Biodiversity, Protected Area Management and Monitoring & Evaluation Expert

Provides biodiversity and monitoring expertise for the Nimba–Diécké project across Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia. The expert guides restoration, ecological monitoring and inclusive governance, builds the project M&E system, tracks technical and financial performance and documents lessons for replication.

Department: PACO Regional Forest Program

• Guide sustainable land management, restoration and protected-area management
• Strengthen protected-area boundaries and community understanding
• Oversee IMET assessments, habitat mapping and ecological studies
• Implement fauna, flora, habitat and restoration monitoring protocols
• Support participatory governance, value chains and inclusive natural-resource management
• Plan activities and budgets and establish the monitoring and evaluation system
• Collect and analyse performance-indicator data
• Coordinate evaluations and implementation of recommendations
• Prepare technical, financial and European Union reports
• Document good practice, policy briefs and lessons for replication

• Master’s degree in biodiversity or natural-resource management, conservation biology, forestry, agroecology, environmental or natural sciences or an equivalent field
• Five to seven years of experience in biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration or protected-area management
• At least three years of planning, monitoring and evaluation or technical coordination experience in multi-stakeholder environmental projects
• Excellent French
• Office-software and GIS or environmental-database proficiency

• The project covers the Nimba–Diécké landscape in Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia
• The project is funded by the European Union