Biodiverse Landscapes Fund (BLF) Lower Mekong Coordinator

Parent Unit

Fauna & Flora, in partnership with SNV, the Netherlands Development Organization, and IUCN, is implementing a 7-year biodiversity conservation landscape project entitled the Biodiverse Landscapes Fund (BLF) Lower Mekong Landscape Project. The project aims to conserve and enhance biodiversity in more than one million hectares of the Annamite Mountains, incorporating three large forest complexes in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam.

BLF’s overarching aim is to reduce poverty and create sustainable economic opportunities for those communities, through the delivery of lasting landscape protection, sustainable management, and restoration, safeguarding biodiversity, and maintaining and improving ecosystem quality. The project is funded by the UK Government’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

The project will be delivered through six components covering:(1) livelihoods, tenure, and illegal wildlife trade; (2) agriculture and markets; (3) infrastructure and development; (4) ecotourism; (5) protected area management; and (6) management, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL). IUCN is leading components 3 and 4 regionally and component 5 in Lao PDR.

BLF Lower Mekong is managed by Fauna & Flora’s regional office in Phnom Penh. IUCN has offices in Hanoi, Vientiane, and Phom Penh.

The purpose of this role is to coordinate all of IUCN’s BLF activities in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam. The position will report to the Head, Lower Mekong Sub-region and be based in IUCN’s office in either Phnom Penh or Vientiane. Major tasks across all three countries are:

• Work closely with IUCN technical teams in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam to monitor and report on progress across all components.
• Lead IUCN’s ecotourism work regionally and provide technical assistance and oversight of activities across all components.
• Lead MEL activities and actively engage in the BLF Independent Evaluator exchange sessions and learning process.
• Support BLF communications in compliance with the BLF Grant Handbook and DEFRA policies.
• Lead preparation of technical reports.
• Lead preparation of quarterly, 6-monthly, and annual workplans.
• Work with IUCN country finance officers to ensure that activity costs are included in quarterly budgets.
• Participate in BLF senior management team.
• Work with country staff to secure and document match funds.
• Undertake any other tasks commensurate with the position that may be requested of you, from time-to-time, by your Line Manager.