Area Coordination Associate

The venture “Addressing Climate Vulnerability in the Water Sector (ACWA) in the Marshall Islands)” carried out by the Government of the Republic of Marshall Islands (GoRMI) in collaboration with UNDP turned operational in January 2020 with the target to deal with anticipated impacts of local weather change on water safety on Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI).

RMI is a small island growing state within the Pacific. The nation is a large-ocean state, with a complete land space of solely 182 km², unfold throughout over 2 million km² of ocean. There are 24 inhabited atolls and islands, that are principally distant and lie merely 2 m above sea stage on common. There aren’t any rivers, streams or lakes in RMI and the variety of small floor ponds could be very restricted.

GoRMI, with the help of UNDP, has developed a venture on adaptation to local weather change impacts to water provide in RMI. The venture is co-financed by GoRMI and Green Climate Fund (GCF). The venture will construct resilience to the impacts of local weather change on water provide, significantly in 24 atolls and islands which might be extremely weak to drought. The venture will spend money on bettering water safety, water resilience and water governance by:

• Water Security – Improving family and neighborhood rainwater harvesting and storage buildings to extend resilience of water provide in 77 rural communities within the outer islands and atolls accounting for roughly 28% of RMI’s inhabitants, together with 7,630 (49%) girls, at present in danger.
• Water Resilience – Securing groundwater sources from contamination as a result of inundation attributable to wave overtopping of seawater.
• Water Governance – Strengthening the technical capacities of nationwide and subnational establishments and key stakeholders to built-in local weather change dangers into water governance processes in order that administration of local weather change dangers are coordinated, efficient, participatory, equitable, and sustained over the long run when dangers are anticipated to worsen.

  The venture aligns with GoRMI’s key local weather change insurance policies and techniques and has been developed by in depth session with authorities, Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), Community-Based Organisations
  (CBOs) and beneficiary communities. The proposed venture is aligned with RMI’s NDC and nation work programme to the GCF. The NDA has issued a letter of no-objection and the proposed venture is aligned with the work programme of the AE (UNDP) chosen by the NDA.

This GCF venture will probably be executed by UNDP, in shut partnership with the GoRMI, given UNDP’s in depth expertise in implementing local weather change adaptation tasks globally. The venture implementation will probably be led by a group based mostly in Majuro, RMI and Suva, Fiji.
 

Under the direct supervision of the Project Manager, the Area Coordination Associate will oversee the implementation of venture actions within the goal communities by working intently with the Field Engineers, Site Coordinators and Community Engagement Associates. The Project will function all outreach initiatives to the goal communities based mostly on the 4 Atoll and Island geographical areas which were designated based mostly on their geographical places.

The areas have been developed to consider boat and air transport logistics, cultural classification (i.e. Ralik / Ratak chains), and alternatives for adaptive administration (i.e. methods to shortly trial approaches after which regulate within the full- scale implementation). Reaching out and fascinating the 86 communities throughout the 24 atolls and islands of the 4 geographical areas requires substantial time, particularly in gentle of constraints and uncertainties of transportation – given its restricted frequency, reliability, and vulnerability to climate. Therefore, the venture actions within the 86 communities will probably be carried out by a phased method, particularly in relation to the construction-related investments for water safety and resilience.

Summary of Key Functions:

• Oversee the implementation of venture actions within the goal communities
• Co-ordination with Mayors, native and conventional leaders
• Supervision of web site coordinators on implementation works within the focused communities
• Progressive implementation web site reporting
• Support neighborhood and stakeholder consultations relative to ACWA venture

Oversee the implementation of venture actions

• oversee the implementation of venture actions within the goal atoll communities
• work intently with the Field Engineers, Site Coordinators and Community Engagement Associates
• Provision of basic workplace help reminiscent of response to advanced data requests and inquiries critiques, logs and routes incoming correspondence; institution of filling system and upkeep
  recordsdata/information; group of conferences, workshops; routine administrative duties, together with sustaining attendance information, assessing phone billing, and so forth.

Co-ordination works with necessary native stakeholders

• coordinate with Mayors, senators, GoRMI native leaderships and conventional leaders, reminiscent of Iroijlaplap, Iroij, Alap to make sure correct disclosing of venture implementation progress; in addition to get hold of consent for any further actions inside the focused websites.
• coordinate with Project Manager on dealing with of advanced/sophisticated points associated to conventional protocols and possibly permission from native management

Supervision of web site coordinators on implementation works

• supervision of the Site Coordinators within the designated implementation websites and areas. The Site Coordinators will work within the distant rural communities and the Area Coordination Associates will oversee their work.
• Implement venture customary working procedures consistent with the Government and UNDP laws

Reporting on progressive implementation

• Work intently with the Field Engineers to coordinate the infrastructure set up & building
• Compiles, summarizes, and presents fundamental data/knowledge on particular venture and associated matters or points

Support neighborhood and stakeholder consultations

• Support neighborhood and stakeholder consultations related to ACWA venture actions in shut coordination with Community Engagement Associates
• Participate within the trainings for the operations/ tasks workers

• Achieve Results: Level 1: Plans and displays personal work, pays consideration to particulars, delivers high quality work by deadline
• Think Innovatively: Level 1: Open to artistic concepts/identified dangers, is pragmatic drawback solver, makes enhancements 
• Learn Continuously: Level 1: Open minded and curious, shares data, learns from errors, asks for suggestions
• Adapt with Agility: Level 1: Adapts to vary, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is versatile 
• Act with Determination: Level 1: Shows drive and motivation, capable of ship calmly in face of adversity, assured
• Engage and Partner: Level 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding in the direction of others, varieties constructive relationships
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Level 1: Appreciate/respect variations, conscious of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:

Business Direction & Strategy    

• Strategic Thinking. Ability to develop efficient methods and prioritized plans consistent with UNDP’s targets, based mostly on the systemic evaluation of challenges, potential dangers and alternatives, linking the imaginative and prescient to actuality on the bottom, and creating tangible options. Ability to leverage studying from quite a lot of sources to anticipate and reply to future tendencies; to exhibit foresignt to be able to mannequin what future developments
  and potential methods ahead appear like for UNDP    
• System Thinking. Ability to make use of goal drawback evaluation and judgement to grasp how interrelated components coexist inside an general course of or system, and to think about how altering one factor can impression on different elements of the system    
• Effective Decision Making. Ability to take choices in a well timed and environment friendly method consistent with one’s authority, space of experience and sources    
• Negotiation and Influence. Ability to achieve an understanding, persuade others, resolve factors of distinction, acquire benefit within the final result of dialogue, negotiates mutually acceptable options by compromise and creates ‘win-win’ conditions    

Business Development    

• Collective Intelligence Design. Ability to bringing collectively various teams of individuals, knowledge, data or concepts, and expertise to design companies or options    
• UNDP Representation. Ability to symbolize UNDP and productively share UNDP data and actions; advocate for UNDP, its values, mission and work with numerous constituencies    

2030 Agenda: Planet    

• Nature, Climate and Energy. Water Governance: Integrated Water Resources Management    
• Nature, Climate and Energy. Climate Change Adaptation: Water Management