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In this regard, the Rangelands Manager will perform the following:

Project Management

• In consultation with the Landscape coordinator, collaborate with multi-country implementation teams to provide leadership for the entire Time2Graze component.

• Coordinate regular and consistent communications and update Time2Graze activities and projects related developments to donors and other relevant partners, as required and in close consultation with participating country teams.

• Integrate ESSF guidelines and practices in the project implementation.

• Ensures that the Time2Graze activities are implemented in accordance with WWF standards, values and principles

Program Management and Coordination

• Provide leadership of the multi-country program ensuring that each participating country’s work package is aligned with the entire program as approved by the donor.

• Support all participating countries in annual planning and ensure coherence with project results framework.

• Lead the coordination of program wide reporting, ensuring comprehensive reporting.

• Work with the PMEL manager to plan and conduct baseline and periodic ecological assessments of rangelands, focusing on vegetation cover, biomass productivity, carrying capacity, and degradation patterns.

• Develop, validate, and maintain rangeland health monitoring protocols using both remote sensing data and ground-truthing methodologies.

• Generate ecological insights to inform rotational grazing plans and restoration activities.

• Work with other project team members to provide GIS and Remote Sensing support and analysis of High-Res imagery (e.g., Sentinel-2, Landsat) to produce spatial biomass maps, NDVI indices, and growth rate models.

• Collaborate with others to maintain geospatial dashboards and tools to visualize rangeland health trends for internal planning and external reporting.

Capacity building, knowledge sharing and cross learning

• Train and mentor community champions, technical officers, and partners in rangeland management and spatial data interpretation for decision making.

• Develop user-friendly training materials, technical manuals, and factsheets to guide field implementation and learning.

• Contribute to knowledge exchange across project countries and support WWF’s participation in national, regional and global policy engagements.

• Engage in multi-stakeholder technical working groups and represent WWF-Uganda in national-level dialogues on rangeland management and climate-smart agriculture.

• Work closely with academic, research and Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to ensure scientific rigor and validation of Decision-Support Tools.

• Coordinate with participating countries to organise both in person and virtual knowledge fairs that deepen practice and learning\

• Generate evidence from project implementation and prepare scientific papers to present at national and regional platforms to showcase contemporary

Program budget and resources management

• Coordinate with the other WWF Country Offices to ensure that budgets and expenses are on track and in line with the approved work plans and accountability are submitted to the finance team on time.

• Accountable for Time2Graze Multi-country programs by leading the development and regular review of work plans to ensure consistency with the overall project document.

• Support the Resource Mobilization in fundraising through the provision and development of transformational proposal ideas, networking and partnerships.