Rangelands Manager

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The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is hiring a Rangelands Manager responsible for cross country coordination of the Time2Graze initiatives in line with the country’s strategic plan and specific country contexts. This role involves collaborating with diverse stakeholders, including government agencies, local communities, NGOs, and international partners, to drive the transition towards low emission and climate-smart grazing systems, ultimately contributing to country specific climate change policy agendas. The Manager will ensure the effective implementation of the project outcomes, promote cross country learning, and enhance the impact of WWF’s programs.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

In this regard, the Rangelands Manager will perform the following:

Project Management

In consultation with the Landscape coordinator, collaborate with multi-country implementation teams to provide leadership for the entire Time2Graze component.

Coordinate regular and consistent communications and update Time2Graze activities and projects related developments to donors and other relevant partners, as required and in close consultation with participating country teams.

Integrate ESSF guidelines and practices in the project implementation.

Ensures that the Time2Graze activities are implemented in accordance with WWF standards, values and principles

Program Management and Coordination

Provide leadership of the multi-country program ensuring that each participating country’s work package is aligned with the entire program as approved by the donor.

Support all participating countries in annual planning and ensure coherence with project results framework.

Lead the coordination of program wide reporting, ensuring comprehensive reporting.

Work with the PMEL manager to plan and conduct baseline and periodic ecological assessments of rangelands, focusing on vegetation cover, biomass productivity, carrying capacity, and degradation patterns.

Develop, validate, and maintain rangeland health monitoring protocols using both remote sensing data and ground-truthing methodologies.

Generate ecological insights to inform rotational grazing plans and restoration activities.

Work with other project team members to provide GIS and Remote Sensing support and analysis of High-Res imagery (e.g., Sentinel-2, Landsat) to produce spatial biomass maps, NDVI indices, and growth rate models.

Collaborate with others to maintain geospatial dashboards and tools to visualize rangeland health trends for internal planning and external reporting.

Capacity building, knowledge sharing and cross learning

Train and mentor community champions, technical officers, and partners in rangeland management and spatial data interpretation for decision making.

Develop user-friendly training materials, technical manuals, and factsheets to guide field implementation and learning.

Contribute to knowledge exchange across project countries and support WWF’s participation in national, regional and global policy engagements.

Engage in multi-stakeholder technical working groups and represent WWF-Uganda in national-level dialogues on rangeland management and climate-smart agriculture.

Work closely with academic, research and Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to ensure scientific rigor and validation of Decision-Support Tools.

Coordinate with participating countries to organise both in person and virtual knowledge fairs that deepen practice and learning

Generate evidence from project implementation and prepare scientific papers to present at national and regional platforms to showcase contemporary

Program budget and resources management

Coordinate with the other WWF Country Offices to ensure that budgets and expenses are on track and in line with the approved work plans and accountability are submitted to the finance team on time.

Accountable for Time2Graze Multi-country programs by leading the development and regular review of work plans to ensure consistency with the overall project document.

Support the Resource Mobilization in fundraising through the provision and development of transformational proposal ideas, networking and partnerships.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

Master’s degree in Rangeland Ecology, Environmental Science, Natural Resources Management, or a related field;

Post graduate training in Project Planning and Management is desirable

Training and understanding of GIS and Remote Sensing is an added advantage

At least 7 years of relevant professional experience

Proven experience in project management with multi-stakeholder collaboration

Experience implementing Natural Resources Management and Rangeland Projects

Required skills

People management and partnership development skills

Excellent organization skills

Superb oral and written communications skills

Proven interpersonal skills and ability to establish and maintain effective working relations with people in a multi-cultural, multi-interest, multi-ethnic environment

Ability to handle complex processes and information integration issues

Ability to coordinate major capacity building activities, planning, development and implementation of capacity building initiatives

Good team leadership and team membership

Ability to establish priorities and to plan, coordinate and monitor own work plan and those under his/her supervision

Able to work effectively under minimum supervision

Must be detail-oriented and can multi-task

Adherence to WWF’s values, which are: Integrity, Courage, Respect, and Collaboration

How to Apply:

Email an application cover letter, Curriculum Vitae and contact details of three (3) referees plus copies of academic qualifications (sent as one PDF document) clearly indicating “the job title” in the subject line to:

recruitment@wwfuganda.org

Kindly note that due to the large volume of applications only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Deadline: 7th November 2025

NB

: WWF is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to having a diverse workforce