ATREE is seeking an experienced professional to lead reviews, analyses, studies, consultations, and recommendations on mountain-specific policies related to biodiversity conservation, landscape restoration, and bio-resource use in the project landscapes and States. The policy vision will be guided by global, regional, national, and state mountain policies from IHR.

You will be a key member of a versatile team led by the Director – The Himalaya Initiative. You will represent ATREE with external stakeholders, including government departments in the project states, IHR states, and at the national level, and will collaborate closely with regional teams in the IHR and at ATREE headquarters in Bengaluru.

About ATREE

The Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) is a non-profit organization that generates rigorous interdisciplinary knowledge for policy and practice, supporting environmental conservation and sustainable, socially just development.

In the Himalaya, ATREE’s strategy is to work towards a future where resilient mountain and downstream societies sustainably enjoy the natural endowment of the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) while protecting and preserving its rich biodiversity. ATREE has developed a 10-year strategy called “The Himalaya Initiative (THI),” focused on the IHR amid increasing biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and climate change.

Project AMP-Himalaya is funded by the Rural India Supporting Trust (RIST), co-financed by Conservation International and Global Conservation, within the THI strategy, for a 5-year project period. The project aims to conserve biodiversity, restore landscapes, and foster human well-being in the Indian Himalayan Region. Three key areas prioritized to achieve the goal in the IHR are: 1) Assessment, Monitoring, and Conservation of Biodiversity; 2) Restoration of Multi-functional Landscapes; and 3) Nature-based Rural Livelihoods and Climate Change Resilience. Integral to these priorities are: creating digital knowledge commons to accelerate participatory management and local stewardship; strengthening human resources through training programs for local youth leaders and expanded environmental education opportunities; and creating conditions to develop and implement multi-level, mountain-specific policies that prioritize biodiversity conservation and natural resource management at scale.

The project is being implemented in 3 distinct landscapes located in 3 states and 1 union territory of IHR, namely: the Khangchendzonga Landscape covering the Darjeeling hills of North Bengal and Sikkim state; the Trans-Himalayan Landscape representing a high dependence on rangelands with agro-pastoral and pastoral systems in Ladakh; and Arunachal Pradesh with the largest, greenest, ethnically diverse and most biodiversity-rich landscapes.