Fauna & Flora International
Fauna & Flora International (FFI) saves species from extinction and habitats from destruction,
whilst improving the livelihoods of local people. Our guiding principles are to work through local
partnerships, act as a catalyst for change, make conservation relevant and base decisions on
sound science. Founded in 1903, FFI is the world’s longest established international conservation
body; our conservation work, and impact, spans the globe.
Extractives & Development Infrastructure Programme
FFI has been working with the extractives and development infrastructure sectors for over 25
years. The Extractives and Development Infrastructure Programme is a highly strategic and
technically competent unit engaged in cross-sectoral alliances, collaborations and field
interventions. The Programme is core to FFI’s continued success and positioning in the
conservation arena. We provide innovative solutions to biodiversity challenges including
biodiversity strategies, biodiversity management planning, offsets, risk & opportunity assessment,
and we are increasing our work on International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) and other Multilateral
Financial Institution’s Performance Standards and requirements. Our aspiration is to create an
environment where the extractives and development infrastructure sectors make a net positive
contribution to biodiversity conservation. FFI focuses its strategy for engaging with these sectors
on three main competencies:
• Direct partnerships with companies to help them manage their impacts on biodiversity,
ranging from advising on biodiversity policy issues, to assisting companies in developing
and delivering biodiversity strategies and action plans
• Identifying and influencing the levers for change in business performance (such as the
financial markets and government policy and planning) to drive a long term process of
positive change in the way that business manages its impacts on biodiversity
• Tracking, investigating and responding to issues relevant to both business and biodiversity
by developing innovative partnerships and alliances
FFI is responding to rapidly changing contexts where landscapes are increasingly fragmented and
altered by indirect and induced impacts associated with ancillary and linear infrastructure
developed to reach minerals or economic development nodes. We have operated primarily with
exploration and mineral exploitation in a wide range of countries and areas including Brazil, Chile,
USA, Italy, North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, the North Sea, Indonesia, Middle East, Mongolia,
SE Asia, the Americas and Australia. We have recent and active engagements with the following
companies: Anglo American, Eni E&P, BP, De Beers, LafargeHolcim, Newmont, ERM, Mott
MacDonald, RSK, The Biodiversity Consultancy and others.
Working with Business for Conservation
FFI works with companies and Lenders that are strategically committed to effective biodiversity
management and conservation. We require operations to work to understand and manage their
impacts on biodiversity, following the mitigation hierarchy and aspiring to global best practice
standards such as committing to net positive contributions to biodiversity and ecosystem services.
In order to recognise and manage their risks, it is important that companies understand the
biodiversity contexts of their operations in order to identify and, where appropriate, mitigate
potential impacts and capitalise biodiversity opportunities associated with the company’s
operational and exploration sites.
Potentially, almost all that an operation does will have some possible impact on biodiversity. Such
impacts are not limited to endangered or threatened plants and animals but include the impacts on
ecosystem services and the natural value of land. Opportunities exist to help companies
strengthen the management of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a highly motivated, skilled and experienced individual to provide technical
expertise to our work with the extractives and development infrastructure sectors across FFI’s
global conservation programme. You will work closely with the Director and Senior Technical
Specialists within the team, working to integrate biodiversity management at a strategic and
operational level in both marine and terrestrial environments. You will contribute technical
expertise, working on the characterisation and management of biodiversity across global
operations whilst enabling FFI’s commitment to objectives-based frameworks for biodiversity at the
interface with large scale development. You will be experienced in the development and
implementation of a full spectrum of biodiversity and ecosystem services management, including
the application of environmental impact assessment, environmental and social safeguards,
biodiversity risk assessments, developing Biodiversity Action Plans, implementing the mitigation
hierarchy, and conceptualising and planning biodiversity offsets. Your position will also interface
with FFI’s engagement with sectoral initiatives such as IPIECA, International Council on Mining
and Metals and other Communities of Practice and business and biodiversity forums.
This role will require technical and management skills, contributing to and supporting a range of
FFI projects and supporting technical delivery. You will be expected to work independently,
providing support to programme managers and senior technical staff. The role will require
international travel to meet project objectives and programme development requirements. As a
technical member of the team, you will be expected to work closely with colleagues and partners
across FFI global conservation programmes and to encourage the use of global best practices and
objectives led frameworks to ensure the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services aspects
into all aspects of our work in the extractives and infrastructure sectors.

Terms and Conditions
Start Date: As soon as possible
Duration of Contract: Open
Probation Period: Six months
Salary: circa £32,000 per annum
Location: Fauna & Flora International, Cambridge UK, with options for flexible
working conditions.

Benefits: 25 working days’ annual holiday entitlement plus Public/Bank
Holidays and any normal working days that fall between 24
December to 1 January inclusive, during which time FFI UK offices
are closed
For employees on UK-based contracts, FFI currently provides a
pension contribution of 8% of salary after 3 months’ continuous
employment.
Group Life insurance, currently set at a benefit of 4 x basic salary
Hours of Work: This is a full-time position, working Monday to Friday from 9.00am to
5.30pm, with a one-hour lunch break.
