Project Delivery & Knowledge Management NGO Job WWF

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The Manager for Project Delivery and Knowledge Management serves as the Project Management Officer (PMO) for the Global Impact Hub team, ensuring that strategic initiatives, deliverables, and workstreams are effectively planned, tracked, and delivered on time, with a focus on team performance, coordination, and alignment across the WWF network.

They also provide knowledge management and secretariat support to key network communities, such as the Joint Implementation Conservation Committee (JICC), supporting the development and dissemination of the agenda, capturing and disseminating meeting notes and key action points and ensuring all stakeholders are informed and aligned.

The Manager also works closely with the Knowledge Management hub impact lead and other stakeholders to curate, package, and share high-impact case studies, best practices, and learning products through appropriate channels (e.g., the Roadmap Virtual Hub), thereby strengthening the evidence-base for conservation impact.

Finally, the Manager provides support to the Senior Director Conservation Impact, by delivering timely updates on projects and tasks, surfacing risks and opportunities, and preparing progress reports that inform governance and strategic decision-making.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Team PMO / Strategic Deliverables (50%)
• Act as the strategic PMO for the Conservation Impact team, ensuring that all team workstreams and deliverables are well-planned, monitored, and delivered to high standards(e.g., coordinating timelines, tracking dependencies, and flagging risks).
• Coordinate the annual and quarterly work planning process for the Impact Hub, ensuring all team members’ deliverables align with overall strategy and priorities.
• Support the Senior Director in tracking team-level KPIs, milestones, and progress against Roadmap 2030 and future global strategy/roadmap, focusing on outcomes, learning, and impact.
• Ensure that inputs to the Snr Director for key leadership engagement (e.g., board updates, leadership reports,) are consolidated and delivered on time.
• Identify and flag project risks or bottlenecks in project delivery by recommending process improvements, tools, and templates.
• Develop consolidated reports (narrative, dashboards, scorecards) highlighting progress against annual objectives and Roadmap milestones.
• Facilitate alignment across team strategic workstreams, ensuring that outputs from conservation data, learning activities, and knowledge are integrated effectively to maximize the team’s efficiency.
• Ensure project documentation, workflows, and deliverables are standardised and archived for accountability and knowledge retention.
• Knowledge Management (40%)
• Provide project management services to the Joint Impact Collaboration Committee (JICC), supporting the Senior Director, GIH.
• Coordinate agenda-setting, facilitation, and follow-up of JICC meetings to ensure alignment, learning, and progress across the Network.
• Escalate challenges, risks, and opportunities identified through JICC to the Senior Director, providing strategic guidance and supporting decision-making.
• Support the synthesis of lessons learned, high-impact examples, and best practices from JICC + Impact Community of Practice to strengthen adaptive management and inform team and network priorities.
• Manage collaboration with the Knowledge Management Hub to ensure that insights, outputs, and lessons learned are systematically captured, curated, and shared across the Network through appropriate channels (e.g. Roadmap Virtual Hub), and that their uptake is monitored and maximized
• In coordination with the Head of Measurement and Impact, package evidence into usable knowledge products (e.g., case studies, success stories, learning briefs) that demonstrate value for the network and support resource mobilisation, communications, and adaptive management.
• In coordination with the Head of Measurement and Impact, work with KM Hub, Practices, and country offices to design and run structured learning sessions (e.g., peer-to-peer exchanges, online and in-person events, case-sharing formats).
• Provide basic project management training and support to team members to improve consistency and efficiency.
• Miscellaneous Responsibilities (10%)
• Lead special projects, ad-hoc initiatives, and cross-functional tasks that arise outside the core responsibilities. This may include supporting emergent priorities as directed by the Senior Director, Conservation Impact; contributing to organizational initiatives; representing the team in meetings; and engaging in learning.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced degree in conservation, environmental management, international development, organizational strategy, or a related field.
• Relevant experience in monitoring, evaluation, learning, knowledge management, and project management, preferably in a global conservation or international development context.
• Experience synthesizing technical PMEL outputs into leadership-facing insights and recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multi-stakeholder committees or learning communities (e.g., JICC, Impact Community of Practice (CoP)).
• Project management certification (e.g., IPMA, PMP) is an asset.

Required Skills And Competencies

• Strong project management skills (PMO), including planning, tracking, and reporting on multiple workstreams.
• Excellent ability to translate technical data into clear, compelling narratives for leadership and network audiences.
• Strong knowledge of conservation impact frameworks, monitoring systems, and adaptive management principles.
• Experience working in global, networked organizations, collaborating across functions, teams, and offices.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Analytical thinking, problem-solving, and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-dimensional team.
• Fluency in English (additional WWF languages an advantage).
• Embraces WWF values: Courage, Integrity, Respect & Collaboration.

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