Project Coordinator

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Organizational Setting

Below the GCF Readiness and Preparatory Help Programme, the FAO Regional Workplace for Asia and the Pacific, in collaboration with six international locations of Southeast Asia, will implement a three-year undertaking of strategic regional motion entitled “Agriculture Sector Readiness for enhanced local weather finance and implementation of Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture priorities in Southeast Asia”. The international locations included underneath this collaborative undertaking are: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. The undertaking might be carried out in shut coordination with the respective NDAs and the Ministries of Agriculture by way of the ASEAN Local weather Resilience Community focal factors of every taking part Southeast Asian nation. This regional undertaking will construct capability to entry local weather finance for the agriculture sector and create alternatives to scale promising fashions at nationwide and regional ranges. The undertaking may also allow international locations to share experiences and co-create proposals for sector particular local weather motion on the regional stage with private and non-private sector local weather and agriculture finance specialists. Funding plans will deal with facilitating farmer’s entry to capability to entry capability, assets and finance to handle local weather change dangers.

A regional undertaking staff and 6 nation primarily based nationwide undertaking groups might be established for the efficient implementation of the undertaking. Whereas the regional undertaking staff will oversee undertaking implementation progress and preserve communication with the remainder of the PMU to make sure a easy circulation of labor, the nationwide undertaking staff will lead the implementation of the undertaking actions within the nation and coordination for the regional actions.

To assist the implementation of the undertaking actions, FAO Nation Workplace is searching for a motivated, dynamic candidate to function a Nationwide Coordinator and Local weather Finance Specialist.
This place is searching for for six specialists (one specialist for every nation) who might be primarily based on the FAO Illustration Places of work in Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, the Philippines. The place might require some subject visits within the undertaking protection areas

 

Reporting Traces

The Mission Coordinator reviews on to the FAO Consultant and works in coordination with the Assistant FAO Consultant (Programme). Moreover s/he’ll work underneath the technical supervision of the Lead Technical Officer (LTO) from FAO-RAP and in collaboration with the Regional Coordinator and Worldwide Agriculture and Local weather Change Specialist and Regional Mission Workforce primarily based at FAO-RAP, the FAO-GCF Coordination Unit, and with devoted undertaking workers and operational companions at nation stage.

 

Technical Focus 

Local weather change and Agriculture, Adaptation, Mitigation, Economics, Local weather Finance, Mission Administration

Duties and obligations

The Mission Coordinatoris anticipated to guide, monitor and coordinate the undertaking actions on the nationwide stage.

Most particularly, the s/he’ll undertake the next duties:

•    Lead implementation of the undertaking on the nationwide stage together with oversight of the nationwide professional staff and monitoring the everyday implementation and progress of the undertaking actions.
•    Gather baseline info and put together inception section reviews.
•    Lead coordination of the agriculture local weather change funding planning and undertaking design course of underneath Outcomes 2 and 4 of the undertaking.
•    Put together inputs and supplies on local weather, local weather change and local weather change impacts on agriculture.
•    Work with worldwide specialists to implement nationwide stage evaluation workouts.
•    Coordinate with related stakeholders on the nationwide stage together with PSC members from the NDA and Ministry of Agriculture in addition to ASEAN CRN members, DAEs, Public, non-public and civil society actors.
•    Help the regional PMU together with the monitoring of undertaking actions on the nationwide stage, together with the nationwide finances
•    Coordinate nationwide participation on nationwide and regional stage trainings, workshops and information exchanges.
•    Determine and coordinate potential synergies with different related initiatives, programmes and initiatives to make sure alignment and coherence
•    Perform every other related duties inside his/her technical competence as could also be requested by FAO.

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimal Necessities

•    An Superior College diploma in local weather change, pure assets administration, environmental economics or any related matters
•    Not less than seven (7) years expertise in undertaking administration and demonstrated information of worldwide local weather finance, particularly the inexperienced local weather fund structure and adaptation and mitigation agendas of the UNFCCC.
•    Working information of English
•    Nationwide of Philippines

 


FAO Core Competencies

•    Outcomes Focus
•    Teamwork
•    Communication
•    Constructing Efficient Relationships
•    Information Sharing and Steady Enchancment

Technical/Useful Expertise 

•    Good command of pc expertise (MS Phrase, Excel, Energy level, Web)
•    Information of the executive insurance policies and procedures of the United Nations and Worldwide Organizations.
•    Efficient communication expertise that emphasize teamwork.
•    Information and expertise in institutional capability growth
•    Information of and familiarity with agriculture and sustainable pure useful resource administration
•    Confirmed capability to conduct fieldwork and talent to work in groups and set up working relationships central and native authorities establishments and civil society organizations
•    Prior expertise with the UN and/or worldwide organizations is an asset

 

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  • FAO doesn’t cost a charge at any stage of the recruitment course of (utility, interview assembly, processing)
  • Functions acquired after the deadline won’t be accepted
  • Please observe that FAO solely considers increased instructional {qualifications} obtained from an establishment accredited/acknowledged within the World Larger Training Database (WHED), an inventory up to date by the Worldwide Affiliation of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO). The record could be accessed at http://www.whed.net/ 
  • For extra employment alternatives go to the FAO employment web site: http://www.fao.org/employment/dwelling/en/
  •  Appointment might be topic to certification that the candidate is medically match for appointment, accreditation, any residency or visa necessities, and safety clearances.


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