Project Development Manager
About this position
Responsibilities
• Collaborate with management and external resources to identify new forestry project opportunities.
• Align new project planning with the organization’s capacities and market demand by working closely with management, marketing, and operations.
• Analyze and determine the feasibility of potential projects by gathering information from internal and external sources.
• Direct a team of professionals to research and optimize potential project design to fit the goals of supporters, the organization and stakeholders.
• Develop project schedules in coordination with operational and sales teams.
• Prepare budgets and financial analyses for proposals.
• Create compelling proposals tailored to specific clients or target markets.
• Participate in the presentation of proposals to potential supporters.
• Facilitate project kick-off meetings with relevant stakeholders to transfer project details to operations and project management.
• Prepare work plans and budgets for the operation of the workgroup.
• Manage the schedule for on-time production of new project proposals and requests for additional information.
Requirements
• Creative outlook to envision potential new projects
• Strong leadership
• Organized, systematic methods for on-time delivery
• Good communications
• Problem solving
• Understanding of budgets and finance
• Responsibility and ownership of projects
• Bachelor degree or higher
• Forestry graduates are preferred
• 5 years experience in forestry project design
• Experience in carbon projects is a plus
• Perfect English and Bahasa Indonesia, spoken and written
• Skilled use of office machines and software such as MS Word, Excel, etc.
• An understanding of the components needed to develop a forestry project
• Experience with nature-based carbon credit/offset project design
• Experience with community and stakeholder engagement programs