Senior Programme Officer-Karnataka State Office

WWF-India is hiring a Senior Programme Officer for their Karnataka State Office in Bangalore. The role involves managing education, outreach, and corporate engagement in conservation efforts. Responsibilities include building corporate partnerships, managing interns/volunteers, and ensuring project completion on time and within budget. Candidates should have a Bachelor's or Master's degree, 2-4 years of experience, and strong communication skills. This is a full-time position.
WWF-India is one of the largest organisations in nature and wildlife conservation in India for over 50 years now. We are seeking applications from individuals to be a part of their Karnataka State office team as a Senior Programme Officer.

As a SPO in the conservation sector , your broad responsibilities would be to work in education , outreach , corporate employee engagement and conservation . This is a cross functional role and you would be responsible for building the corporate employee engagement program, supporting ongoing work/ projects, increase public awareness, engage with educational institutes, increase volunteer base and engage with corporate partners. You would also be responsible for managing a team of Interns/ volunteers and ensuring that all projects/ tasks are completed on time and within budget.

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka State Office

Job Profile:
• Implement the various tasks/activities assigned to you by your Manager.
• Develop relationships and liaise with Govt. departments, local communities and other stakeholders, where necessary.
• Manage interns/volunteers and ensure that projects/tasks/ activities assigned are completed on time and within budget.
• Support ongoing education, conservation, outreach work, where required, and work with other internal departments to develop educational programs, employee engagement and outreach initiatives.
• Initiate and develop relationships with corporates for employee engagement, CSR/ Grants funding, corporate gifting and other relevant partnerships with the support of the KSO team.
• Efficiently manage either independently or with the support of KSO team/ volunteers activities such as Nature trails, Clean up drives, Dragon Fly Festival etc. as may be required.
• Conduct research on conservation issues and assist in the development of proposals for potential projects, where required.
• Represent the organization at conferences, meetings, and other events, where required.
• Assist in the promotion/ sales of conservation products, where necessary. You may also be required to perform other duties as assigned by your supervisor from time to time.

Requirements
• Bachelors or Master Degree Graduate.
• 2 to 4 years of experience. Experience in management, sales, client facing roles will be an added advantage.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to multi-task and work in a team as well as lead a team.
• Passion for conservation.