I. Major Function

The Wildlife Monitoring Coordinator will support and coordinate the survey and monitoring activities in the Landscape Programme, and ensure other projects and initiatives are aligning with wildlife conservation goals.

Major Responsibilities:

1. Understand landscape conservation objectives and work with the supervisor to develop a long term suvery and monitoring plan for different priority sites

2. Ensure that the plan aligns with intergrated landscape management and informs key species and habitat indicators

3. Work with the supervisor to operationalize the long term plan for each year, developing a detailed work plan for each priority site

4. Support and work with partners to carry out field surveys and monitoring in the priority sites. This includes
a. Field training and hand holding the team on survey and monitoring methods
b. Ensuring proper and functioning gear as well as clear roles and responsibilities in the team
c. Ensuring all the logistics, permissions and timelines are coordinated with limited disruption to the plan
d. Produce and keep stock of equipment as and when needed

5. Work closely with GIS team and ensure systematic storage and formatting of data across WWF’s wildlife and landscape team

6. Analyse and generate meaningful insights from the data

7. Coordinate with other teams to ensure programme alignment. For instance
a. Ensure that environmental education and behaviour change work incorporates species conservation and reduced hunting and trade of threatened and protected species
b. Ensure that livelihoods and agriculture programme incorporates species conservation agreement and community based monitoring

8. Provide technical support to all DTL prject so that biodivetristy is properly captured

Education and Experience

• Bachelor and/or Master degree in conservation biology or related field
• 3+ years of on the ground work experience in survey and monitoring
• Experience in collating and analysing survey and monitoring data
• Strong interest in environment and biodiversity conservation
• Ability to work under pressure and coordinate with different stakeholders
• Fluency in English language
• Fluency in Karen and/or Myanmar language is an asset