Project Management and Capacity Development Consultant job at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Vacancy title:
Project Management and Capacity Development Consultant

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO , Category: Social Services & Nonprofit ]

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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, April 07 2023 

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi, East Africa

Summary
Date Posted:Friday, April 07 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Duties and Responsibilities
The Swiss funded UN-REDD Africa Forestry Forum (AFF) partnership will contribute to improved REDD+ implementation and increased results-based payments in the African region, the overall goals of the project are to:
• Strengthen African countries’ REDD+ capacities and knowledge,
• Enhance sectoral policy coordination to guide appropriate REDD+ strategies and decision-making.

This position is home-based in Africa, under the supervision of Programme Management Officer UN-REDD Programme.
Working as part of the UN-REDD KM and Africa team and responding to partner country needs, outlined in the UN-REDD AFF prodoc, the project management and capacity development consultant will be responsible for facilitating a close coordination and collaboration with AFF as well as a timely delivery of the high-quality outputs expected from project implementation, such as knowledge exchanges, policy dialogues, trainings, communities of practice and advocacy side events. Furthermore, the consultant will support communicating success stories and lessons learned from UN-REDD’s African partner countries.

The consultant will perform the following tasks:
• Coordinate collaboration across three UN-REDD partner agencies, the project partner AFF and African governmental counterparts.
• Lead the implementation of the project following its concept note, work plan, and list of deliverables.
• Lead the contextualization of existing UN-REDD knowledge.
• Lead the production of new knowledge products to fill gaps in UN-REDD material.
• Lead the organization of Africa-specific webinars based on the REDD+ Academy.
• Lead the organization of Africa-specific training based on the REDD+ Academy.
• Lead the production of policy briefs.
• Lead the organization of advocacy side events at AMCEN and UNFCCC COP28
• Produce and promote stories on lessons learned from UN-REDD’s partner countries.
• Coordinate the work with UNEP’s digital transformation team to introduce innovative solutions to share knowledge in low bandwidth scenarios,
• Coordinate support from UNEP to the implementation of the project by partner organizations e.g., knowledge exchange, policy dialogue, community of practice, etc.

Qualifications/special skills
• A Master's Degree in social or environmental sciences is required. A bachelor's degree with an additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the master's degree.
• A minimum of seven years of relevant work experience in project management is required.
• A minimum of seven years of relevant work experience in capacity development is required.
• Experience working on REDD+ and/or Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use
• AFOLU) is desirable.
• Experience working with African governments is desirable.
• Experience working with international organizations is desirable

Skills:

• Strong, proven project management skills.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Ability to convene partners and facilitate consensus.
• Ability to coordinate a wide range of different outputs and partners.

Closing: 26 March 2023


Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education:
Associate Degree

Job application procedure
Interested and qualified? Go to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on careers.un.org to apply

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Job Info
Job Category: NGO - Non Government Organisations jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Friday, April 07 2023
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 25-03-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 25-03-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 25-03-2077
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