Job Description
The signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in 1997 was a serious 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 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 comparable to 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 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 undertaking (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 undertaking titled “Ecosystem Restoration and Resilient Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (ERRD-CHT)”. The undertaking focuses on enhancing resilient ecosystems, growth and governance within the CHT by constructing group and ecosystem resilience by way of varied growth and conservation outputs and actions. Support for resilient livelihoods and micro-enterprises will probably 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 growth companions.
The ERRD-CHT Project will produce outcomes on 4 interlinked ranges, strengthening the inhabitants’s potential to reinforce resilience, growth, and governance, impacting individuals’s lives and livelihoods. The predominant goal of ERRD-CHT undertaking is “to strengthen gender-responsive resilience and development through improved governance and ecosystems, and adaptive livelihoods with market access.” which will probably be achieved by way 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 atmosphere for self-reliant youth growth and management.
The undertaking will probably 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 instantly profit from the undertaking. It will embrace the intense city and rural poor and susceptible teams, together with girls and youth.
CHTWCA II is embedded beneath Ecosystem Restoration and Resilient Development within the Chittagong Hill Tracts (ERRD-CHT)”- a undertaking 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 way of an built-in ecosystem administration method of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). CHTWCA II Outcome is to strengthen native resilience by way of an built-in ecosystem administration method 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 Wildlife Biology Analyst will work beneath the direct supervision of the Chief Technical Specialist of CHTWCA, UNDP and can carefully cooperate and coordinate with the implementing companions and different companions and tasks, native authorities, communities, non-government, and civil society organizations.
The Wildlife Biology Analyst will lead the wildlife biology and conservation effort utilizing a scientific method within the CHT. The incumbent will present assist for the implementation of CHTWCA II funded by USAID. S/he’ll contribute to planning and implementing wildlife biology-related conservation actions and advocacy for focused stakeholders. S/he’ll combine the gender lens into the wildlife conservation mechanisms in CHTWCA II. S/he will probably be a key member of the Forest and NRM staff of the CHTWCA undertaking and can work beneath the direct supervision of the Chief Technical Specialist of the CHTWCA undertaking in shut collaboration with the Senior Management Teams of ERRD-CHT.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement undertaking work plans aligned with goals, monitor progress, put together studies, and put together undertaking exercise price range. Develop partnerships and collaborate with the forest-dependent communities and authorities, offering technical wildlife conservation and administration assist.
- Analyze insurance policies and legal guidelines associated to wildlife conservation with finest practices of species safety and conservation. Develop and implement wildlife conservation and administration plans by making certain compliance with environmental and social safeguards.
- Inform and capacitate undertaking on points associated to all wildlife commerce, wildlife farming, prohibitions on looking, possession, sale of endangered species and prohibitions on import and export of endangered species;
- Prepare species administration reporting, together with formulating species administration plans; worldwide profitable fashions in zoning and co-management of protected areas and elephant corridors;
- Develop the most effective worldwide fashions for establishing “critical habitats” for endangered species and regulating land use on which essential habitats are discovered.
- Integrate gender equality and social inclusion rules into undertaking actions, be certain that undertaking advantages attain marginalized teams, and promote gender equality.
Key Performance Indicator:
- Facilitates coaching and workshops with high quality coaching supplies growth on wildlife conservation and administration.
- Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN values and moral requirements. Displays cultural, gender, faith, race, nationality and age sensitivity and flexibility.
- Actively works in direction of persevering with private studying, acts on studying plan and applies newly acquired expertise.
- Ability to successfully coordinate with companions in and out of doors the UN organizations. Knowledge of UNDP Rules and Regulations is a bonus.
- Demonstrates wonderful interpersonal expertise and powerful management qualities;
- Focuses on outcome for the consumer and responds positively to suggestions. Demonstrates openness to vary and skill to handle complexities;
- Demonstrates robust oral and written communication expertise.
- 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 downside 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 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 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 goals, primarily based on the systemic evaluation of challenges, alternatives and potential dangers; hyperlink the overall imaginative and prescient to actuality on the bottom to create tangible focused options; be taught from a wide range of sources to anticipate and successfully reply to each present and future tendencies; display foresight.
- System pondering. Ability to make use of goal downside evaluation and judgement to know how interrelated parts coexist inside an general course of or system, and to contemplate how altering one component 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 trade information, data and concepts. Knowledge of instruments and approaches to stimulate lively participation, contribution, and trade.
Business Management
- Project Management. Ability to plan, manage, prioritize, and management sources, procedures, and protocols to realize particular objectives
- Communication. Communicate in a transparent, concise and unambiguous method each by way of written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and select communication strategies relying on the viewers. Ability to handle communications internally and externally, by way of media, social media and different acceptable channels
Partnership administration
- Relationship Management. Ability to have interaction with a variety of private and non-private companions, construct, maintain and/or strengthen working relations, belief and mutual understanding
- Advanced college diploma (grasp’s diploma or equal) in Conservation Biology, Wildlife, or Environmental Studies, 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 related work 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 are usually 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 wildlife conservation is required.
- Excellent pc ability on MS Excel, MS phrase and PowerPoint and good expertise on web shopping; pc typing expertise in each languages of English and Bangla.
- Extensive working expertise of engaged on community-based forest administration, wildlife participatory administration, biodiversity conservation, atmosphere administration, or built-in watershed administration;
- 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 International Development group is an added benefit.
- Demonstrated potential to supply good high quality briefs/studies in each English and Bangla;
- Experience of working within the CHT (or any comparable area) is an added benefit.
- Working Experience 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, 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 information in any of the CHT languages or Chittagonian dialects is fascinating.
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