, and administrative are functional and compliance with financial guidelines, funding agreements, AWF practice, and global standards taking account of the local conditions. S/he organizes program execution consistent with program objectives by engaging multi-stakeholders and promoting the AWF’s Right-based conservation approach. The role will collaborate with other AWF staff, Conservation Service, Consultants, and Local partners, the LM-CM coordinates effective anti-poaching, ecological monitoring systems, community engagement, ecotourism, and administrative support that facilitate program activities implementation in the landscape (Campo-Ma’an and Manyange-na-Elombo Marine National Parks and their peripheries). The LM-CM promotes and supports the capacity development of the Conservator, eco-guards, and indigenous and local community members to improve their effort to protect and manage the resources of the national parks.

This position is based in Campo and reports to the Country Director.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Program Management and Operations**
- Manage day-to-day supervision of the Campo-Ma’an Landscape program while ensuring effective and quality planning and implementation of activities to meet agreed program objectives in line with existing management agreements (specific MoU AWF-Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife for Campo-Ma’an National Park).
- Play the lead role in strategic planning, coordination, implementation, reporting, and management of the landscape.
- Ensure that all activities are delivered in line with agreed timelines and budgets, according to each donor’s agreements and administrative requirements, and in compliance with donor and AWF operating standards, policies and procedures, and funding agreements.
- Oversee budget management of the landscape -responsible for the management of landscape budgets by working closely with Finance Managers on budget coordination with accountability to the finance team for smooth implementation of the work plan.
- In collaboration with the Monitoring Evaluation and Learning team, manage processes for the effective monitoring and evaluation of the landscape program, ensuring timely adaptation of activities, as required and following AWF and donor processes for change, to meet project objectives, and timelines, and support the dissemination of lessons learned.
- Ensure that all activities are fully evidenced through excellent record keeping and data storage, in compliance with both AWF and donor requirements, to enable regular monitoring and progression of conservation impacts.
- Responsible for the identification, minimization, and management of safeguarding issues and risks and the implementation of the AWF Complaints and Grievance Management Mechanism setup to support AWF's Right-based Conservation Approach in the landscape.
- Responsible for implementation of programs/projects in full compliance with AWF policies, donor requirements/standards, and also country law.

**Program Development**
- In collaboration with the program development department ,provide inputs to proposals development to support conservation initiatives/activities in the landscape.
- As required, support the Country Director with the liaison of donors and networks on program/project implementation.
- Lead the development and regular review work plan for consistency in the landscape program.
- Contribution, when needed, in the development and nurturing relationships with prospective and existing funders and donors.

**Grant Management**

In coordination with the finance and Grants team based in Yaounde and Nairobi, undertake specific landscape fund management responsibilities where appropriate, including.
- Ensure successful delivery of grant-funded projects within time-frames, and budgets, manage project inputs from relevant technical and operational staff, consultants, and implementing partners and ensure appropriate contracts are in place where relevant.
- Lead AWF and donor technical report writing and editing, coordinate the inputs of team members, cross-cutting teams, and partners, ensuring accurate and timely technical reports as per AWF and donor requirements.
- Oversee effective financial oversight and ensure all expenditure complies with donor and AWF regulati