Craig Bruce Email & Phone Number

Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Jamma International is an expanding philanthropic organization focussed on investments thatwill result in measurable impacts that contribute to the wellbeing of the planet and people. As theDirector of Conservation and Communities my goal is to create an organization recognized for excellence not only in the projects it supports and the partners it attracts but in terms of the way it invests in those projects.Jamma’s strategic objectives are focussed on carefully selected projects which will resultin clearly defined impacts that maximize the value of Jamma’s investments.As the Director of Conservation and Communities for Jamma International, I am accountable fordeveloping strategic direction and managing operations within the organization. The current focusrevolves around conservation through a sustainable use lens and mental health with thedevelopment of our Lifeskills project. Recent projects and activities have included:• Development of a comprehensive five-year strategy for Jamma.• Creation of new partnerships and expanding current networks to meet the needs of Jamma’sstrategic aims.• Setting up project management and administrative processes to enhance Jamma’s ability tomanage and evaluate performance of project partners and our own performance, in terms ofmeasurable impact,• Investigate proposed projects and areas of interest to determine Jamma’s possiblecontributions and/or level of participation.Craig Bruce Page 2• Technical support for partners in terms of project design and budget/administrative inputs.• Represent Jamma at forums and boards in organizations where Jamma has an interest.• Identify and facilitate the employment of highly skilled individuals to increase the capacityof the Jamma team.• Oversee the development and implementation of a Jamma media initiative which includes anew website and social media strategy.• Support and develop new talent within the Jamma Team.To be added..

England, United Kingdom

Assisting and advising the Resource Africa team in their mission to support rural Africancommunities in their efforts to secure their rights to access and use their natural resources in orderto sustain their livelihoods. We seek to build strong platforms for collaboration, knowledge, skillssharing, and joint advocacy to ensure community voices are heard in debates that materially affecttheir lives.We believe that when rights are upheld and incentives for conservation are provided to those wholive with wildlife there will be positive conservation outcomes benefitting people and nature.

London, United Kingdom

As a consultant for a variety of conservation and environmentally focused clients, I utilise my extensive background in conservation, wildlife, and community/human resources to provide technical and operational support to selected organisations. I regularly collaborate with senior management to develop standards for protocols in the wildlife and tourism industries. I have also authored and revised a number of strategic approaches, project plans, functional specifications, proposals and cost assessments.Projects I have worked on have been varied. As an example I consulted for African Earth in Kenya on the development of communities and enhancing livelihoods by improving agricultural capacity. This included working on improvements all the way through the value chain. From securing seed for farmers in the communities to making sure markets in Europe understood what went into the produce they were receiving from local communities in Kenya.

Regents Park - London

Leveraging my background in international conservation management, I effectively consolidated and expanded the Zoological Society of London’s Asia Programme in five country offices located in Russia, Nepal, Indonesia, Thailand, and Mongolia while maintaining quality work for conservation projects in China and India. not only I also supplied technical support for the Philippines programme. My duties included cultivating strong professional relations with the Conservation Programme Director to develop robust strategies and approaches. I was accountable for day-to-day operations of country offices including HR, finance and operations. I was responsible for the Asia senior management team in London which facilitated operations overseas. I was also lead negotiator with donor agencies and responsible for overall management of the Asia team which included planning global meetings and trainings for senior management team and managers.● Spearheaded efforts that secured £11M grant from DFID for conservation in Indonesia.● Directly managed a diverse team of 200 professionals based throughout Asia (small senior management team in London) and held bottom-line accountability for training, overall supervision, and implementing policies and procedures to optimise efficiency and effectiveness.● Successfully implemented new procedures to measure programme success by having all country and senior biologists in London form a team to establish data collection protocols across countries regarding wildlife and habitats.● Initiated revision and redesign of country and continental conservation strategies for Asia to fit into broader global strategy.

