Program Executive - Environment

Position/Role Overview:

The Program Executive for Environment will do community-led environmental work to seed mindset changes and build community custodianship in our program geography towards protecting and restoring their local ecology and biodiversity.

Key Responsibilities:

Program Design and Strategy:

• Ensure comprehensive primary and secondary research for developing the program design
• Assist the Program Manager in the development of a strategy for the Biodiversity Conservation thematic, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, landscape & community needs, donor requirements, and industry best practices.
• Assist in the development a detailed action plan with a proposed budget and timeline

Project and Budget Management:

• Oversee the day-to-day implementation of the Biodiversity Conservation programs, including project planning, budget management, procurement, monitoring, and reporting.
• Coordinate with the implementation teams, partners, and stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of project milestones and outcomes.
• Ensure that all projects run per the approved budget and within the agreed timelines.
• Ensure submission of all invoices and bills in a timely manner

Technical Expertise:

• Provide technical guidance and support on environment and conservation -related issues to other thematic teams.
• Stay abreast of emerging trends, research findings, and innovative solutions in the field of Conservation

Risk Management:

• Assist in the identification of potential risks and challenges associated with conservation programs, such as environmental degradation, climate change, socio-economic factors, and governance issues.
• Develop risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans to address these challenges and ensure program resilience.

Knowledge Management:

• Document and disseminate lessons learned, best practices, and success stories from Conservation interventions.
• Keep abreast of developments in the biodiversity conservation thematic, and circulate articles, white papers and relevant documents / information amongst the team

Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Establish monitoring and evaluation frameworks to assess the impact and effectiveness of environmental programs and interventions.
• Collect and analyze data to measure program outcomes, identify lessons learned, and recommend improvements for future initiatives
• Prepare and present regular progress reports to internal and external stakeholders.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders, including government agencies, NGOs, community organizations, and donors.
• Facilitate stakeholder consultations, workshops, and meetings to gather input, foster collaboration, and promote ownership of environmental initiatives.

Vendor and Partner Management:

• Identifying vendors, doing a thorough performance analysis (profiling) of the vendors and final vendor selection.
• Identify relevant partners based on the scope of the activity.
• Manage the relationship with the partner to ensure achievement of deliverables

Capacity Building and Training:

• Develop and deliver capacity building initiatives, training sessions, and workshops to enhance the skills and knowledge of stakeholders involved in environmental conservation and sustainability efforts.
• Build capacity in the community and key stakeholders including BMCs, VDCs, forest
• department, etc. to become long-term custodians of their local ecology

Fundraising:

• Assist in the development of concept notes, grant proposals and donor reports.
• Assist the fundraising team in the management of donors, as and when needed.

Communication:

• Provide the communication team with content for the development of marketing materials.
• Develop quality analytical pieces for respective projects, partners, knowledge portals, and interesting articles for external stakeholders for knowledge sharing and dissemination.

Note: The base location for this role will be Pune, however the role holder is expected to travel to project sites in Ratnagiri, Pune or any other place that may come up in the future.