Directeur du Paysage Nord Cameroun/Tchad

Dans le cadre de son développement, la Wildlife Conservation Society lance un appel à candidatures pour le poste de Directeur du Paysage Nord Cameroun/Tchad. Les candidats intéressés sont priés de consulter les détails de l’offre et déposer leur candidature via le lien suivant : https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?PageType=JobDetails&partnerid=25965&siteid=5168&jobId=906210

Job Description
Position title: North Cameroon/Chad Binational Complex Landscape Director
Reports to: Country Director, Cameroon
Country Program/Sector: Cameroon
Position Type: Full Time
Location: Garoua, Cameroon
Internal liaison: All teams in Northern Cameroon and Sena Oura National Park, Chad
Reports to: Country Director Cameroon
Coordinates with: Various departments of the WCS North Cameroon program and Chad – Sena Oura Program, WCS Cameroon offices, WCS Chad offices, WCS Sudano-Sahel Regional Team
Expected travel: Frequent travel to the National parks and within the wider region

Context
The Wildlife Conservation Society works to safeguard wildlife and natural habitats through rigorous scientific research, an international environmental education programme and the management of the world's largest network of urban wildlife parks. These activities help to change people's attitudes towards nature and aim to promote viable and sustainable interaction between people and wildlife at local and global levels.

WCS has been operating in Cameroon since 1985. Through its partnership with the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF) WCS supports the Government of Cameroon to protect its biodiversity in four protected areas across the country. Currently, the WCS Cameroon programme is working on three main landscapes, namely the Takamanda-Mone Technical Operational Unit (UTO), the Mbam and Djerem National Park, and the Binational Complex of the Benoué, Bouba-Ndjida (Cameroon) and Sena Oura (Chad) National Parks. WCS Cameroon has three offices and employs 274 persons, 96% of whom are Cameroonian nationals. Approximately 200 persons are currently employed in the North Cameroon/Chad Binational Complex landscape.

WCS signed an agreement with the government of Chad in February 2023, which includes the provision of technical support in areas such as the conservation of wildlife, forests and fisheries. This includes the management of protected areas, such as Sena-Oura National Park, and the establishment of a number of projects to protect and study specific populations of charismatic large wildlife.

WCS started working in the North Cameroon/Chad Binational Complex in 2013 to install protections for wildlife. Since 2016, WCS has acted in a technical advisory capacity to MINFOF in the management of the protected areas in the landscape. This involves providing support to the management units of Bouba Ndjidda National Park (BNNP) and Bénoué National Park (BNP). Bouba Njidda National Park covers 220,000 hectares, and is surrounded by seven hunting zones totaling 500,000 hectares of Protected Areas. It also includes Bénoué National Park, composed of a core area of 180,000 hectares and fourteen hunting zones extending over 1,047,874 hectares. Importantly, the largest program in WCS Cameroon’s portfolio is North Cameroon/Chad Binational Complex, that extends from Bouba Ndjidda into Chad’s 73,500 hectare Sena Oura National Park. This transboundary project and its field team are managed from WCS’s office in Garoua in coordination with WCS offices in Pala (Chad)