Head of Forest Sector Transformation Unit (FSTU)

The FSTU could have its personal Head with a excessive caliber of senior management. Governance is offered by the Ethiopian Forestry Development. The Head (of FSTU) will play a crucial function each in inner FSTU management, coordination of different RIP parts and exterior relations (in phrases of partnership and soliciting extra assets primarily based on the instructions from EFD). The best candidate ought to have a ardour for bettering the forestry sector in Ethiopia and a deep data of the Ethiopian forestry sector. Likewise, s/he’s anticipated to have excellent management, administration and communications abilities, and a capability to translate forestry coverage and techniques and different nationwide and world visions into actual and tangible progress. The Head can also be anticipated to be an impressive problem-solver and possess the power to construct belief with a broad vary of stakeholders, together with senior political leaders, EFD Directorates, donors, regional governments, FSTU employees and others. The Head can also be anticipated to report on to the UNDP Deputy Resident Representative (Programme), Director General of Ethiopian Forestry Development, and work intently with different stakeholders. The period of the contract is for one 12 months with potential extension. 

The Forest Sector Transformation Unit (FSTU) Head will coordinate RIP-II and different forestry tasks, lead useful resource mobilization, facilitate monitoring and communication actions, improve the capability of the forest sector to satisfy its mandate in any respect ranges. The FSTU Head will work with numerous non-state actors working within the forestry sector to share finest practices and discover alternatives for scaling up profitable forestry practices to tell coverage and choice makers.

UNDP adopts a portfolio method to accommodate altering enterprise wants and leverage linkages throughout interventions to realize its strategic objectives. Therefore, UNDP personnel are anticipated to work throughout items, features, groups, and tasks in multidisciplinary groups with a view to improve and allow horizontal collaboration. 

• Overseeing the implementation of FSTU actions acknowledged in RIP II and help implementation of different REDD+ Investment Program II parts and different forestry tasks in EFD;
• Setting high-level path, technique and method for the Forest Sector Transformation Unit;
• Providing substantive steerage and oversight to all advisors and specialists which might be recruited underneath FSTU and different totally different forestry tasks (as wanted by EFD);
• Serving as a strategic advisor to EFD senior management on points associated to the forestry scenario in Ethiopia;
• Oversee the recruitment of key employees of the FSTU and different forestry tasks;
• Building the technique, approaches and core processes of the FSTU and different forestry tasks;
• Familiarization of the FSTU’s mandates, partnership and administration preparations to varied stakeholders; 
• Provide total steerage and management to all forestry tasks in the direction of the attainment of the set objectives.

2) Manage core stakeholder relationships and lead useful resource mobilization

• Work intently with areas, the Climate-Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) Steering Committee and the CRGE Facility, improvement companions, and the personal sector to satisfy the mandate of FSTU and strengthen its function inside the forest sector;
• Monitoring of outcomes throughout forest sector initiatives and reporting of these outcomes to key stakeholders;
• Continuously participating key stakeholders (in authorities, areas, donor businesses, personal sector, NGOs and others) within the forestry sector;
• Organizing excessive degree engagements and dialogues within the forestry sector; 
• Lead the design and implementation of partnership constructing methods and data administration initiatives;
• Spearhead and help the preparation of challenge proposals to mobilize monetary useful resource from bilateral and multilateral businesses together with GCF; GEF sectors  to help the transformation of the forestry sector within the nation; 
•  Design technique and implement   to mobilize useful resource from Private Sector and Civil Society Organizations. 

• Advise and help the RIP II Component Coordination Units and different forestry tasks in implementation by means of monitoring of milestones and capability-building actions; 
• Building a portfolio of partnerships that may speed up achievement of Ethiopia’s forestry sector objectives contained within the nationwide insurance policies, plans and techniques and forestry associated world commitments;
• Providing steerage to all forestry tasks and initiatives; 
• Coordinate the preparation of annual work plans of RIP II and consolidate periodic progress reviews to be submitted to EFD, MoF and others as wanted;
• Organize joint monitoring missions and periodic program degree overview conferences;
• Prepare and disseminate communication supplies; 
• Identify potential funding sources, put together fundable tasks and repeatedly present info;
• Managing forest sector portfolio tasks and total efficiency and dangers; 
• Rendering help to the implementation of ongoing applications underneath the RIP II each on the federal and regional ranges, together with facilitating fund disbursement making certain the well timed switch of funds. 

• Maps related stakeholders, improvement companions and their potential contribution to future programming;
• Engages in coordination efforts associated to related donor and different stakeholders’ initiatives coping with forestry;
• Identifies alternatives and contributes to the general useful resource mobilization efforts according to precedence areas of EFD interventions; 
• Identifies and helps the conclusion of synergetic initiatives and/or contribution from numerous stakeholders, which might add worth and maximize the particular outcomes. 

• To pledge to nationwide and regional authorities, in collaboration with the EFD and companions, on the very best practices and experiences carried out within the framework of FSTU;
• To strengthen the nationwide and regional capacities in collaboration with the companions of EFD, by means of the mobilization of finest experience within the discipline of forestry;
• To share Forest Sector transformation Unit and total RIP II and different challenge’s outcomes and classes realized with different stakeholders within the forestry sector which might be implementing comparable programmes. 

Business Direction & Strategy: Strategic Thinking

• Ability to develop efficient methods and prioritized plans according to  UNDP’s goals, primarily based 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 varies  of sources to anticipate and reply to future developments; to exhibit foresight with a view to mannequin what future developments and potential methods ahead appear to be for UNDP.

Business Direction & Strategy

• System Thinking: Ability to make use of goal drawback evaluation and judgment to know how interrelated components coexist inside an total course of or system, and to think about how altering one factor can influence on different components of the system. 

Business Direction & Strategy

• Effective Decision Making: Ability to take choices in a well timed and environment friendly method according to ones authority, space of experience and assets.