Junior National Forest Restoration Specialist

The Junior National Forest Restoration Specialist will support forest restoration activities under a Green Climate Fund project in Armenia. The role involves delivering hands-on training, monitoring planting and silvicultural operations, and providing technical support to local stakeholders to enhance forest resilience and sustainable management.

Responsibilities

• Conduct tree marking in compliance with the “selective upgrading” methodology.
• Support Hayantar SNCO and respective community-based stakeholders to select sites for “selective upgrading” in various consolidated communities in Syunik Marz and related tree marking at the selected sites, as well as in the subsequent stages of planning and implementing tree harvesting operations.
• Conduct on-the-job training for Hayantar SNCO and local community members on adaptive management measures (“selective upgrading”) in degraded coppice forest stands (knowledge sharing, “learning by doing”, discussions and feedback).
• Oversee day-to-day on-site technical implementation of silvicultural measures (tree harvesting operations) by the local workforce in degraded coppice forests following the “selective upgrading” instructions, as well as the implementation of tree planting work on restoration sites in Syunik Marz, assess the progress, identify challenges and provide recommendations for improvements as appropriate.
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to ensure proper implementation of silvicultural measures in degraded coppice forests and of tree planting activities on restoration sites.
• Follow up and backstop activities in the Sisian nursery based on the instructions provided by the international specialist and national expert on seedling production, or other relevant project staff.
• Provide guidance and technical support to address any issues related to adaptive management of degraded coppice forests and forest restoration as appropriate.
• Prepare concise field visit monthly reports documenting progress, technical observations, identified risks, corrective actions and agreed follow-up responsibilities.

Requirements

• University degree or secondary education preferably in forestry, natural resource management or a related field.
• 1 year of relevant work experience in the field of forestry and training organization.
• Working knowledge of English and Armenian.
• National of Armenia.
• Experience with methods and techniques in relation to forest and landscape restoration.
• Demonstrated ability to adopt new ideas.
• Demonstrated commitment to participatory and bottom-up approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate, including advocating to government agencies.
• Experience in conducting trainings is an asset.

Skills

• Forest Restoration Methods
• Silvicultural Operations
• Forest Monitoring
• Training Delivery
• Technical Support
• Participatory Approaches
• Advocacy to Government
• Natural Resource Management
• Landscape Restoration
• English Language
• Armenian Language

Languages

English, Armenian