DRC: Lake Tumba Program Manager/Landscape Leader

Sep 12, 2014 | WWF

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is one of the largest independent conservation organizations in the world. We are an international NGO committed to environmental protection active in almost 100 countries. WWF has been working in the Congo Basin in Central Africa since 1978.

The WWF has embarked on ambitious, field-based conservation programs across the Congo Basin. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), WWF is active in several landscape-scale sites, including the Lake Tumba Landscape. The Lake Télé-Lake Tumba Forest Landscape is the world’s largest swamp forest and the world’s second largest wetland area. It covers 126,440 km², spread over the Republic of Congo (ROC, 54,001 km²) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, 72,439 km²). Approximately 70% is swamp and seasonally inundated forest and grassland, and the remainder is terra firma forest and savanna. The landscape plays a key role in the climate and hydrology of the Congo basin and in watershed management in both the African and the global contexts. This landscape is further unique as all three (3) of Africa’s great apes (gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos) are found at high densities within its boundaries. Other species occurring in the landscape include forest elephant, hippopotamus, 16 diurnal monkey species and 7 duiker species. Over 350 species of birds have been observed including important waterbird populations. Fish diversity is striking with over 80 species identified in DRC and 50 in ROC components. The fish diversity is not solely an indicator of biodiversity, but is the foundation of the livelihoods of most communities.

The WWF seeks a Program Manager/Landscape Leader with expertise in broad-scale/landscape conservation management to direct its field program in the Lake Tumba Landscape and provide overall coordination and leadership. The Program Manager will ensure the direct management and coordination of the Lake Tumba landscape component of the Central Africa Forest Ecosystems Conservation (CAFEC) project funded by USAID as well as other sources of funding by:

• Working closely with partners in and outside the Lake Tumba Landscape to obtain optimum conservation results;
• Coordinating the implementation of the project with the support of the CoP (Chief of Party of the CAFEC project) and the Director of Conservation;
• Overseeing technical, administrative and logistical staff of the program.

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