Project Analyst-Wildlife Crime Control (Duty Station: Khagrachari, Bangladesh)

Project Analyst-Wildlife Crime Control (Duty Station: Khagrachari, Bangladesh)


  • Job Identification
    22117
  • Posting Date
    2024-11-13, 07:47 a.m.
  • Apply Before
    2024-11-27, 07:59 a.m.
  • Job Schedule
    Full time
  • Locations





    Bangladesh





  • Agency
    UNDP
  • Grade
    NPSA-8
  • Vacancy Type
    National Personnel Service Agreement
  • Practice Area
    Nature, Climate and Energy
  • Bureau
    Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
  • Contract Duration
    1 Year
  • Education & Work Experience
    Master’s Degree
  • Other Criteria
    Bachelor’s Degree together with extra 2 years of qualifying expertise can be given due consideration in lieu of Master’s Degreev
  • Required Languages
    English and Bangla
  • Desired Languages
    CHT languages or Chittagonian dialects
  • Vacancy Timeline
    2 Weeks
  • Mobility required/no mobility
    no mobility required

  • Job Description

    Background
     
    Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core rules at UNDP:  we worth range as an expression of the multiplicity of countries and cultures the place we function, we foster inclusion as a means of guaranteeing all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we guarantee fairness and equity in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ method to our range efforts means growing illustration of underserved populations. People who determine as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly inspired to apply. Learn extra about working at UNDP together with our values and inspiring stories.
     
    UNDP doesn’t tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any type of harassment, together with sexual harassment, and discrimination. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks. 

    The signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in 1997 was a significant political achievement, marking the top of a protracted low-intensity battle within the area. One of the important thing authorities methods outlined within the eighth Five-Year Plans is to completely implement the provisions of the Peace Accord.  The authorities additionally goals at implementing accelerated improvement actions within the area. Despite these good intentions, CHT nonetheless suffers from its distant location, numerous ethnic composition, and restricted infrastructure, impacting important providers resembling schooling, healthcare, and water entry. Despite commitments, the CHT establishments haven’t achieved their full potential due primarily to undefined roles and pending elections, hindering efficient service supply and regional governance. The distinctive biodiversity of the CHT, together with forests, wildlife habitats, and waterbodies, is in danger because of the diversion of forest land for inhabitants and settlement development, inappropriate agricultural practices, and local weather change.

    To proceed the momentum of profitable implementation of the Promotion of Development and Confidence Building in CHT challenge (2003–2016) and Strengthening Inclusive Development in CHT (SID-CHT 2017-2023), MoCHTA and UNDP, with help from some Development Partners, have undertaken a brand new challenge titled “Ecosystem Restoration and Resilient Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (ERRD-CHT)”. The challenge focuses on enhancing resilient ecosystems, improvement and governance within the CHT by constructing neighborhood and ecosystem resilience by means of numerous improvement and conservation outputs and actions. Support for resilient livelihoods and micro-enterprises can be mixed whereas conserving ecosystems and biodiversity and enhancing native governance by empowering native communities, together with girls and youth and marginalized sections, and establishments in partnerships with the Government of Bangladesh (GoB), counterparts, conventional leaders, and improvement companions.

    The ERRD-CHT Project will produce outcomes on 4 interlinked ranges, strengthening the inhabitants’s capacity to reinforce resilience, improvement, and governance, impacting individuals’s lives and livelihoods. The foremost goal of ERRD-CHT challenge is “to strengthen gender-responsive resilience and development through improved governance and ecosystems, and adaptive livelihoods with market access.” which can be achieved by means of the next 4 Outputs:

    Output 1: Improved and resilient forest ecosystems and livelihoods.
    Output 2: Enhanced capability and institutional constructing of the CHT establishments and strengthened democratic governance with elevated individuals’s participation, responsive communities and more practical service supply.
    Output 3: Inclusive and gender-responsive studying and empowerment amongst girls and ladies. 
    Output 4: Enabled surroundings for self-reliant youth improvement and management.

    The challenge can be applied in all 121 Unions of 26 Upazilas within the three Hill Districts of Rangamati, Khagrachari and Bandarban. In the CHT, practically 100,000 rural- and concrete households will immediately profit from the challenge. It will embrace the acute city and rural poor and weak teams, together with girls and youth.

    CHTWCA II is embedded underneath Ecosystem Restoration and Resilient Development within the Chittagong Hill Tracts (ERRD-CHT)”- a challenge of the MOCHTA. Chittagong Hill Tracts Watershed Co-Management Activity II (CHTWCA II), funded for 5 years by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is being applied within the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). USAID’s CHTWCA II is being applied with the objective: Strengthened gender-responsive native resilience by means of an built-in ecosystem administration method of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). CHTWCA II Outcome is to strengthen native resilience by means of an built-in ecosystem administration method that improves wildlife conservation and the governance of pure assets within the CHT. It has the next 4 Results (and 11 Interim Results):

    Result 1: Strengthened Ecosystem Governance
    Result 2: Resilient Livelihoods with Market Systems
    Result 3: Mitigated Threats to Biodiversity
    Result 4: Reduced Conflict amongst Communities for Ecosystem Conservation 
     

    Duties and Responsibilities

    The Project Analyst-Wildlife Crime Control will work underneath the direct supervision of the Chief Technical Specialist of the CHTWCA II underneath the ERRD-CHT challenge of UNDP. S/he’ll carefully cooperate and coordinate with the implementing associate, different companions and tasks, native authorities, communities, non-governmental organisations, and civil society organizations.

    The Project Analyst-Wildlife Crime Control can be essential in combating wildlife crime within the CHT. The incumbent will present assist  for the implementation of CHTWCA II funded by USAID.  S/he’ll acquire and analyze knowledge to evaluate tendencies and patterns associated to unlawful wildlife commerce and related actions. S/he’ll contribute to planning wildlife and habitat improvement actions and conservation advocacy with focused stakeholders. S/he can be a key member of the forest and watershed administration staff of the CHTWCA II and work underneath the direct supervision of the Chief Technical Specialist of the ERRD-CHT challenge and in shut collaboration with the Senior Management Teams. The incumbent will lead wildlife crime management and habitat conservation-related actions.

    Roles and Responsibilities:

    • Gather, analyze, and handle knowledge on wildlife crime, figuring out tendencies, patterns, and hotspots utilizing superior analytical instruments. Based on this info, develop actionable intelligence reviews for legislation enforcement and policymakers, monitoring prison networks by means of open-source and confidential intelligence.
    • Create and handle databases and techniques for wildlife crime intelligence sharing and help in formulating nationwide methods, insurance policies, and laws to fight wildlife crime.
    • Provide coaching and technical help to nationwide companies on wildlife crime evaluation, investigation strategies, and finest practices.
    • Develop reviews, publications, and coverage briefs on wildlife crime management and different related issues.
    • Enhance worldwide and nationwide cooperation by collaborating with related UN companies resembling UNODC, NGOs, and different stakeholders and taking part in related boards and conferences. Liaise with nationwide authorities and worldwide organizations to share info, intelligence, and finest practices in wildlife crime management.
    • Prepare detailed reviews and doc classes realized, contributing to publications on wildlife crime.

    The incumbent performs different duties inside their practical profile as deemed mandatory for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization.
    Key Performance Indicator:

    • Conducts utilized analysis on wildlife crime management and facilitates report writing, coaching and workshops with high quality supplies improvement;
    •  Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN values and moral requirements. Displays cultural, gender, faith, race, nationality and age sensitivity and flexibility.
    • Actively works in the direction of persevering with private studying, acts on studying plan and applies newly acquired abilities.
    • Ability to successfully coordinate with companions in and outdoors the UNDP;
    • Knowledge of related UNDP Rules and Regulations is a bonus.
    • Demonstrates wonderful interpersonal abilities and powerful management qualities;
    • Demonstrates openness to alter and skill to handle complexities;
    • Demonstrates sturdy oral and written communication abilities and responds positively to vital suggestions and differing factors of view.
       
    Competencies
    Core competencies:
    • 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 inventive concepts/recognized dangers, is pragmatic drawback solver, makes enhancements 
    • Learn Continuously: Level 1: Open minded and curious, shares information, learns from errors, asks for suggestions
    • Adapt with Agility: Level 1: Adapts to alter, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is versatile 
    • Act with Determination: Level 1: Shows drive and motivation, in a position to ship calmly in face of adversity, assured
    • Engage and Partner: Level 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding in the direction of others, types constructive relationships
    • Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Level 1: Appreciate/respect variations, conscious of unconscious bias, confront discrimination
       
    Cross Functional and technical Competencies:

    Business Direction and technique    

    • Strategic pondering. Develop efficient methods and prioritised plans in step with UNDP’s mission and goals, based mostly on the systemic evaluation of challenges, alternatives and potential dangers; hyperlink the final imaginative and prescient to actuality on the bottom to create tangible focused options; study from quite a lot of sources to anticipate and successfully reply to each present and future tendencies; reveal foresight.
    • System pondering. Ability to make use of goal drawback evaluation and judgement to grasp how interrelated parts coexist inside an total course of or system, and to think about how altering one aspect can affect on different components of the system

    Business Development     

    • Knowledge Facilitation. Ability to animate people and teams, internally and externally, and to design and facilitate actions, to share and change information, info and concepts. Knowledge of instruments and approaches to stimulate lively participation, contribution, and change.

    Business Management    

    • Project Management. Ability to plan, arrange, prioritize, and management assets, procedures, and protocols to realize particular objectives
    • Communication. Communicate clearly, concisely, and unambiguously by means of written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and select communication strategies relying on the viewers. Ability to handle communications internally and externally by means of media, social media, and different acceptable channels.

    Partnership administration

    • Relationship Management. Ability to interact with a variety of private and non-private companions, construct, maintain and/or strengthen working relations, belief and mutual understanding 
       
    Required Skills and Experience
     
    Education:
    • Advanced college diploma (grasp’s diploma or equal) in Criminology, Environmental or Wildlife Sciences, Law or Law Enforcement, Forestry or a associated discipline or different related topics is required, or
    • A primary-level college diploma (bachelor’s diploma) within the areas talked about above, together with a further two years of qualifying expertise can be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma.
    Experience:
    • Applicants with a Master’s diploma (or equal) in a related discipline of research aren’t required to have skilled work expertise. Applicants with a Bachelor’s diploma (or equal) are required to have a minimal of two (2) years of related skilled expertise in wildlife crime management is required.
    • Excellent pc abilities in MS Excel, MS phrase and PowerPoint and good expertise in web shopping; and good pc typing abilities in each languages of English and Bangla.
    • Experience in crime evaluation, legislation enforcement, or wildlife conservation, with a concentrate on wildlife crime.
    • Working Experience and understanding of Wildlife trafficking, Forestry, and Natural Resources Management in Bangladesh.
    • Proven expertise engaged on community-based forest administration, wildlife participatory administration, and biodiversity conservation.
    • An excellent understanding of the GOB insurance policies on forest and wildlife administration, environmental administration, and indigenous peoples in Bangladesh is an added benefit;
    • Relevant working expertise with GOB establishments, or worldwide Development organizations is an added benefit;
    • Demonstrated capacity to supply good high quality briefs/reviews in each English and Bangla;
    • Experience working within the CHT (or any comparable area) is an added benefit.
    • Proficiency in knowledge evaluation and intelligence software program.
    • Strong analytical and important pondering abilities.
    • Excellent communication and report-writing skills.
    • Knowledge of worldwide wildlife legal guidelines and conventions. 
    • Ability to ship strategic perception on wildlife administration, the Asian elephant hall, and difficult partnerships with governments and worldwide companions.
    • Strong coaching, facilitation & presentation abilities.
    • Ability to work with a multi-disciplinary staff.
    Required languages:
    • Fluency in English and Bangla is required. 
    • Working information in any of the CHT languages or Chittagonian dialects is fascinating.
       
    Disclaimer

     

     
    Under US immigration legislation, acceptance of a workers place with UNDP, a global group, might have vital implications for US Permanent Residents. UNDP advises candidates for all skilled stage posts that they have to relinquish their US Permanent Resident standing and settle for a G-4 visa, or have submitted a sound utility for US citizenship previous to graduation of employment. 

     
    UNDP shouldn’t be able to offer recommendation or help on making use of for US citizenship and due to this fact candidates are suggested to hunt the recommendation of competent immigration legal professionals relating to any functions.

     
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    Note: UNDP reserves the suitable to pick out a number of candidates from this emptiness announcement.  We may additionally retain functions and think about candidates making use of to this put up for different comparable positions with UNDP on the similar grade stage and with comparable job description, expertise and academic necessities.

     
    Non-discrimination

     
    UNDP has a zero-tolerance coverage in the direction of sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules.  

     
    UNDP is an equal alternative and inclusive employer that doesn’t discriminate based mostly on race, intercourse, gender id, faith, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, incapacity, being pregnant, age, language, social origin or different standing. 

     
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