London, United Kingdom

While serving as the Senior Programme Manager for Asia, I directly oversaw programme operations in Indonesia, Thailand, and Russia while supervising programme management in Mongolia, Bangladesh and and Nepal. Asia programme strategy. I also designed and executed robust policies in two regions within the Asia Programme, and related country offices to ensure smooth work flow, while continuing to facilitate ongoing country manager requests and those of the relevant programme managers.● Increased the size of the Asia project portfolio by £3.5M. ● Restructured existing systems, as well as formed new systems to effectively optimize management of human and financial resources.

London, United Kingdom

This Africa position at ZSL was one that had not been filled for some time. It was one of two Africa regional positions that reported directly to the head of regional programmes. There were three main areas of focus. The first was Kenya and guiding the relatively new country manager in setting up the country office. The second was our withdrawal from a rather large and complex project in the DRC which ZSL had decided was no longer worth the risk, lastly I was tasked with expanding ZSL’s programme in Africa. I spent my first month in London for induction on ZSL systems, then a month in Kenya with the country manager scoping various options particularly in and around Tsavo National Park. The outcome was the foundation of a good country strategy focused initially around a Tsavo landscape for five years. This ultimately led to creation of the ‘Rhino Bond’ concept of which I was one key author. This concept has become a major funding source for ZSL in the Tsavo landscape. Our discussions formed the foundation of a later IWT proposal with Defra that is funding a substantial part of ZSL’s work in Kenya. In Kenya I connected the new country manager with the SMART development group and with the team responsible for working on the Green List of Protected Areas in Kenya.After Kenya I was based in South Africa for six months as part of my arrangement with ZSL where I began reaching out to contacts in Southern Africa for possible opportunities for ZSL. Some of this work resulted in collaboration with Hluluwe/ Umfolosi Rhino Reserve in the Rhino Bond assessments, it also led to training in use of the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) with the Game Rangers Association in Africa (GRAA) in South Africa. Before I returned to London I was appointed Senior Programme Manager for Asia.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Protected Area and Enforcement Specialist for the Tiger NI (Tigers Alive) Initiative at WWF in Malaysia. As a key senior member of the Tigers Alive Global Initiative team, I was involved in conceptualizing and implementing many of the key strategies WWF took forward as part of the its Global Tiger Initiative. These were concepts such as CATS - a set of standards for Protected Areas with tigers, SMART - I was part of the original development team that brought SMART to life. The Zero Poaching concept - a paradigm shift in how success in anti poaching should be now taken onboard by various governments in Asia. TX2 a concept looking at areas where with a minimum of strategic interventions could result in rapid growth of the tiger population to meet targets such as doubling the number of tigers.

n June 2008 I was offered a two year extension to my existing contract in the capacity of Landscape Manager. The Eastern Plains Landscape Project (EPLP) is an ambitious project based on the successes of the Srepok Wilderness Area Project in the Mondulkiri Province of eastern Cambodia. The geographical boundaries of the project contain some 800 000 hectares of possibly the last contiguous wilderness left in SE Asia. The project aims to increase and protect a variety of priority species in the landscape, specifically asian elephant, indochinese tiger, clouded leopard and the 3 indigenous wild cattle species.The project takes an holistic adaptive management approach to protection of the landscape over four major areas of operation namely: area security (includes wildlife protection), research, ecotourism development and community extension work. The EPL manager is responsible and accountable for these areas of operation and management of 95 employees of different skill levels, abilities and cultural backgrounds. The EPLP manager coordinates all activities in terms of resource distribution and is responsible for the Mondulkiri regional office consisting of 5 administrative and financial staff. The expertise and skills base required for this post is extensive as well as being trans and inter-disciplinary. The EPL Manager heads up strategic planning for the project and is pivotal in terms of communications particularly with local and national government. All work plans, financial requests and controls are approved by the EPL manager. There is a large element of capacity building and training. Responsibility for all 12 project budgets, amounting to some 700 000 USD per annum, are held within this post. Inputs and management are required across a myriad of activities all happening simultaneously in the landscape ranging for example, from occupancy survey design to ecotourism lodge design and from community livelihood development to ranger patrol management.

