Position Overview:

The ‘Intervention Manager – Incentives (Natural Resource Economist)’ position will be housed in Action Area on Landscapes, and will manage our work on Incentives. The position in most part will be dedicated to enhancing results around incentives for biodiversity and landscapes, but will also contribute to strengthening the economic and financial effectiveness and efficiency of other interventions such as rangeland management, springshed management, and human-wildlife co-existence, as well as resource governance so that benefits for landscape are equitably shared among women, men, youth, marginalised communities, and Indigenous People and Local Communities. The position will contribute to designing and implementing effective incentive measures to scale and promote feasible and cost-effective NbS. The role also encompasses overall management of the Intervention on Incentives (for biodiversity and landscapes) and will also work closely with the Action Area on Economies, as well as across other Strategic Groups, particularly the Intervention focused on Investment, in the Global Action Area, sitting in the Strategic Group on Regional Action and Global Advocacy.

Background

The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region stretches 3,500km across Asia, spanning eight countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. Encompassing high-altitude mountain ranges, mid-hills, and plains, the zone is vital for the food, water, and energy security of up to two billion people and is a habitat for countless irreplaceable species. It is also acutely fragile – and frontline to the impacts of the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), based in Kathmandu, Nepal, is an international organisation serving the Hindu Kush Himalaya for more than two decades to make this critical region greener, more inclusive and climate resilient. For more information, read our Strategy 2030 and explore our website. 

About Strategic Group (SG): Resilient Economies and Landscapes

This Strategic Group (SG) focuses on supporting a move to green mountain livelihoods and restoration, conservation, and regeneration of landscapes and ecosystems across HKH. It is composed of two Action Areas: 1. Economies: Adapting and transforming livelihoods and economies, which has four interventions, and 2. Landscapes: Restoring and regenerating landscapes, which also has four interventions. This SG aims to deliver environmentally sustainable, but economically viable and socially inclusive solutions for some of the world’s most marginalised and vulnerable people as well as regenerating and restoring landscapes across the HKH. With a focus on both local and landscape levels, the work under this Strategic Group builds understanding of the implications of rapid socio-economic, climate and environmental changes on mountain livelihoods, economies and ecosystems that are challenged by their remote, fragile, and hazard-prone settings. The SG also aims to scale viable Nature-based Solutions (NbS), incentives for biodiversity and landscape conservation and restoration, as well as human-wildlife co-existence. The SG investigates which combinations of solutions might work with the realities of large-scale male outmigration, rural-urban disconnectedness, feminisation of production, coupled with rapidly deteriorating environmental health in the HKH.

Method of application

Applicants must apply online before May 25, 2025 (11:59 PM Nepal Standard Time) through the ICIMOD Vacancy Application Portal.    

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified. 

Details:

TOR_IM-Incentives_Natural Resource Economist.pdf