Head of Country Angola

About Our Client
Our client is a new organisation coming to life in Q1 2023. It is being co-founded by purpose-driven professionals with different cultural backgrounds and with several years of experience in nature conservation, clean energy, rural development, real estate, and e-commerce. Or client 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. Our client´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 market for payments for their ecosystem services.
About this role
The Country Head will be the leader in Angola. They will be a sub-Entrepreneur who will help build our client 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 the 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.
Responsibilities
• Lead the organisational set-up process and thereafter account for all business operations in the country ( Angola)
• Build and the lead the Operations, Legal, Finance and Human Resource teams
• Maintain an overview of all the projects in the four above mentioned 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
Requirements
• 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, specially local authorities
• 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 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
• 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, social or economics studies is a plus
Why this role is for you?
• 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
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Requirements
• 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, specially local authorities
• 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 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
• 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, social or economics studies is a plus

https://www.greenwavehire.com/