🌍 JOBHUNT MONDAY | What happens when biodiversity protection, natural resources and community rights meet the law?
📍 Freetown, Sierra Leone | 🌐 Remote | ⏳ 3 months
UNEP’s 3-month remote consultancy is seeking an Environmental/ Natural Resources Law specialist based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to support its Nature Frameworks Support Unit within the Biodiversity and Land Branch, Ecosystems Division.
🔎 They’re looking for someone with:
• An advanced degree in environmental law, development law, international development, natural resource management or a related field
• At least 5 years’ experience in legal drafting or environmental governance
• Experience with Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) frameworks and the Nagoya Protocol
• Expertise in biodiversity conservation, sustainable development and environmental law
• Knowledge of intellectual property, community rights and customary law
• Understanding of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
🌱 IMVELO Impact: Africa’s natural resources are under growing pressure—but protecting them is not only about conservation. This role is an opportunity to put environmental law to work where nature conservation, sustainable development and the rights of communities intersect.
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