Responsibilities :

• Planning & Strategy:

  • Contribute to the design and implementation of NEOM’s Regreening Initiative strategic objectives and goals by providing inputs into the adaptive strategy over time

  • Work closely with the scientific advisory body procured to help plan and implement the NEOM

   

• Regreening strategy

  • Work closely with senior leaders in other sectors and with external stakeholders to raise awareness of

   

• Regreening objectives, opportunities, and challenges and supporting their conservation and management

   

• Efforts through integration into project design and delivery in relation to values of NEOM.

  • Collaborate with relevant NEOM staff members and leaders to identify required projects and initiatives that support the achievement of NEOM’s regreening and habitat restoration vision

  • Help develop appropriate native species plant palettes for habitat restoration

   

  Manage Field Restoration Operations:

   

  • Help plan, implement, and manage the field operations for the Regreening Initiative

  • Help identify, organize, procure, and work with NEOM teams to construct, manage, and maintain

  required facilities and services for successful regreening activities, including nurseries and exclosures

  • Work with nursery and seed collection specialists to support active restoration activities

  • Help instill a culture of development, guidance, and performance within restoration teams

  • Take responsibility, in collaboration with Managers and Director, Land Conservation, for building and

  maintaining a high-performance team

  • Manage field restoration contractors and teams to carry out professional and efficient habitat

  restoration field projects

  • Participate in setting performance requirements and recruiting for staff for positions for habitat

  restoration activities

  • Set performance objectives, provide necessary support, evaluate / appraise staff and provide regular

  feedback on performance

  • Promote a high-performance working environment embracing NEOM’s values

  • Help support effective monitoring of progress and effectiveness of regreening and habitat restoration

  approaches, techniques, and technologies

  • Help with identifying, testing, and reporting on new approaches and technologies to facilitate habitat

  restoration at scale

  • Help establish monitoring indicators, approaches, and evaluation processes for habitat restoration and

  regreening efforts

  • Assist in monitoring passive restoration and evaluate drivers

Educational requirements:

Experience requirements:

• Experience with arid land regreening and natural habitat restoration programs
• Experience working with government agencies, scientists, protected area managers, restoration

Desired Skills:

• Strong leadership skills and proven ability to simultaneously manage a wide number of different

   

• Functional areas and multiple staff.

  • Have good skills in project management including proposals, scope of work, managing contractors,

Qualifications:

• • A creative and agile approach to workplace challenges, able to adapt and find solutions to rapidly

   
• changing conditions and challenges

  • A proven ability to motivate staff and provide appropriate developmental opportunities that increase

   
• operational performance

  • A willingness and ability to conduct field work in Arabian desert, savanna, and montane arid

Benefits:

Will be negotiated

Incentives:

Will be negotiated

How to Apply for NEOM?