Forest Governance Facilitator - Solomon Islands

About Palladium:

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

This Opportunity:

Palladium are looking for a full-time forest governance Facilitator based in The Solomon Islands for the FCDOs second phase of the Forest Governance, Markets and Climate Programme. Facilitation safeguards the quality of national deliberations by promoting stakeholder inclusion, transparency, and participation in forest governance processes. These processes may relate to timber harvesting, forest clearance for mining or the production of agricultural commodities, or carbon, to name a few.

Forest governance reforms ask stakeholders to identify and accept changes to the way forests are governed. At the core of successful forest governance reforms lie deliberative processes. These processes help to build stakeholder ownership for reforms. Done well, deliberative processes increase the speed and sustainability of governance reforms while decreasing conflicts occasioned by change.

You and Your Career:

If you are an approachable and process-driven individual, and you have expertise in complex governance processes, stakeholder management/dialogue and a passion for facilitation, we are interested in hearing from you.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities: 

Facilitators are designed to work on national priorities that add the greatest value to forest governance strengthening. Tasks will vary in accordance with context specific challenges and opportunities, however Facilitators will pursue the results below: 

Strengthened design and implementation of forest governance reform processes, by facilitating:
> The identification of areas for forest governance reform and the design of processes to achieve those reforms; 
> The identification of potential impediments to forest governance reform ambitions and strategies for addressing these;
> The increased use of quality deliberation within forest governance reform processes.
 
Improved quality of deliberative processes, by facilitating:
> The mapping key stakeholders to be included in deliberative processes;
> The involvement of non-government stakeholders, particularly local civil society groups, representatives of community platforms and the private sector;
> The design and implementation of quality events within deliberative processes.

Improved coordination among key stakeholders, by facilitating:
> The coherence and co-ordination of all projects that aim to promote forest governance goals, such as illegal logging;
> Coordinated donor approaches;
> Synergies between multiple forest governance processes, such as may involve the legality and sustainability of forest-related commodities (including timber), BMRC, carbon credit schemes, mining and NDCs.

Increased national monitoring, evaluation, and learning, by facilitating:
> Ensure that any progress made in strengthening forest governance or any other significant lessons learned from implementation that may inform processes elsewhere are clearly documented;
> Ensure that information on the requirements of emerging international market standards and legislation related to the trade in timber products and agricultural products grown on forest land is effectively communicated to relevant stakeholders;
> Support national learning from international experience through initiatives that promote south-south exchanges such as learning exchanges and international learning events.

Essential Criteria:
> Extensive proven experience in development in a governmental, international, or civil society organization in a multi-cultural setting, with a track- record of success in senior-level management responsibilities.
> Experience in policy and multi-stakeholder dialogues related to forestry, agriculture, the environment, or socio- economic issues.
> Proven experience working within complex governance processes involving a diverse array of stakeholders with often divergent interests.
> A solid understanding of the complexities involved in the governance of natural resources, encompassing technical, economic, social, cultural, political, and legal dimensions.
> Soft skills including communication skills, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, tact, diplomacy, empathy, cultural sensitivity.
> Competence in conflict resolution.
> In-country experience.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.  

Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made during the recruitment process (due to disability, neurodiversity, or for any other circumstance), please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss. 

Safeguarding - We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse.  All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.