OuTrop Operations Manager Sabangau, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia OuTrop is looking for a new Operations Manager to manage its main field project in Sabangau, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The field project includes: three primate behaviour projects (orangutans, gibbons and red langurs), biodiversity surveys, camera trapping, forestry research, regeneration research in our seedling nursery, numerous student and short-term research projects, and supporting a variety of on-the-ground conservation initiatives implemented by our local partners. The successful candidate will provide overall management support to the Project Directors, Scientists and other staff, to help ensure the successful delivery of all Project objectives. You will have overall responsibility for the OuTrop field research project and all staff, students, volunteers, interns and visitors that work on the Project. Working together with our Primate Scientist and Accounts Manager, you will be responsible for daily research team schedules, personnel management, project financial management, health and safety, all project facilities and equipment, coordinating with the CIMTROP camp manager and kitchen staff, and working with the Field Director to help further our conservation objectives. You will provide an in-country advisory role to the Communications Manager, write monthly reports for the Board of Directors and contribute to the development of the OuTrop project both in-situ and to a wider audience. You need to familiarise yourself with all OuTrop projects, including accompanying research and volunteer teams in the forest, and maintain regular communications with the Project Directors and all field team members, plus our partners and collaborating researchers, as relevant. If you are suitably qualified, provision of scientific support/advice to non-primate field research activities may also be required.
We are looking for a highly organized person, with excellent coordination and team management skills, and preferably with tropical research experience and a dedication to wildlife conservation. The candidate needs to be motivated, flexible, empathetic, patient, amicable (good social and political skills), well organized, a good communicator, and physically and mentally fit. This role requires the ability to integrate multiple tasks, responsibilities and staff supervision as it's a transverse role across the project. Applicants must also have the ability to cope well under stress and readily master new skills. Previous experience of similar projects in Indonesia and ability to speak Bahasa Indonesia to conversational level are strongly preferred. Deadline: Friday 25th July 2014, with completed reference letters to be received by Friday 1st August 2014. Interviews are expected to be held within the first half of August, with the successful applicant then starting work in Indonesia as soon as can be arranged thereafter (anticipated October-November 2014). More information and application details are attached, and can also be found here: http://www.outrop.com/work-with-us.html
