Organizational Setting

FAO office in Equatorial Guinea supports the country in promoting sustainable forest management, in ensuring that the country benefits from social and economic dimensions of forestry and natural resources to lift the country from poverty and food insecurity. The country office receives immediate technical support from FAO subregional office for Central Africa and from other FAO technical units of RAF and HQ.

As a follow up of the completion of a GEF project on Enhancing Equatorial Guinea’s institutional and technical capacity in the agriculture, forestry and other land-use sector for enhanced transparency under the Paris Agreement and the recommendation of the national validation workshop endorsed by the national counterpart to seek for a phase 2 GEF project with technical support of FAO, an international consultant GEF project design and formulation specialist will be recruited to support the design, preparation and finalization of a GEF project document phase 2, including relevant annexes required by the GEF before submission.

 

Reporting Lines

The GEF Project Design and Formulation Specialist will work under the general supervision of the FAO representative in Equatorial Guinea and the direct technical supervision of the Forestry Officer for Central Africa based in FAO Office for Central Africa in Libreville.

 

Technical Focus 

Project design and management, ecosystem restoration, environmental sciences, forestry, natural resource management and related field.

 

Tasks and responsibilities

The incumbent will perform the following tasks:

•    Provide technical leadership to the overall preparation process that will lead to the production of a full-sized GEF project document phase 2.
•    Conduct consultations with key institutions and stakeholders (national, sub-national, local) and ensure that relevant data and information are gathered and reflected in the Prodoc to be produced.
•    Review reports produced by the GEF project phase 1 to gather relevant points on aspects for consideration in the phase 2 project to be produced.
•    Identify constraints and threats to biodiversity conservation and propose activities to undertake by the project phase 2 to tackle these constraints.
•    Identify remaining constraints to the effectiveness of transparency in the AFOLU sector in Equatorial Guinea and propose an action plan to tackle these constraints.
•    Collect and analyze relevant inputs, data, technical reports and baseline information available at country level or from scientific and technical publications for consideration in the formulation of the project phase 2.
•    Conduct gender analysis, develop a Gender Action Plan (GAP) with specific entry points for gender mainstreaming into project phase 2 design to ensure that women, men, youth and all relevant social groups can equally benefit from the project interventions.
•    Propose realistic and effective arrangements to develop the capacity to manage environmental and social due diligence processes and activities in the project for building and enhancing the capacity of the institutions responsible for implementing the ESMF/ESMP.
•    Perform in-depth climate risk assessment and provide guidance on relevant activities to mitigate the climate risks identified.
•    Identify any negative implications/risks of the project to the communities and advise on mitigation solutions.
•    Define interventions to address identified knowledge gaps including the number of beneficiaries for each intervention, assess costs for these interventions, and propose their implementation strategy.
•    Identify remaining institutional capacity gaps of the institutions involved in the AFOLU sector to respond to the ETF, in line with national priorities on mitigation and action plan to tackle these gaps.
•    Identify remaining technical capacity gaps of national institutions in the collection, processing and analysis of data to inform sustainable forest management and respond to transparency-related requirements in the AFOLU sector in Equatorial Guinea.
•    Identify remaining technical capacity gaps of national institutions to assess and report on emissions and removals and exchange knowledge at regional level in the AFOLU sector.
•    Identify remaining capacity development gaps of national institutions on MRV linking with other reporting process under the UNFCCC that include the national communication, the biennial update report (BUR) for the AFOLU sector and REDD reporting.
•    Estimate a realistic budget to be allocated for timely implementation of the ESMF/ ESMP in the project execution phase
•    Estimate a realistic budget for all components of the project phase 2 to be allocated for its timely implementation.
•    Based on the above, produce a detailed FAO GEF Project Document for project phase 2, including all supportive files, and finalize the Prodoc after consultation and integration of inputs gathered from validation workshop to be organized and present the new phase 2 project.
•    Perform other related duties, as required.

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimum Requirements

•    University degree in forestry, ecosystem restoration, environmental sciences, natural resource management, project management, environmental project design and management and related field with working experience in this area.
•    Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in in project design and formulation, ecosystem restoration and natural resource management with practical experience of GEF project design and formulation.
•    Working knowledge of Spanish and English. Limited knowledge French would be considered as an asset,

 

FAO Core Competencies

•    Results Focus
•    Teamwork
•    Communication
•    Building Effective Relationships
•    Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

 

Technical/Functional Skills  

•    Work experience in more than one location or area of work
•    Extent and relevance of experience in project design and formulation, ecosystem restoration, agriculture, forestry and other land-use dynamics with practical experience of GEF project design and formulation.
•    Extent and relevance of experience in providing technical support and guidance to project team and in conduction field work to gather data and information for project formulation and in organizing technical workshops.
•    Extent and relevance of experience in communication, analytical, and writing skills in English and Spanish.

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements