Vietnam Environment and Climate Consultant

Place description

Environmental Incentives (EI) seeks to contract a senior biodiversity and local weather change advisor to supply technical help to the USAID/Vietnam Surroundings Crew by way of the Bettering Design, Proof, and Studying (IDEAL) exercise. This consultancy is a superb alternative for somebody who has demonstrated experience in surroundings and local weather points in Vietnam, strategic planning for worldwide improvement packages, and serving to groups to study, collaborate, and adapt all through the USAID Program Cycle. The advisor will present material experience on biodiversity conservation, local weather change, and combating wildlife trafficking programming; technical help and facilitation of strategic planning processes, equivalent to exercise design and Monitoring, Analysis, and Studying Plan improvement; and capability strengthening assist for USAID employees in Collaborating, Studying, and Adapting (CLA). The advisor might be half of a bigger staff of IDEAL employees and consultants offering technical help to the USAID/Vietnam Mission. 

Consultancy Description

This can be a distant task for a Vietnam-based candidate in or close to Hanoi. Candidates in different components of Southeast Asia might be thought-about on a case-by-case foundation. The anticipated stage of effort is anticipated to be about 20 hrs every week for as much as six months beginning as quickly as April 2024, however can fluctuate relying on the wants of the USAID/Vietnam surroundings staff. Compensation might be commensurate with expertise. 

The Vietnam Surroundings and Local weather advisor will present technical assist and advisory providers to USAID. They may work throughout exercise design, technique improvement, monitoring, analysis, and studying to assist USAID/Vietnam advance cohesive, evidence-based packages and apply adaptive administration. Particular duties are topic to alter, however it’s anticipated that the advisor could:

• Present assist (in individual and nearly) for Program Cycle wants inside the USAID/Vietnam Surroundings Workplace (exercise design, technique design, exercise start-up, pause and mirror processes, monitoring, analysis, and studying) utilizing a number of strategies and approaches.
• Help course of enchancment engagement, together with facilitating exercise co-designs, organizational improvement facilitation providers, and broad-based stakeholder engagement actions to tell programming.
• Advance USAID biodiversity and local weather change targets by offering coaching and steering on subjects equivalent to proof use and era and adaptive administration to Company employees and different stakeholders.
• Help different employees and consultants with CLA capability constructing for Mission employees, growing information administration programs, and planning and facilitating inner and exterior studying occasions (conferences and workshops).
• Help different employees and consultants as they design and conduct a number of forms of evaluations, equivalent to rigorous efficiency and/or affect evaluations of biodiversity and local weather change packages, to advertise studying, take a look at assumptions of key theories of change, or consider progress towards Company targets.

Doable further duties could embody:

• Offering technical help to USAID/Vietnam and implementing companions in growing monitoring, analysis, and studying plans, in addition to reporting on program indicators.
• Researching, synthesizing, and disseminating findings on chosen local weather change, combating wildlife trafficking, and biodiversity subjects as directed, equivalent to adaptation and mitigation subjects, nature-based options or ecosystem providers, and direct and oblique threats to biodiversity.
• Supporting different employees and consultants to provide outreach supplies, together with infographics, truth sheets, brochures, newsletters and/or movies.

{Qualifications}

{Qualifications}, and information, abilities, and skills of a profitable surroundings and local weather advisor embody the next. 

• Bachelor’s diploma and seven+ years of related expertise; Grasp’s diploma and 5+ years related expertise or equal mixture of schooling and expertise within the fields of Environmental Science, Conservation Biology, Sustainable Growth, or different associated fields.
• 5+ years of expertise in biodiversity conservation interventions in Vietnam, significantly in combating wildlife trafficking. Further expertise in a number of of the next subjects is most well-liked: sustainable forest administration, pure local weather options and sustainable landscapes programming, land use administration), and built-in surroundings packages.
• Demonstrated information of the USAID Program Cycle, the Conservation Requirements or different programs instruments to enhance program logic in exercise design and implementation.
• 5+ years of expertise supporting grownup studying in USAID or different overseas help businesses (together with NGOs, contractors, or worldwide organizations) together with facilitating communities of apply or designing and implementing collective studying agendas.
• Background in exercise design, capability constructing, monitoring, studying, and analysis, analysis, organizational improvement, or adaptive administration of local weather, biodiversity, and built-in packages.
• Expertise planning and facilitating teams, conferences, or occasions.
• Expertise working in Vietnam, significantly working with Authorities of Vietnam entities and NGO stakeholders.

Information, Expertise, and Skills 

• Robust interpersonal and diplomatic abilities.
• Demonstrated flexibility and capability to adapt to and function in environments of uncertainty.
• Robust understanding of present improvement points in Vietnam and organizational effectiveness.
• Wonderful written and verbal communication abilities in English and Vietnamese.
• Capacity to be proactive in problem-solving with wonderful listening abilities.
• Demonstrated capacity to advance fairness and inclusion in main the work of groups.
• Proficiency in Miradi can be helpful.
• Proficiency in GIS can be helpful.

Further Necessities 

• Legally licensed to work in Vietnam with no restrictions.
• Capacity to journey to the USAID/Vietnam Mission in Hanoi throughout regular enterprise hours.
• Capacity to take part in on-line conferences with IDEAL employees in Washington, DC, probably throughout night hours.
• Entry to dependable Web service.

Base Station

This place might be totally distant, with the expectation that the Marketing consultant will be capable of present frequent in-person assist to USAID/Vietnam (primarily based in Hanoi) and implementing companions.

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