Job Description
The signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in 1997 was a significant political achievement, marking the tip 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 totally 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, various ethnic composition, and restricted infrastructure, impacting important companies equivalent to training, 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 progress, 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, growth and governance within the CHT by constructing neighborhood and ecosystem resilience via varied growth and conservation outputs and actions. Support for resilient livelihoods and micro-enterprises will probably be mixed whereas conserving ecosystems and biodiversity and bettering 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 skill to boost resilience, growth, and governance, impacting individuals’s lives and livelihoods. The essential 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 will probably be achieved via 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 simpler service supply.
Output 3: Inclusive and gender-responsive studying and empowerment amongst ladies and women.
Output 4: Enabled surroundings for self-reliant youth growth and management.
The challenge will probably 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 city households will immediately profit from the challenge. It will embody 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 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 via an built-in ecosystem administration strategy of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). CHTWCA II Outcome is to strengthen native resilience via an built-in ecosystem administration strategy that improves wildlife conservation and the governance of pure sources 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 Wetlands and Forestry Analyst will probably be creating and implementing methods associated to an built-in forestry/wetland administration of the CHT. The incumbent will present help for the implementation of CHTWCA II funded by USAID. S/he would be the lead pure sources governance skilled in CHTWCA II, contributing to planning actions and advocacy with focused stakeholders. S/he’ll combine the gender lens into the governance mechanisms in CHTWCA II. S/he will probably be a key member of the Forest and NRM staff of ERRD-CHT challenge and work underneath the direct supervision of the Chief Technical Specialist of ERRD-CHT and shut collaboration with the Senior Management Teams.
Key capabilities:
- Provides technical experience and imparts coaching to stakeholders in forestry, wetland administration, and associated conservation fields. Conducts utilized analysis and evaluation to tell challenge design and implementation.
- Ensures challenge actions align with biodiversity conservation and sustainable forest administration targets.
- Captures and disseminates challenge classes realized and greatest practices. Builds capability of challenge workers and companions
- Monitors challenge progress and efficiency related to forest and wetland administration.
- Prepare quarterly and annual reviews for UNDP and USAID and conduct monitoring and analysis to evaluate impression.
- Collaborates with authorities businesses on forest and wetland coverage and planning.
- Complies with monetary guidelines and rules.
- The incumbent performs different duties inside their useful profile as deemed mandatory for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Measurable Outputs and Performance Indicators:
- Training and workshop facilitation expertise with high quality coaching supplies growth;
- Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN values and moral requirements;
- Displays cultural, gender, faith, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
- Ability to successfully coordinate with companions in and outdoors the UN organizations;
- Knowledge of UNDP and USAID Rules and Regulations is a bonus.
- Demonstrates wonderful interpersonal expertise and sturdy management qualities;
- Focuses on outcomes for the shopper and responds positively to suggestions;
- Demonstrates openness to vary and skill to handle complexities;
- Demonstrates sturdy oral and written communication expertise and responds positively to crucial suggestions and differing factors of view.
- 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 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, in a position to 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 and technical Competencies:
Business Direction and technique
- Strategic pondering. Develop efficient methods and prioritised plans according to UNDP’s mission and targets, primarily based 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 traits; display foresight.
- System pondering. Ability to make use of goal drawback evaluation and judgement to know how interrelated components coexist inside an general course of or system, and to contemplate how altering one ingredient can impression 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 trade data, info and concepts. Knowledge of instruments and approaches to stimulate lively participation, contribution, and trade.
Business Management
- Project Management. Ability to plan, set up, prioritize, and management sources, procedures, and protocols to realize particular objectives
- Communication. Communicate in a transparent, concise, and unambiguous method each via written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and select communication strategies relying on the viewers
Ability to handle communications internally and externally, via media, social media, and different acceptable channels
Partnership administration
- Relationship Management. Ability to interact with a variety of public and personal companions, construct, maintain and/or strengthen working relations, belief and mutual understanding
- Advanced college diploma (grasp’s diploma or equal) in Forestry, Aquatic Resource Management, Environmental Studies or Management, Social Science or different related subject from any acknowledged University is required, or
- A primary-level college diploma (bachelor’s diploma) within the areas talked about above, together with an extra two years of qualifying expertise will probably be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma.
- Applicants with a Master’s diploma (or equal) in a related subject of research usually are not 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 forestry or wetlands administration is required.
- Excellent laptop expertise on MS Excel, MS phrase and PowerPoint and good expertise in web shopping; laptop typing expertise in each languages of English and Bangla.
- A very good understanding on the GOB insurance policies on forest and wildlife administration, environmental administration, water useful resource administration and indigenous peoples in Bangladesh is an added benefit;
- Relevant working expertise with GOB establishments or worldwide Development group;
- Demonstrated skill to provide good high quality briefs/reviews in each English and Bangla;
- Experience working within the CHT (or any comparable area) is an added benefit.
- Proven report of expertise engaged on community-based forest administration, wildlife participatory administration, biodiversity conservation, surroundings administration, or built-in watershed administration;
- Working expertise and understanding of wildlife trafficking, Forestry, Natural Resources Management, local weather change results in Bangladesh.
- Ability to ship strategic perception and evaluation on forestry and wildlife administration, the Asian elephant hall; and difficult partnerships with governments and worldwide companions.
- Strong coaching, facilitation & presentation expertise.
- Ability to work with a multi-disciplinary staff.
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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