Job
Wildlife Conservation Society
Regional Human Rights Specialist
📍 Rwanda
🏷 Governance & Public Policy
🗓 Posted 15 Oct 2026
- Advance human rights integration across Wildlife Conservation Society's Africa-wide protected areas management portfolio, ensuring conservation action respects and protects Indigenous Peoples and local communities
- Lead the development and implementation of human rights policies, frameworks, and guidance for WCS Africa programmes and partner organisations
- Coordinate with regional and national staff, protected area managers, and landscape leads to embed rights-based approaches into conservation practice across multiple countries
- Deliver training, technical support, and capacity-building to WCS teams and partners on human rights due diligence, community engagement, and conflict resolution
- Drive evidence-gathering and analysis on human rights impacts within conservation contexts to inform strategic decision-making and programme improvements
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