Nature Alert: Job: Executive Director, The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS)

Wednesday 8 April 2009

Job: Executive Director, The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS)

Employer: The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS)
Posted: 07 Apr 2009
Reference: 002BOS
Location: London or Copenhagen
Sector: Animal
Contract: Permanent
Position: Executive Director
Salary: Competitive

BACKGROUND

The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS) is a not-for-profit foundation supported by sister organisations around the world. BOS works under an official agreement with the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry for the conservation of orangutans and their ecosystem by involving and educating the local people.

BOS is presently running the world's largest primate conservation project and employs more than 200 permanent staff. BOS' interests cover biodiversity issues (flora and fauna), forest rehabilitation, forest inventory and monitoring, agro-forestry (to improve local peoples' welfare and education), as well as working with orangutans and other protected wildlife.

Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (Global) is the fundraising arm of the organisation. It supports the projects carried out and managed by BOS Foundation in Indonesia. It aims to raise a regular annual income of €6.5 million to run the projects and helps raise additional money (we need at least €10million in the next two years) to buy and conserve rainforest into which we can re-release the orangutans currently in our care.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Build and manage a sustainable regular source of income to ensure the steam of funding required to fund our programme.
Develop a database of regular givers and ensure they receive proper care and feedback.
Manage a balanced portfolio of income sources to ensure we are not too dependent on one source for our income.
Manage the website and ensure it is set to create maximum income for the organisation.
Test new approaches to donor recruitment and rollout successful methods across markets.
To develop and ensure the proper running of our orangutan adoption program.
To create develop and run an effective virtual gifts fundraising programme.
To manage the relationship with our donors and create an upgrade programme which ensures their continued and increased commitment of our donors.
Manage a small major gifts programme run by on staff member
Train up staff both in Europe and in Indonesia to increase their fundraising skill.
Work with BOS Foundation Indonesia to build a closer more profitable relationship.
Produce the annual plan and budget for approval by the board.
Liaise with other BOS entities, other orangutan organisations and other interested organisations in the best interest of the orangutan.
Develop basic standards of practice, codes of conduct and personnel policies for the organisation.
Work to produce effective appropriate good governance within the organisation. Support the Board in its work to set strategic direction for the organisation.
Ensure proper transparency within the organisation.
Act as a spokesperson for the organisation as required.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Required

A Fundraising Manager with a at least 5 years experience in fundraising and at least of 3 years experience of managing multiple staff.
Proven Leadership skills.
Strategic Planning experience preferably in a leadership role.
Experience of working with and managing a board
Experience of managing and developing a fundraising supporter database.
Experience of using the web to recruit and provide feedback to supporters.
Experience of running monthly giving fundraising programmes.
Experience of working in a multicultural, multi-language International NGO.
Fluent written and spoken English. Other languages an advantage.
Experience of managing staff at a distance. including the ability to integrate distant working staff into the organisation

Preferable

Experience of running and marketing a “virtual gifts” programme.
Viral marketing experience
Experience is asking for large leadership gifts of fundraising from, and managing ongoing relationships with foundations and other interested NGOs.
Excellent Communication skills
Experience working on animal welfare or environmental issues in the developing world

TO APPLY

To apply for the post please send in English a letter of application stating the skills and approach that you would bring to the post with your CV/resume (no photos) in strict confidence by email only to: recruitment@darylupsall.com

Please ensure that they are sent as Word documents with the titles “cover letter” and “CV” and the email subject line as “your name ED BOS”. Also please let us know where you saw the post advertised.

Deadline for application: 27 April 2009

For more information about BOS visit: www.savetheorangutan.org

http://jobs.thirdsector.co.uk/job/316767/executive-director

Hall of Shame for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the Palm Oil Industry.

Nothing can prepare one for the sight of the systematic extermination of orangutans by the government of Indonesia.

Look at the photos and news articles on these pages in the context of a statement the President made to the media on 10th December 2007.

“In the last 35 years about 50,000 orangutans are estimated to have been lost as their habitats shrank. If this continues, this majestic creature will likely face extinction by 2050,” President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said at the launch of an orangutan conservation plan at the climate talks in Bali.

“The fate of the orangutan is a subject that goes to the heart of sustainable forests … To save the orangutan we have to save the forest.”

Statements like these are most welcome, but unless backed up by action, such words fall on deaf ears within the Ministry of Forestry....who are busy granting licences to cut down the very forests the President says they should protect!

When you think you are to busy to help, please could you reflect for a moment on .........

The following extract refers to environmental problems in general. I just hope you find it as thought provoking and relevant to orangutans as I have.

"This is such a shocking and unpalatable fact that most people deny it, or they just don't want to think about it. They believe as individuals, they can do little about it, so push it to the back of their minds. But I can't do that.

When something has to be done, we need to do it. It doesn't matter how big the challenge is or how hard the solution; if I know something is wrong, and I am in a position to help, I will do my best to make it right." Duncan Bannatyne, successful British businessman.