Job Description
Job Title: Technical Specialist, Extractives & Development Infrastructure
Reporting to: Senior Technical Specialist, Extractives & Development Infrastructure
Overall objective
Provide technical expertise to the work programmes and partnerships within the extractives and
infrastructure sectors. Support the Director and Senior Technical Specialist in the delivery of
technical expertise to FFI’s Cross-cutting and Regional Programmes and our partners, including
the range of technical input required to deliver net positive impact with our corporate partners.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
• Contribute to net positive approaches and promote best practice for the management of
biodiversity and ecosystem services in the extractives and infrastructure sectors across FFI’s
global programme
• Provide technical support to guide and challenge approaches to managing the impacts of the
extractives and infrastructure sectors on biodiversity, including delivery of collaborative
biodiversity management projects at operational sites and advice on emerging biodiversity /
business issues such as biodiversity offsets, landscape level planning and performance
measurement
• Support the implementation of global best practice biodiversity conservation measures
including those meeting IFC’s PS6, EBRD’s PR6 and the Equator Bank standards to achieve
no net loss or a net positive contribution to biodiversity and ecosystem services
• Ensure appropriate design and use of geospatial and analytics tools to enable effective and
sustainable implementation
• Provide day to day technical support to key extractive sector projects including project strategy,
planning, risk analysis and working with the Director and Senior Technical Specialist and FFI’s
key consultants to deliver high quality technical projects
• Support the delivery of new opportunities within the private sector within FFI’s key geographic
regions of activity in accordance with FFI’s strategic aims and objectives
Tasks to include:
• Support the effective technical delivery and sustainable implementation of net positive
approaches, landscape level assessment and planning initiatives in the extractives and
infrastructure sectors
• Provide technical expertise to deliver best practice standards for the management of
biodiversity and ecosystem services
• In consultation with a broad range of stakeholders, support the design and implementation of
net positive approaches to compensate for residual biodiversity impacts of major extractive and
infrastructure projects
• Assist, through the provision of strategic and technical advice, extractives sector operations in
developing their approach to managing and monitoring biodiversity
General
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the FFI Business Plan
• Ensure all work delivered in full compliance with FFI policies and procedures, including Focal
Point and the Delegation of Authorities
• Represent FFI projects and programmes to external parties as requested
• Track emerging issues linking to extractives and development infrastructure and participate in
priority events as requested by Line Manager
• Undertake any other tasks commensurate with the position that may be requested of you, from
time-to-time, by your Line Manager
• Produce and work within annual budgets, maintain accounts
• Manage key projects
• Support the Senior Technical Specialist, EDI to produce reports as required by partner
organisations, the EDI Programme and FFI’s internal reporting processes
• Support the Senior Technical Specialist, EDI with respect to FFI’s input into the sectoral
initiatives drawing on the skills and expertise of FFI’s wider conservation team and partners
• Contribute to discussions on biodiversity and sustainability within the extractives sector and
other relevant forums
• Support the Director, EDI and Senior Technical Specialist, EDI and wider team as and where
required
Person Specification
Essential Desirable
Skills • Proven technical expertise as a business &
biodiversity practitioner
• EIA and IFI ESS practitioner
• Sector experience – extractives and/or
infrastructure
• Excellent technical report writing skills
• Strong communication and presentation
skills (written and verbal), to both technical
and non-technical audiences
• Strong project management skills with
experience in project planning, financial
management, reporting and evaluation
• Strong organisational, prioritisation and
time management skills
• Ability to think laterally and creatively
Excellent spoken and written English
• Grant application writing
• Italian, French, Spanish
or Portuguese language
skills
Knowledge
and
experience
• A post-graduate Degree or equivalent level
qualification in a biodiversity conservation
or environmental management related
subject (e.g. geography, international
development or environmental studies,
natural sciences)
• Proven track record and experience of
working on environmental and/or
conservation issues in a developing
country context or of environmental issues
within the private sector
• Experience in biodiversity risk assessment,
action planning, monitoring and impact
assessment in the field
• Demonstrable expertise and application of
the mitigation hierarchy including
biodiversity offsetting and associated
metrics
• Proven knowledge of and application of
IFC’s PS6 and EBRD’s PR6
• Knowledge and application of ecosystem
services assessment tools
• Expertise in and application of biodiversity
metrics, measurements and indicators
• Experience working in or with cross-sector
partnerships
• Experience of corporate
environmental
management systems
and environmental
impact assessments
gained in an
international
environment
• Good understanding of
international
conservation and of the
NGO sector
• Knowledge and
experience of SDGs
Behavioural
qualities
• Highly motivated and driven
• Excellent team player
• Pragmatic
• Flexible and adaptable
• Ability to show initiative, to work
independently
• Reliability and efficiency
• A self-starter
Other • Entitlement to work in the UK
• Commitment to FFI’s mission and values
• Strong, demonstrable commitment to
conservation
• Ability and willingness to travel, including at
short notice to remote international location
FFI Values
Values underpin who we are and how we act. Just as values shape who we are as individuals,
they define us as an organisation, creating the culture of success for which FFI is renowned. Our
people exemplify our shared values, which are interconnected and interdependent:
• We act with integrity
• We are collaborative
• We are committed
• We are supportive & respectful
• We get things done
How to Apply
Applications should consist of the following:
1. A covering letter outlining how you meet the requirements of the role and your motivations for
applying
2. A full CV and contact details for two referees (who will not be approached without your
permission)
3. An example of a recent project you have undertaken that you consider demonstrates your
ability to apply the skills called for in the job description given above
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