Program Officer

2 weeks ago

Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam WCS Full time

Vacancy Announcement

Position:

Program Officer (Policy and Legal)

Reports to:

Policy Influencing Team Leader

Supervisor to:

N/A

Location:

Ha Noi, Viet Nam

Country Program:

WCS Viet Nam Program

Team/Division:

Policy Influencing

Position Type:

Full time

Internal liaison:

WCS Viet Nam's staff

Expected travel:

Approximately 35% (As required within the region if/when needed)

Organization Background


The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US non-profit, tax-exempt, private organization established in 1895 that saves wildlife and wild places by understanding critical issues, crafting science-based solutions, and taking conservation actions that benefit nature and humanity.

With more than a century of experience, long-term commitments in dozens of landscapes, presence in nearly 60 nations, and experience helping to establish over 150 protected areas across the globe, WCS has amassed the biological knowledge, cultural understanding and partnerships to ensure that vibrant, wild places and wildlife thrive alongside local communities.


WCS Viet Nam Program Overview


WCS has been working in Viet Nam since 2006, focusing on strengthening the commitment, capacity and actions of the government of Vietnam to combat wildlife trafficking.

Through support and cooperation to executive and judiciary sectors, including Ministry of Public Security, Supreme People's Court, Supreme People's Procuracy, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and the National Assembly, it has provided and shared intelligence on criminal wildlife networks which help generate well-informed decisions in enforcement operations.

WCS Viet Nam have generated a wide range of reliable data on a number of related issues on illegal wildlife trade, trained and briefed about 4,000 law enforcement officers, policy makers, journalist, researcher and managers at nation-wide in investigation and enforcement techniques, legal barriers and distributed a number of technical handbooks and guides.

It has assisted central agencies to review and propose necessary changes to national legislation, criminal intelligence analysis systems, inter-agency cooperation.

WCS has also facilitated Government to Government dialogue through multilateral and bi-lateral collaboration efforts, between Viet Nam and Asian, African and Latin American countries, to detect and respond to illegal wildlife trade networks.

Its wildlife health expertise has been leveraged to address unregulated wildlife trade and mitigation of pandemic threats, through collaborative research, training, and policy development.

Recently, WCS Viet Nam has also expanded to species conservation, with a focus on finding and protecting Rafetus Swinhoei in the wild.


Job Summary
Under the supervision of the Policy Influencing Team Leader, the Program Officer will:

  • Lead the process of policy and legal review and analysis for legal reform, and responsible for implementation and management of policy influencing work;
  • Provide legal inputs to communication, law enforcement assistance and capacity building activities, and other relevant legal drafts/materials;
  • Participate in/or coordinate the planning, design, implementation and monitoring of all WCS activities related to influencing partners and international cooperation;
  • Build networks and maintain strong relationships with governmental and nongovernmental partners, academic and training institutions/thinktanks in order to build the required political commitment for effective control of wildlife trafficking in Viet Nam.

Responsibilities

_ A. __Policy influencing and legal reform_**_ _

  • Designs strategies and implements action plan on influencing key governmental and nongovernmental partners, academic and training institutions/thinktanks to be more engaged in ending illegal trade and consumption of wildlife;
  • Conducts and provides inputs to the institutional, policy and legal reviews and analysis to identify gaps and challenges, and provide recommendations to improve legal framework on wildlife protection, countering transnational organized crimes and preventing the health risks from zoonotic diseases;
  • Monitors regularly the national legislative development to identify opportunities for WCS to influence relevant policy and legal documents formulation/improvement/revision, and leads the implementation of influencing process;
  • Contributes to providing legal inputs on certain wildliferelated violation cases to maximize the effectiveness of law enforcement activities;
  • Provides technical review to or participate in the development of training and other capacity building materials to ensure legal accuracy and consistency with current legal framework on wildlife protection, especially countering wildlife trafficking and its associated crimes;
  • Responsible for the management of WCS's Law Database by synthesizing and making regular update of new legislation

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