About Cool Earth

Cool Earth is the non-profit organisation that works alongside communities to halt and . Cool Earth focuses on the strategic choices that people who live in must make to protect the forest and survive.

Cool Earth’s support for local champions aims to boost incomes, reduce dependency on external funders and empower people in their work to protect their forest.

Cool Earth has successfully designed and implemented community projects in the Amazon and Oceania and has partnerships with local NGOs in the Congo Basin. This work across the three major rainforest biomes, includes our long running community partnerships in Milne Bay, , which started in 2015.

Cool Earth is now entering a new and exciting phase of development, where our emphasis is to engage in innovative conservation strategies and partner up with locally based actors worldwide to learn and explore new ideas for greater conservation impact. Alongside this expansion to work with more locally based NGOs and experts, we are also strengthening local leadership for our partnerships that are run by our own team in PNG to ensure more decisions are made at the local level rather than from our Europe-based HQ.

As Eco Enterprise Coordinator of the PNG programme you will be key to delivering programmes to increase income and improve livelihoods of local partners, while promoting rainforest conservation.

Job Summary

Cool Earth is looking for an Eco Enterprise Coordinator in PNG with strong community support and financial management skills and proven experience of building businesses and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with rural communities. In this role you will be responsible for coordinating delivery of projects to build resilient livelihoods and incomes to community partners in Milne Bay.

As well as an understanding of business, land rights and rainforest conservation, you will have demonstrable experience of field work with small rural communities on conservation or development projects, and an awareness of the challenges this can present.

A working knowledge of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), experience working in international projects or working with NGOs or charities will put you at an advantage.

Application

This is a new position that is currently vacant. Please apply using the application form and email it to [email protected]

The form will ask: 1. Why you wish to work for Cool Earth 2. What appeals to you about working with local people and NGO groups to protect the rainforest and support livelihoods 3. Confirm your experience using examples of how you meet each of the requirements of the role’s Duties, Knowledge, Essential Skills and Abilities, listed below Please also send:

1. A copy of your CV 2. Two line manager references, one of which must be your most recent employer. Please note, Cool Earth is part of the Inter-Agency Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct Scheme within the Humanitarian and Development Sector https://www.schr.info/the- misconduct-disclosure-scheme and will share information in the recruitment process about any safeguarding-related misconduct (i.e. sexual exploitation, sexual abuse or sexual harassment)

The closing date for applications to be emailed to [email protected] is Sunday 9th May at midnight. Interviews are expected to be held on Wednesday 12th May and Thursday 13th May, between the hours of 3pm and 8pm, using Zoom.

Job Description

Job Title Eco Enterprise Coordinator, Papua New Guinea

Department Programmes Team

Reporting to Senior Manager in PNG

Salary PGK30,000 - 35,000 Dependant on experience

Location This will be based in Alotau, Milne Bay Province. Accommodation or a living allowance will be provided

Liaising closely UK Programmes and Forest Impacts Teams / Monitoring and Evaluation with

Essential Develop business plans with community partners; coordinate establishment of Purpose of Role small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for income generation in partner communities.

Support other aspects of Office and Conservation work, as needed.

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Duties

Project Coordination

• Support community members to start -up and develop small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), businesses and income generation projects that are feasible, appropriate and environmentally conscious. • supporting SMEs and start-ups by sharing best practice and good examples of viable projects and businesses in PNG. • Support and advise community members in matters relating to business and financial management. • Work with advisors, consultants, implementation and delivery of projects, training or reporting. • Attend relevant meetings and events and write minutes and reports for the Senior Manager outlining the key points, challenges and decisions made. • Develop collaborations and networks with relevant stakeholders who can support income generation and forest conservation. • Introduce relevant stakeholders to the community partners, the Senior Manager and the UK Programme manager as necessary. • Speak with community members and answer their questions to make sure people understand Cool Earth’s forest conservation and climate change approach and objectives.

Project Development

• Develop project plans with the Senior Manager in PNG to achieve Cool Earth aims of forest conservation and protection. This will include literature research, theory of change and monitoring progress. • Support the Senior Manager to identify and develop relationships with national and local government agencies, NGOs and academic institutions that would benefit the work in PNG. • Identify and continually re-evaluate training needs of community members focussing on income generation. • Suggest relevant training or support that the communities need to the Senior Manager and develop the training resources, working with collaborators where required. • Deliver or support in the training of community members. This may include: o Financial management for individuals, SMEs and Community Associations o Assisting individuals and SMEs to develop basic business plans and links to markets o Finding partners such as NGOs, trainers, or GoPNG contacts to support community finance management and SME development.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)

• Support the Senior Manager and UK MEL team in collecting data from each partnership area and the community members. These may include income generation data, basic necessities surveys, SME and business reports. • Oversee and manage and delivery or training partners, as required by the Senior Manager.

Communication

• Act as a communication point between the Senior Manager, community members participating in the project and any relevant stakeholders. • Provide written reports on project progress, issues and challenges and updates to the Senior Manager. These may be passed to the UK Programme Manager for quarterly and donor reporting. • Work with Community engagement team to discuss updates on community initiated projects • Liaise regularly and work with the other Coordinator staff to share partnership updates, lessons learned and suggested improvements. This will include discussing community meetings, project and budget decisions, SME projects, infrastructure and training. • Represent Cool Earth, promoting its work to other communities, external specialists, local and national government representatives and relevant stakeholders.

Administrative tasks

• Attend relevant community meetings and write minutes outlining the key points, challenges or decisions made. Provide meeting updates to the Senior manager. • Be responsible for following all Health and Safety and Safeguarding policies. • Coordinate field trips to remote community villages to deliver support for partners to develop their business and for Community Associations to spend funds provided by Cool Earth • Be responsible for managing part of the budget allocated to the income generation projects, tracking project expenditure against budget. • Be accountable for spend authorised to you, following acquittal process. • Provide support to Senior Manager in designing and implementing PNG program acquittal forms for community partners. • Provide regular updates on your work through written reports and team meetings with the PNG and UK teams. • Assist and support in day to day office tasks, finance and operations as required and delegated to you.

Essential Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

● Qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience in Conservation, International Development or Business ● Fluent in written and spoken English language and Tok Pisin; Suau would be an advantage ● Proven experience in leading PNG-based business development and conservation projects in the NGO sector ● Proven experience of working in teams delivering social projects in PNG ● Proven financial management skills, including budget administration and basic accounting with previous experience of being a signatory ● Experience of delivering training ● High IT literacy with an ability to use and teach others to use Microsoft Excel ● Ability to work collaboratively as a team player in PNG, with occasional remote communication to the UK team ● Knowledge of project design, work plans and execution, with experience developing and reporting against log frames ● Understanding of and interest in the drivers of rainforest deforestation and community development practices ● A strong commitment to Cool Earth’s aims and ethos ● Willingness to make regular visits to rainforest communities and occasional travel within PNG

Desirable Knowledge Skills & Abilities

● Experience in networking and partnership building and community relationship management ● Experience in accounting and managing budgets, including training other people to do this ● Experience of working with local communities and an appreciation of issues such as Free and Prior Informed Consent, and promoting equality and diversity ● Skills and knowledge in impact measurement and experience of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems design and practical application ● Practical field experience in a conservation and development context working with local communities to enhance income. ● Project management skills ● Be able to work independently in remote communities ● Experience working with small local communities, building trust and resilience while addressing Safeguarding and Corruption

Link to Cool Earth’s vision and mission statement is here.

Website - www.coolearth.org