瑞尔保护协会中国项目部急招一位培训主管

陌上初薰

Pride Program Manager, China
MAY 09, 2011
Location: Kunming, China
Reports to: Director, China
Travel: Up to 30% annually

About Rare
Rare is a $17 million fast-growing, international conservation organization that runs state-of-the art communication and outreach projects that empower local communities with the tools to solve their own conservation challenges. Rare’s innovative social marketing strategies fuel projects located in more than 50 countries around the world. Named to Fast Company magazine’s list of “Top Social Capitalists” for the last four years in a row, Rare is committed to bringing a spirit of entrepreneurship and creativity to solving one of this century’s great challenges – changing human behavior to ensure sustainable natural resource management.
All Rare projects are managed by local partners; its focus is on building community support for conservation and developing local communications capacity among the world’s leading local environmental organizations. Rare has trained 200 local conservation leaders implementing dynamic change processes in 57 countries. Many of these “campaign managers” work for the largest and the smallest conservation organizations globally, including The Nature Conservancy, WWF, and Conservation International. Rare has five offices around the world in Arlington, Virginia USA; Bogor, Indonesia; Guadalajara, Mexico; Kunming, China; and Bohol, Philippines.

About the Position
Working in close collaboration with the Director of Rare’s China operation, the Pride Program Manager will provide one-on-one mentoring and technical support to local conservation leaders enrolled in the Rare Pride Leadership Development Program, offered at the Southwest Forestry University. The 2-year Rare Pride Program includes 17 weeks of training at the University in 5 subject areas: Conservation Theory and Practice, Research Methodologies, Social Marketing techniques, Project Management, and Leadership skills development; and 84 weeks in the field implementing social marketing-based Pride Campaigns in their communities.
The Pride Program Manager will provide comprehensive support to the program participants throughout the training, implementation, and evaluation cycles of each Pride Campaign. This includes teaching course modules on conservation, leadership, and community engagement during the residency phases of training at the University; periodic support visits to program sites around the world; financial management of program; and regular coaching, mentoring, and distance support to Campaign Managers.

Areas of Responsibility
The Program Manager’s main responsibility will be to support Pride training and campaigns run through Rare’s program at the Southwest Forestry University. Duties include:
• Actively participate in teaching and evaluating students at the University. Each year Rare will initiate 12 new students who will receive 17 weeks of on-site training over a two year process.
• Provide long distance support and mentoring to Pride Campaign Managers in the implementation of program in the field, maintaining contact via phone, internet, fax and monitoring / project support trips throughout the year.
• Provide general administrative and logistical support for course work, as needed.
• Manage relationships with Pride campaign local partners, ensuring that Rare’s priorities of capacity building, constituency building, and conservation are met. This includes communicating regularly with senior members of the partner organization, and resolving any discrepancies or conflicts.
• Work as part of a team to review and provide coordinated feedback to Pride campaign products and assignments, project plans, materials in development, and final reports.
• Conduct week-long site support visits for personalized support to Pride programs and complete support trip reports.
• Communicate monthly activities and progress, financial status and final outcomes of each program.
• Work diligently to constantly improve and update course materials and tools for the Pride program, and promote cross-campaign learning and network building.

Qualifications, Skills & Knowledge Requirements
• Education and/or experience equivalent to a Master’s Degree in fields of biodiversity conservation, communications, or social marketing.
• Strong understanding of conservation, environment and/or biodiversity issues.
• 5 years of relevant work experience; overseas living experience preferred.
• Fluency in written and spoken Mandarin and English.
• Willingness to travel based on needs of the position (up to 50% at peak times in year; about 30% on annual average).
• Teaching, training, or coaching experience essential.
• Program planning and management skills.
• Experience using relevant software (MS Office), databases, graphics software.
• Ability to thrive in team environments, strong understanding of diversity and other cultures, and build relationships over long distances.

Compensation
The salary for this position is commensurate with experience and expertise, plus competitive benefits described below.

Benefits
Rare not only inspires conservation, we also inspire our employees. In addition to fully covered health insurance, a retirement savings plan and 3+ weeks of vacation/holiday leave time, Rare employees receive an annual training budget for continuous learning and growth, a bonus plan that ties to individual and organizational performance, and a flexible work environment. And to make sure no one gets cabin fever, Rare holds an annual all-staff global retreat that brings every staff member together to support our work around the world.

Application Procedure
Please email a resume and cover letter, both in Word format, outlining how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position to ChinaCareers@rareconservation.org. Subject line of the email should read, “PPM, China.” Please mention how you learned of this opportunity and your required salary range. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.