For the complete Terms of Reference, please see the attached document
Title of the Assignment: Project Manager, Panda Impact 360, Network-wide PMEL Development
Contract Type: Consultancy Service Agreement
Work location: Remote with periodic in-person engagement
1. Background and Project Context
Panda Impact is WWF International’s PMEL (Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) platform, developed to support more consistent and structured strategic planning, monitoring, reporting and learning across projects. PI360 represents the next phase of this platform, a phased expansion intended to serve as the definitive Network-wide PMEL solution for WWF Country Offices (COs), National Organisations (NOs) and Associate Organisations (AOs).
The solution is structured around three pillars:
1. Pillar 1: Replacement of CPM as the Network solution for collecting and managing project-level information.
2. Pillar 2: Built-in functionality for RM2030 annual reporting.
3. Pillar 3: Optional full PMEL functionality for NOs that wish to plan, monitor and manage their domestic strategies, programmes and projects within PI360.
Pillars 1 and 2 are mandatory Network capabilities required for all offices. Pillar 3 is optional for NOs, but must be delivered within the same project timeline. The project must deliver all three pillars through one integrated development, validation and rollout pathway, with full operational readiness required before the 2027 RM2030 annual reporting cycle.
Delivering Pillar 2 fully and enabling reliable data entry in Panda Impact across the Network requires a validated, network-wide spatial dataset for landscapes and project sites. This dataset does not currently exist in a consistent or complete form. Historically, the Network has operated under differing definitions of what constitutes a landscape, an operational landscape and a project site, resulting in an incomplete global inventory and geospatial data collected on an ad hoc basis. Consistent, complete, and comprehensive spatial data on where WWF works is essential for effective planning, implementation, monitoring (including RM2030 indicator calculation) and communication and will be a critical step in realizing our 2030 ambition as a Network.
WWF has developed the foundational guidance to address this: the 2020 Landscape Definitions Guidance Note, establishing a two-tier hierarchy of Umbrella Landscapes and Operational Landscapes; the Panda Impact Planning and Monitoring Levels Guidance, linking spatial data to monitoring levels; and the WWF Places Data Collection Workplan, setting out the technical architecture using ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online and Survey123.
A dedicated workstream within the PI360 project, the Places Data Workstream, will bring these elements together through a network-wide exercise to review, validate and develop WWF’s landscape and project site spatial data across 50–100 field offices. This workstream will produce, for the first time, a comprehensive and scientifically validated register of landscape names and project site names, each accompanied by standardised geospatial data integrated into the WWF ArcGIS Enterprise database. These data will become part of WWF-I Master Data set and will be available to multiple applications and users, including Panda Impact.
2. Purpose of the Role
WWF International is seeking an experienced Project Manager, engaged on a consultancy basis, to deliver a defined set of outputs supporting the end-to-end implementation of PI360, from initiation through to business-as-usual handover. The consultant will work across technical, business and change workstreams to produce the deliverables set out in Section 4 within the agreed schedule and to the agreed quality.
The consultancy covers deliverables across all project workstreams: platform development, data governance, network validation and rollout, and the production of a validated, ArcGIS-integrated landscape and project site dataset. These workstreams are interdependent and the deliverables are expected to be produced on a coherent shared timeline, supported by the project's governance arrangements and a single coordinated engagement approach to the Network.
This is a complex, multi-stakeholder consultancy requiring proven experience in delivering enterprise system implementations and large-scale network-wide data exercises, ideally within international NGOs, conservation or development-sector organisations. The consultant must be equally comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders, producing risk and governance documentation to a high standard, and coordinating inputs from a distributed set of contributors to meet deliverable due dates.
Submission instructions
Subject line: “RFQ/RFP – [Subject] – [Bidder Name]”
Deadline: by 23:59 (CET)
Currency :( ie) CHF
Late submissions will not be considered.
For RFP submissions, technical and financial proposals should be submitted as separate documents.
For the complete Terms of Reference, please see the attached document