Gender and Social Safeguards Advisor
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Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 5-10 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 10/11/2025
- Location: Democratic Republic of Congo
Context
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is an American non-profit organization founded in 1895. Its mission is to preserve wildlife by understanding critical problems, developing scientific solutions and taking conservation action that benefits nature and humanity. With over a century of experience, long-term commitments in dozens of landscapes, a presence in more than 60 countries and experience in creating more than 150 protected areas worldwide, WCS has accumulated the biological knowledge, cultural understanding and partnerships needed to ensure that wild places and wildlife thrive alongside local communities. Working with local communities and organizations, this knowledge is applied to solving species, habitat and ecosystem management issues, which are essential to improving the quality of life of rural populations whose livelihoods depend on the direct use of natural resources.
Program overview
For the past 30 years, WCS Congo has been the government's main conservation partner, helping the Ministry of Forest Economy (MEF) to manage wildlife and its habitat in several of the country's national parks, reserves and protected area buffer zones. In these sites, WCS develops and implements actions for effective wildlife protection, community-based natural resource management, ecological monitoring, scientific research and environmental education. The program is the largest in WCS's global portfolio and reports to the regional program for Central Africa and the Gulf of Guinea. WCS Congo's current program portfolio includes management of the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park (PNNN) through a public-private partnership with the government of Congo, wildlife management in the park's important buffer zones, co-management of the Lac Télé community reserve, a national program to support reform of marine resource conservation and management, and a major policy support program for the central government in Brazzaville.
Job summary:
The role of the Advisor will be to accompany, sensitize and train WCS agents to take into account social safeguards and human rights when deploying activities, to support a rights-based approach framework in collaboration with project managers and to oversee the deployment and implementation of the grievance redress mechanism at WCS intervention sites. In addition, this position will lead all gender mainstreaming activities in the Ndoki Likouala landscape, which includes Nouabale-Ndoki National Park (PNNN), Lac Tele Community Reserve (RCLT), and their peripheral ecosystem management projects.
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is an American non-profit organization founded in 1895. Its mission is to preserve wildlife by understanding critical problems, developing scientific solutions and taking conservation action that benefits nature and humanity. With over a century of experience, long-term commitments in dozens of landscapes, a presence in more than 60 countries and experience in creating more than 150 protected areas worldwide, WCS has accumulated the biological knowledge, cultural understanding and partnerships needed to ensure that wild places and wildlife thrive alongside local communities. Working with local communities and organizations, this knowledge is applied to solving species, habitat and ecosystem management issues, which are essential to improving the quality of life of rural populations whose livelihoods depend on the direct use of natural resources.
Program overview
For the past 30 years, WCS Congo has been the government's main conservation partner, helping the Ministry of Forest Economy (MEF) to manage wildlife and its habitat in several of the country's national parks, reserves and protected area buffer zones. In these sites, WCS develops and implements actions for effective wildlife protection, community-based natural resource management, ecological monitoring, scientific research and environmental education. The program is the largest in WCS's global portfolio and reports to the regional program for Central Africa and the Gulf of Guinea. WCS Congo's current program portfolio includes management of the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park (PNNN) through a public-private partnership with the government of Congo, wildlife management in the park's important buffer zones, co-management of the Lac Télé community reserve, a national program to support reform of marine resource conservation and management, and a major policy support program for the central government in Brazzaville.
Job summary:
The role of the Advisor will be to accompany, sensitize and train WCS agents to take into account social safeguards and human rights when deploying activities, to support a rights-based approach framework in collaboration with project managers and to oversee the deployment and implementation of the grievance redress mechanism at WCS intervention sites. In addition, this position will lead all gender mainstreaming activities in the Ndoki Likouala landscape, which includes Nouabale-Ndoki National Park (PNNN), Lac Tele Community Reserve (RCLT), and their peripheral ecosystem management projects.
Qualification Requirements
- Graduate degree in social sciences (international development studies, human rights, gender studies, human geography, conflict mitigation/resolution, natural resource management).
- Proven experience in conflict management.
- At least 5 years' experience in the design, implementation and monitoring of programs/projects, particularly about social guarantees and/or social protection for marginalized and vulnerable groups.
- Qualifications and experience in implementing gender mainstreaming strategies in developing countries.
- Proven experience of working with marginalized and vulnerable groups.
- Fluency in French with English skills preferred, with knowledge of local languages an advantage.
- Willingness to frequently visit remote sites
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, and proven ability to work as part of a team.
- Results-oriented work ethic
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