Campaign Manager Mama Misitu Campaign

TNRF is a membership-based organization that focuses on the improvement of natural resource governance in Tanzania. TNRF brings members and partners together and helps them to bridge the gap between their local natural resource management needs and practices and national natural resource management priorities, policies, laws and programs. One of the programs managed by TNRF is the Mama Misitu Campaign. TNRF is currently looking for a

 

Campaign Manager

Mama Misitu Campaign

Dar es Salaam

 

Mama Misitu is a communications campaign aiming to improve the governance of Tanzania’s forests and reduce illegal forest harvesting, so that the people of Tanzania can increasingly benefit from sustainably managed forests. Through the campaign, the communities learn about various participatory forestry mechanisms for strengthening their rights to forests and their ability to benefit from the sustainable management of their forests. 

As the Campaign Manager for Mama Misitu, it will be your responsibility to build a strong team of implementing partners who work in the districts as well as at national level. You will be facilitating these organizations to increase their knowledge, strengthen their voices and stimulating dialogues between them. The Campaign Manager gives leadership to the Campaign Coordination Staff consisting of 4 employees as well as to consultants. The Mama Misitu Campaign office will based in Dar es Salaam, and there will be frequent travel to districts where the campaign is implemented. To be successful in this challenging job, you need to be an excellent communicator. Furthermore it is important that you are able to cope with sometimes conflicting interests and to work at different levels of government and private sector, with civil society and with local communities. Your political and cultural sensitivity enables you to smooth complex processes and through your negotiation skills you are able to gain people’s support for proposals and plans.

 

You have obtained a Master’s degree , for example in Natural Resource Management, Communications or Political Science. You are passionate about the needs for better governance of natural resources in Tanzania and you have a strong experience in working in civil society networks at community and national levels. You will have proven project management skills and experience.  Being fluent in English and Kiswahili is an important requirement. This job is only open for Tanzanian citizens.

 

Candidates for this job are kindly requested to send their CV accompanied by a cover letter to Ms. C. Huls at dar@mdf.nl . For enquiries about the job, TNRF or Mama Misitu, please contact Ms. C. Huls (+255 716 604 621) or Mr. G. Mwanjela (+255 684 009 575). Cover letters should be sent latest by April 4th 2012.