Wildlife Health and Conservation Team Leader

6 days ago

Hanoi, Vietnam WCS Full time

**Vacancy Announcement**

**Position**:
Wildlife Health and Conservation Team Leader

**Reports to**:
Country Director

**Supervisor to**:
Program Officer(s) and Program Assistant(s)

**Location**:
Ha Noi

**Country Program**:
Viet Nam

**Team/Division**:
Wildlife Health and Conservation (WH&C)

**Position Type**:
Full-time

**Internal liaison:
WCS Viet Nam Program Managers, Turtle Conservation Coordinator (NY based Species Program), WCS NY’s Health Programs

**Expected travel**:
Approximately 60%, or as required

**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 with executive and judiciary sectors, including the 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 has 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, journalists, researchers, and managers nationwide in investigation and enforcement techniques, legal barriers and distributed a number of technical handbooks and guides. It has assisted central agencies in reviewing and proposing necessary changes to national legislation, criminal intelligence analysis systems, and 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 mitigate 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 Country Director, the WH&C Team Leader is responsible for:

- Overseeing wildlife health and species conservation projects in consultation with relevant WCS Viet Nam Program Managers, Turtle Conservation Coordinator (NY-based Species Program), and WCS NY’s Health Programs,including development, execution, coordination, and monitoring related activities;
- Contributing to the technical works of the team and providing technical inputs to other related grant activities;
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with relevant government agencies, the donor community, research and academic institutions, and individuals in wildlife conservation in Viet Nam.

**Responsibilities**

**A. **Grant/Project Development and Implementation**
- Oversees the team’s work plans and budget from inception to execution and reporting;
- Leads the implementation and monitoring of the team’s activities in Viet Nam;
- Oversees the procurement and inventory of supply and equipment, including reagents, diagnostic kits, and consumable materials for animal health and species conservation works;
- Provides veterinary/health and species conservation technical inputs into other WCSteam’s products, e.g., grant reports, IEC materials, training materials, policy briefs, and vice versa;
- Generates reliable and professional data to catalyze conservation action (report, map, infographic, statistic...) and scientific evidence of zoonotic transmission in wildlife trade chain in coordination with WCS and WCS’s partners, as relevant;
- Oversees the work of the sub-grants, if any, including field-based surveillance activity;
- Provides inputs into and assuresthe quality of relevant reports and updates;
- Provides inputs in grant proposal development, including technical and financial ones;
**B. **Data Management and Analysis**
- Oversees the field data collection, data entry, and data management associated with sample collection and tests, and animal management associated with species diversity survey, in-/ex-situ conservation programs;
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