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GEF Project Design and Formulation Specialist

Job Posting: 11/Dec/2024

Closure Date: 25/Dec/2024, 10:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit : FREQG

Job Type: Non-staff alternatives

Type of Requisition : Consultant

Grade Level : N/A

Primary Location: Home-Based

Duration : 50 days

Post Number : N/A

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FAO’s dedication to environmental sustainability is integral to our strategic goals and operations.

Organizational Setting

FAO workplace in Equatorial Guinea helps the nation in selling sustainable forest administration, in guaranteeing that the nation advantages from social and financial dimensions of forestry and pure assets to carry the nation from poverty and meals insecurity. The nation workplace receives instant technical assist from FAO subregional workplace for Central Africa and from different FAO technical items of RAF and HQ.

As a observe up of the completion of a GEF challenge on Enhancing Equatorial Guinea’s institutional and technical capability within the agriculture, forestry and different land-use sector for enhanced transparency below the Paris Agreement and the advice of the nationwide validation workshop endorsed by the nationwide counterpart to hunt for a part 2 GEF challenge with technical assist of FAO, a world advisor GEF challenge design and formulation specialist will likely be recruited to assist the design, preparation and finalization of a GEF challenge doc part 2, together with related annexes required by the GEF earlier than submission.

Reporting Lines

The GEF Project Design and Formulation Specialist will work below the overall supervision of the FAO consultant in Equatorial Guinea and the direct technical supervision of the Forestry Officer for Central Africa primarily based in FAO Office for Central Africa in Libreville.

Technical Focus

Project design and administration, ecosystem restoration, environmental sciences, forestry, pure useful resource administration and associated discipline.

Tasks and obligations

The incumbent will carry out the next duties:

• Provide technical management to the general preparation course of that can result in the manufacturing of a full-sized GEF challenge doc part 2.
• Conduct consultations with key establishments and stakeholders (nationwide, sub-national, native) and make sure that related information and data are gathered and mirrored within the Prodoc to be produced.
• Review stories produced by the GEF challenge part 1 to collect related factors on facets for consideration within the part 2 challenge to be produced.
• Identify constraints and threats to biodiversity conservation and suggest actions to undertake by the challenge part 2 to deal with these constraints.
• Identify remaining constraints to the effectiveness of transparency within the AFOLU sector in Equatorial Guinea and suggest an motion plan to deal with these constraints.
• Collect and analyze related inputs, information, technical stories and baseline data accessible at nation degree or from scientific and technical publications for consideration within the formulation of the challenge part 2.
• Conduct gender evaluation, develop a Gender Action Plan (GAP) with particular entry factors for gender mainstreaming into challenge part 2 design to make sure that girls, males, youth and all related social teams can equally profit from the challenge interventions.
• Propose practical and efficient preparations to develop the capability to handle environmental and social due diligence processes and actions within the challenge for constructing and enhancing the capability of the establishments accountable for implementing the ESMF/ESMP.
• Perform in-depth local weather threat evaluation and present steerage on related actions to mitigate the local weather dangers recognized.
• Identify any adverse implications/dangers of the challenge to the communities and advise on mitigation options.
• Define interventions to deal with recognized data gaps together with the variety of beneficiaries for every intervention, assess prices for these interventions, and suggest their implementation technique.
• Identify remaining institutional capability gaps of the establishments concerned within the AFOLU sector to reply to the ETF, in step with nationwide priorities on mitigation and motion plan to deal with these gaps.
• Identify remaining technical capability gaps of nationwide establishments within the assortment, processing and evaluation of knowledge to tell sustainable forest administration and reply to transparency-related necessities within the AFOLU sector in Equatorial Guinea.
• Identify remaining technical capability gaps of nationwide establishments to evaluate and report on emissions and removals and alternate data at regional degree within the AFOLU sector.
• Identify remaining capability growth gaps of nationwide establishments on MRV linking with different reporting course of below the UNFCCC that embody the nationwide communication, the biennial replace report (BUR) for the AFOLU sector and REDD+ reporting.
• Estimate a practical finances to be allotted for well timed implementation of the ESMF/ ESMP within the challenge execution part
• Estimate a practical finances for all elements of the challenge part 2 to be allotted for its well timed implementation.
• Based on the above, produce an in depth FAO GEF Project Document for challenge part 2, together with all supportive recordsdata, and finalize the Prodoc after session and integration of inputs gathered from validation workshop to be organized and current the brand new part 2 challenge. egpwECn BIpnb
• Perform different associated duties, as required.

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimum Requirements

• University diploma in forestry, ecosystem restoration, environmental sciences, pure useful resource administration, challenge administration, environmental challenge design and administration and associated discipline with working expertise on this space.
• Minimum of 5 years of related expertise in in challenge design and formulation, ecosystem restoration and pure useful resource administration with sensible expertise of GEF challenge design and formulation.
• Working data of Spanish and English. Limited data French could be thought of as an asset,

FAO Core Competencies

• Results Focus
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Building Effective Relationships
• Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

Technical/Functional Skills

• Work expertise in multiple location or space of labor
• Extent and relevance of expertise in challenge design and formulation, ecosystem restoration, agriculture, forestry and different land-use dynamics with sensible expertise of GEF challenge design and formulation.
• Extent and relevance of expertise in offering technical assist and steerage to challenge workforce and in conduction discipline work to collect information and data for challenge formulation and in organizing technical workshops.
• Extent and relevance of expertise in communication, analytical, and writing abilities in English and Spanish.

Please notice that each one candidates ought to adhere to FAO Values of Commitment to FAO, Respect for All and Integrity and Transparency

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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