Protected area management specialist, supplying technical advise and management expertise to the Cambodian Government on management of the unique dry forest ecosystem in the northeastern plains of Cambodia. The job includes direct management intervention and technical support in the areas of community extension work, eco tourism development, scientific research and law enforcement. The project is multifaceted and requires high levels of expertise in a number of different disciplines and demands the capacity to be independantly motivated.

Regional Land Manager responsible for 3 separate protected areas varying in size from 3000 hectares to 16000 hectares. Managed large commercial enterprise consisting of a combination of ecotourism, live game sales and bed and breakfast. Managed 51 staff, 3 junior mangers a number of admin and human resources staff and the general workforce. Position was multifaceted. Required skills in biodiversity management, protected area management, land planning, marketing, ecotourism, infrastructure development and maintenance, human resource management, safety, health and environmental management.

Responsible for management of a 20 000 hectare protected area containing a large variety of game species. Managed a small ecotourism enterprise ad 11 staff. Responsible for all admin and human resources with the hep of an assistant. Skills needed here included protected area management expertise, infrastructure development and asset maintenance experience and god mechanical and maintenance expertise. I also managed a group of ten riding horses for this enterprise.

Day to day operation on the Manketti consisted of tasks normally associated with a large reserve. Organizing of staff. Maintenance of vehicles, engines, borehole pumps and solar pumps. Construction and maintenance of fences, pans, roads etc. I designed and built wildlife holding boamas, rehabilitation pens, intensive breeding camps, raptor housing and numerous blinds and hides. I co-ordinated all game counts and vegetation monitoring. I have a high level of computer literacy and have worked with both technical and other packages at a variety of levels.; In Botswana I was responsible for 3000 hectares of game ranch and operated on an additional 20,000 hectare concession. The management objective was to improve the condition of the degraded ranch. This was achieved by initiating intensive veldt management through game fencing the entire area, supplementing wildlife nutrition with mineral licks, managing water points and carrying capacity through culling and live capture. I was responsible for all management duties including the tourism infrastructure, financial and administrative controls. In 1995 I was offered the opportunity to continue to manage the ranch on a consulting basis, up until a very promising position arose in South Africa.

A developing company which owned 9,000 hectares on the border of the Hwange National Park and an island (Msuna) on the Zambesi river.Created an entire infrastructure of roads, watering points and fences, on Sotani Ranch to support wildlife. Established and trained anti-poaching teams for protection and monitoring. Initiated the hunting operation and assisted the National Park in monitoring cape hunting dog (wild dog) and designed a game census program for the ranch. Using locally available materials of stone and thatching grass, I designed and constructed a tourist camp consisting of a central recreational area, four chalets and manager's residence. As the ranch is situated in a remote part of Zimbabwe with no communications logistics were a challenge. Msuna island was a fishing / photographic destination and tourism operations involved the management of an 8 berth houseboat with tenders and two luxury cottages. Control and co-ordination of publicity, reservations, maintenance, catering, staff and administration was my responsibility.Immigration laws left me no option but to return to South Africa.

As a ranger at Motswari my duties were similar to those at Ngala. In April 1990 I was promoted to manager at M'Bali. At this 14-man camp I was responsible for coordination of all staff, guest-related services such as game drives and catering. Management of this camp also gave me responsibility for the area. The Timbavati is a reserve with significant biodiversity value and ranger duties extended to assisting with capture of wildlife species.

Conducting game drives and organizing/co-coordinating all guest related activities. Camp and park maintenance, this included bush clearing maintaining water pumps, road construction and soil conservation.Initial experience

Namibia On completion of schooling, I joined the administration department of the Post Office for three months, before my military call-up. I was selected for the State President's Guard and served 21 months, inclusive of 6 months active duty. On completion of military service I returned to the Post Office and was appointed to the regional director's office in Durban. The nature of the work was administrative. I resigned after two years to travel overseas.

Master In Protected Area Management

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