Deputy Director General - CIFOR, Bogor

The Center for International Forestry Research advances human wellbeing, environmental conservation and equity by conducting research to inform policies and practices that affect forests in developing countries. We are one of 15 centres within the CGIAR. Our headquarters are in Bogor, Indonesia, and we have offices in Asia, Africa and South America.

Not many research centres have a global engagement with a broad range of forest-related issues, stress the perspectives of poor countries and communities, combine policy and research, question conventional wisdom and constantly focus on how to have impact. CIFOR is one of those few. We are looking for a Deputy Director General who share our passion for enhancing the role of forests in human well-being and environmental conservation, and our commitment to professionalism, innovation, impact, and collaboration.

The Deputy Director General will serve as CIFOR’s chief operating officer, with delegated responsibility from the Director General for leading, planning, executing, managing, and monitoring the full range of CIFOR’s global research and impact-oriented activities. This role requires coordination of activities across three CIFOR research programmes and their contributions to CGIAR research programmes (CRPs), regional and project offices, and the support services provided by information, human resources, and finance and administration units. Detailed description of the position is attached.

Dynamic, innovative and proactive people who work well in teams of multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environment, communicates well and have excellent interpersonal skills are invited to apply.