Vacancy #: 1505 Unit: Global Forest and Climate Change Programme Reporting to: Deputy Director, Knowledge, Policy and Environmental Governance - GFCCP Work percentage: 100% Function group: P2 Expected start date: 01 May 2017 Type of contract: Fixed-term (24 months) BACKGROUND The IUCN Global Forest and Climate Change Programme (GFCCP) is seeking a Senior Forest Officer to lead efforts to build support for and track progress on the Bonn Challenge via the Bonn Challenge Barometer. This includes provision of support to IUCN regions to enable related and demand-responsive implementation at the national and sub-national levels. To date, more than 140 million hectares have been pledged to the Bonn Challenge – a global effort to bring 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested