Job Description
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 growth 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 as a result of 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 mission (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 mission titled “Ecosystem Restoration and Resilient Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (ERRD-CHT)”. The mission focuses on enhancing resilient ecosystems, growth and governance within the CHT by constructing group and ecosystem resilience by numerous growth and conservation outputs and actions. Support for resilient livelihoods and micro-enterprises might be mixed whereas conserving ecosystems and biodiversity and enhancing native governance by empowering native communities, together with ladies and youth and marginalized sections, and establishments in partnerships with the Government of Bangladesh (GoB), counterparts, conventional leaders, and growth companions.
The ERRD-CHT Project will produce outcomes on 4 interlinked ranges, strengthening the inhabitants’s means to reinforce resilience, growth, and governance, impacting individuals’s lives and livelihoods. The principal goal of ERRD-CHT mission is “to strengthen gender-responsive resilience and development through improved governance and ecosystems, and adaptive livelihoods with market access.” which might be achieved by 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 ladies and ladies.
Output 4: Enabled atmosphere for self-reliant youth growth and management.
The mission might be applied in all 121 Unions of 26 Upazilas within the three Hill Districts of Rangamati, Khagrachari and Bandarban. In the CHT, almost 100,000 rural- and concrete households will immediately profit from the mission. It will embrace the acute city and rural poor and weak teams, together with ladies and youth.
CHTWCA II is embedded underneath Ecosystem Restoration and Resilient Development within the Chittagong Hill Tracts (ERRD-CHT)”- a mission 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 aim: Strengthened gender-responsive native resilience by an built-in ecosystem administration strategy of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). CHTWCA II Outcome is to strengthen native resilience by an built-in ecosystem administration strategy 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.
The incumbent will develop and implement methods associated to an built-in watershed administration of the CHT. S/he would be the lead pure assets governance knowledgeable in CHTWCA II and can contribute to the planning of actions and advocacy with focused stakeholders. S/he’ll combine gender lens into the watershed governance mechanisms in CHTWCA II. The incumbent will present help for the implementation of CHTWCA II funded by USAID.
The Watershed Management Analyst might be a key member of the Watershed administration crew of CHTWCA II mission and work underneath direct supervision of the Chief Technical Specialist and shut collaboration with the Senior Management Teams. The incumbent will lead Forest and watershed associated actions.
Key features:
- Project Implementation and Technical Leadership
- Provide technical experience on watershed administration and develop and implement complete watershed administration plans aligned with exercise targets.
- Document greatest practices, classes realized, and disseminate data. Support creating numerous pointers associated to mission implementation and capability growth of implementing companions.
- Develop detailed work plans, budgets, and timelines for mission actions and handle mission assets effectively and successfully.
- Integrate gender views into all mission actions and make sure that the mission advantages the marginalized and weak teams.
- Ensure compliance with environmental and social safeguards.
- Explore and implement progressive approaches to watershed administration by figuring out and mitigating potential dangers to mission implementation.
- Guide the mission in creating linkages between WASH, livelihoods, and monetary establishments to handle climate-induced vulnerabilities within the CHT.
- Develop and preserve robust relationships and strategic linkages with implementing and growth companions, authorities officers, companies, NGOs, different nationwide stakeholders, and beneficiaries to help key targets and guarantee inclusive implementation and participation of key stakeholders in assigned space of labor.
- Facilitate data and capability constructing, data sharing and advocacy related to the watershed administration.
The incumbent performs different duties inside their purposeful profile as deemed essential for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Key Performance Indicator:
- All enterprise processes are initiated well timed, completed in line with the plan and delivered assets following accepted annual work plans.
- Training and workshop facilitation expertise with high quality coaching supplies growth.
- # of Annual work plans applied effectively and successfully in coordination with the CHTWCA companions and key stakeholders.
- # of deliberate actions delivered with high quality and efficiency as per the MEL Plan.
- # of coaching and workshop facilitated for Implementing Partners (IPs) and mission workers.
- # printing supplies i.e. coaching modules, pointers, message growth and supplies ready and used for the mission.
- # of ordinary annual and quarterly reviews produced and submitted well timed.
- # of applicable coverage points recognized, and related coverage advocacy actions organized.
- Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN values and moral requirements.
- Displays cultural, gender, faith, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptableness.
- Shares data and expertise;
- Actively works in the direction of persevering with private studying, acts on studying plan and applies newly acquired expertise.
- Ability to successfully coordinate with companions in and outdoors the UN organizations;
- Knowledge of UNDP Rules and Regulations is a bonus.
- Demonstrates wonderful interpersonal expertise and robust management qualities;
- Focuses on outcome for the shopper and responds positively to suggestions;
- Consistently approaches work with vitality and a optimistic, constructive perspective;
- Achieve Results: Level 1: Plans and screens personal work, pays consideration to particulars, delivers high quality work by deadline
- Think Innovatively: Level 1: Open to inventive concepts/recognized dangers, is pragmatic downside 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 optimistic relationships
- Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Level 1: Appreciate/respect variations, conscious of unconscious bias, confront discrimination
Business Direction & Strategy
- Effective Decision Making. Take selections in a well timed and environment friendly method in step with one’s authority, space of experience and assets and consider potential wider implications.
Business Development
- Knowledge Generation. Ability to analysis data and to show it into helpful data, related for context, or aware of a acknowledged want. Ability to apply present ideas to new conditions, and to develop new ideas to generate workable options and new approaches. Knowledge of related ideas, conceptual fashions, and theories that may be helpful in addressing new conditions.
- Knowledge Facilitation. Ability to animate people and teams, internally and externally, and to design and facilitate actions, to share and change data, data and concepts. Knowledge of instruments and approaches to stimulate energetic participation, contribution, and change.
Business Management
- Partnership Management. Build and preserve partnerships with extensive networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and personal sector companions, specialists and others in step with UNDP technique and insurance policies
Partnership Management
- Emerging partnerships. Ability to interact with rising companions, develop and handle a technique and develop approaches to creating and managing these new strategic partnerships
2030 Agenda: People
- Gender. Gender Equality and Institutional Transformation
- Advanced college diploma (grasp’s diploma or equal) in Watershed Management, Environmental Studies or Management, Social Science or related self-discipline is required. Or
- First-level college diploma (bachelor’s diploma) within the areas talked about above, together with an extra two years of qualifying expertise, might be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma.
- Applicants with grasp’s diploma (or equal) in a related subject of examine 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 on the nationwide and/or worldwide stage within the areas of Natural Resources Management.
- Excellent laptop talent on MS Excel, MS phrase and PowerPoint and good expertise on web searching;
- Proven report of expertise of engaged on community-based forest administration, participatory NRM, Protected Area co-management, biodiversity conservation, atmosphere administration, or built-in watershed administration is desired.
- Relevant working expertise with GOB establishments, or worldwide NGOs is an added benefit.
- Demonstrated means to critically evaluate related technical supplies and suggest applicable measures to beat the problems is an asset.
- Experience of working within the CHT (or any comparable area) is an added benefit.
- Working Experience and understanding of Forestry, Natural Resources Management, local weather change results in Bangladesh is an asset.
- Experience in facilitating design for public providers, social innovation, and translating insights into options, within the context of local weather change is desired.
- Proven expertise in delivering strategic perception and evaluation on forestry and watershed administration related to growth sector; and a stable report of managing complicated and difficult partnerships with governments and worldwide companions is desired.
- Proven expertise and a very good understanding on the GOB insurance policies on forest administration, environmental administration, water useful resource administration and indigenous peoples in Bangladesh is an added benefit.
Required languages:
- Fluency in English and Bangla is required.
- Working data in any of the CHT languages or Chittagonian dialects is fascinating.
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