Angola Country Head
Há 6 dias
Your mission
The Country Head will be KAYA's leader in Angola. They will be a sub-entrepreneur who will help build KAYA's portfolio of conservation and restoration projects in a landscape over more than five million hectares. In this process, they will soon be helming a regional organisation of over fifty employees. They will be KAYA's ambassador in the southern African region. They will work very closely with the Co-founders in building the organisational brand and business strategy. From skills, they should be an environmentalist with a business acumen and experience of working in environmental markets.
Your responsibilities
- Lead the organisational set-up process and thereafter account for all business operations in the country
- Build and the lead the Operations, Legal, Finance and Human Resource teams
- Maintain an overview of all the projects in the four abovementioned teams and review closely the most critical ones
- Identify landscapes and collate supporting information in close cooperation with the Chief Climate Officer for new project development
- Work with the Co-founders in ensuring smooth cooperation between Angola Office teams and the Berlin Head Office teams
- Be the organisation's liaison to the government and public offices in the country for the relevant matters
- Ensure high standards in organisational compliance to matters of law, finance and integrity
- Work with the Co-founders in positioning the organisation in the region and represent it in working groups, regional conferences, associations, and among sectorial peers
Your profile
- Over five years of experience leading country or regional programmes in environmental work
- Experience of leading multiple teams while having a strong understanding of the duties of those teams
- Experience in financial planning and executive reporting
- Experience in networking and positioning at multiple levels
- Ability to relate with and manage relationships with government at federal and local levels
- Familiarity with market-based conservation and restoration programmes, like carbon market, biodiversity protection mechanisms, and commodity supply chain conservation mechanisms, is desirable.
- Willingness to be based in Luanda or a mutually agreed location in Angola
- Willingness to travel internationally, both in Africa and outside
- Openness to co-creating structures, processes and culture at a start-up while being patient through the developmental phase
- Possibility to contact former employers
- In addition to English fluency, working proficiency in Portuguese is a must
- Experience of working in southern Africa is desirable and experience of working in Angola is a plus
- Higher education in environment and social studies is a plus
What we offer
- Offer of a job with purpose
- Opportunity to work for the planet and people
- Opportunity to learn about climate change mitigation and adaptation from first-hand experience
- Global exposure through international colleagues and intercontinental work travel
- Possibility to become part of an organisation in its developmental phase
- Chance to experience life in Angola
We at KAYA stand for equal opportunities and recruit based on capability and performance. We welcome everyone who shares our passion and cares about contributing to our vision to hand in their application.
About us
KAYA is a Germany- and Angola-based organisation that came to life in 2023. It was started by purpose-driven professionals with different cultural backgrounds and with several years of experience in nature conservation, clean energy, and rural development. KAYA's vision is to mitigate climate change by working with nature. In doing so, it also aspires to support the impacted communities and societies in accessing new livelihoods and becoming more resilient. KAYA's mission is to develop multi-year landscape-scale conservation and restoration projects in terrestrial ecosystems. It will bring the developed projects upon maturity to the nature market for payments for their ecosystem services.
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