Job Title: Born Free Foundation Manager – Kenya
Reporting to: Line Manager, UK and CEO Born Free Foundation
Job Objectives:
To lead, develop, and manage the functions of the Born Free Foundation (BFF) Kenya office in close collaboration with the BFF Head Office in the UK. This will involve planning and budgeting, implementing and reporting, as well as overseeing the day-to-day activities of the local office.
Job Description:
Managing the country office of the Born Free Foundation, an international wildlife conservation and animal welfare charity organisation
Core Responsibilities:
Reporting to: Line Manager, UK and CEO Born Free Foundation
Job Objectives:
To lead, develop, and manage the functions of the Born Free Foundation (BFF) Kenya office in close collaboration with the BFF Head Office in the UK. This will involve planning and budgeting, implementing and reporting, as well as overseeing the day-to-day activities of the local office.
Job Description:
Managing the country office of the Born Free Foundation, an international wildlife conservation and animal welfare charity organisation
Core Responsibilities:
- Supervising a team of full and part-time staff
- Managing wildlife conservation projects and community-based wildlife programmes such as building schools, de-snaring and anti-poaching work.
- Supervising conservation education activities such as raising awareness through campaigns, drama/films among others, aimed at delivering Born Free’s core objectives of compassionate conservation and animal welfare.
- Developing ideas and tools to be presented for approval by BFF in relation to projects that are to be implemented by the Kenya office.
- Working with all major wildlife organisations and other stakeholders and maintaining particularly close relations with the Kenya Wildlife Service, East Africa Wildlife Society, Wildlife Clubs of Kenya and the Bill Woodley Mount Kenya Trust.
- Regularly reporting the experiences of the local team to BFF.
- Budgeting and accounting.
- Producing regular written contributions and photographs for Born Free publications and website, as required.
Competencies:
The jobholder should possess core competencies to enable them to promote Born Free as a first-class charity, appropriate for the patronage of its many supporters and to ensure that ‘all customers’, whether internal or external, receive the best possible level of service.
These include:
The jobholder should possess core competencies to enable them to promote Born Free as a first-class charity, appropriate for the patronage of its many supporters and to ensure that ‘all customers’, whether internal or external, receive the best possible level of service.
These include:
- Strong customer ethic.
- Passion for the charity and its success in the field of wildlife conservation and wild animal welfare.
- Commitment to the role and to facing the challenges brought about by the historical success of the Foundation.
- Proven team player, able to work with and support senior management’s objectives, taking them to further success as well as motivate, mentor and manage subordinate staff.
- Demonstrable use of initiative within the framework of the charitable objectives and the country plan.
- Knowledge of conservation issues an advantage.
- Creativity, flexibility and innovation.
- Attention to detail
- Work under pressure and work to deadlines.
- Excellent written and communication skills.
- Smart and presentable.
Salary negotiable.
Please send a cover letter summarizing your interest and experience with your CV and references to
Alice Owen,
Born Free
P.O. Box 1519
Post code 00502,
Nairobi, Kenya
or email to alice @ bornfree.or.ke and will@ bornfree.org.uk.
A full job description is available on request.
The Born Free Foundation is an equal opportunities employer.
For more information, please go to www.bornfree.org.uk
Closing date: 24th March 2010
Successful first-round applicants will be interviewed, in person, in Nairobi, on 8th / 9th April 2010.
