Head of Forest Protection (Ghana)

About the Organisation Rainforest Builder is a large-scale tropical forest restoration company operating in West Africa, focused on restoring degraded, biodiverse ecosystems through long-term, community-centred projects. Building a world-class protection department to protect 100,000 hectares. With operations across multiple countries, a workforce of 2,000+ employees, and thousands of hectares already restored, the organisation is scaling towards 100,000+ hectares under management in the next three years. Projects are long-term and aligned with leading international standards (e.g. VERRA VCS, CCB), delivering measurable climate, biodiversity, and socioeconomic outcomes in partnership with global organisations and local communities.

The Role This is a senior project-level role reporting to the General Manager of Project Akwaaba, Rainforest Builder’s flagship restoration project based in Bibiani, Ghana, responsible for ensuring that restored and protected forest areas remain secure and viable over the long term. Threats that need to be managed include illegal logging, mining and farming; which cause forest degradation or loss. Forest Protection is the core focus of this role, requiring the design and leadership of large-scale, field-based protection operations. The successful candidate will bring a strong background in land or asset protection and has experience in establishing teams of guards, intelligence networks and monitoring capabilities (i.e. drones, spatial data, security tracking systems). We currently use the SMART software system but are open to other software options subject to your experience. You will be responsible to put in place Standard Operating Procedures, monitoring processes, Key Performance Indicators and other fundamentals of this department. Your initial focus would be Project Akwaaba but the handbook that you put in place there will then need to be rolled out across our other active projects (Project Colobus in Ghana and Project Buffalo in Sierra Leone).