Project Director

WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) is one of the world's largest and most respected independent conservation organizations, with almost 5 million supporters and a global network active in over 100 countries. WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the earth's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.

With projects and offices in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, WWF Greater Mekong Programme Office is working to conserve 600,000 km2 of mainland Asia's most biologically diverse, economically significant and threatened forests and rivers, which are found in the Mekong Region and home to more than 300 million people in the region.

WWF Greater Mekong Programme Office (WWF GMPO) is seeking to recruit a full-time Project Director (full-time) to be based in Hue/ Quang Nam in Vietnam or  Salavanh/ Pakse in Lao PDR.

The Project Director leads the management and implementation of a major new project, the Annamites Carbon Sinks and Biodiversity Project in Southern Laos and Central Vietnam. This includes responsibilities for technical, financial and administrative aspects of the Project.He/she will oversee the development of management systems, operational procedures and capacity building for key project counterparts.

Detailed TORs of the positions are posted on www.panda.org/greatermekong.

Interested candidates should email a cover letter, curriculum vitae and available degrees and qualifications in English to vacancy@wwfgreatermekong.org by 6 March 2011.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.