Project Officer

• Promote overall integration of the project into the country's activities, policies, and plans
• Prepare annual work plans with indicative scheduling of identified main outputs and activities as guidance documents for the formulation and review of annual work plans
• Provide guidance and reviews of technical specifications of project outputs and activities
• Supervise personnel and subcontractors engaged in delivering aspects of the project's work plans
• Organize and coordinate project activities such as workshops, studies and publications, subcontracts, equipment, and administrative support
• Encourage shared learning with national partners
• Provide secretariat service to the Project Board (PB) including coordinating the PB meetings, ensuring that all PB representatives receive relevant information ahead of meetings; presenting the Project's progress to the PB; taking notes during as well as circulating notes after the PB meetings
• Ensure close coordination between other relevant projects and programmes; both in-country and those led by the partners and other organizations
• Facilitate coordination and other support from consultants hired for the Project, and for any relevant missions directly related to the Project
• Ensure that the Urban LED Project produces the outcomes at the required standards and within the specified cost and time limits

• In consultation with the partners prepare TORs for consultants and comment on their reports
• Co-develop relevant policy briefs, lessons learned documents, communication materials, website updates, and other relevant publications
• Provide advice related to the GEF processes

• Carry out regular follow-up and monitoring of implementation activities
• Carry out regular monitoring and reporting on risk and mitigation measures
• Ensure timely preparation and submission of required reports, including technical and financial reports to relevant parties as well as bi-annual progress and expenditure reports, per the requirements of the donors
• Provide regular updates on the Project’s progress to key stakeholders according to the communication plan

• Coordinate wide dissemination and visibility of project achievements
• Coordinate dissemination of information and knowledge management within the team for effective project implementation
• Coordinate activities to ensure that project key results achieved, knowledge tools and products have been mainstreamed within the project field work, as well as within other relevant UNDP interventions and support their popularization and application beyond UNDP scope of work
• Coordinate the transfer of projects deliverables, documents, files, equipment, and materials to national beneficiaries
• Ensures gender is effectively mainstreamed throughout the project activities, work plans, budgets, reports, researches, analyses and, where specifically relevant, analyzed in detail
• Ensures knowledge on gender equality is incorporated in Project knowledge management activities and products

• Identifies and communicates relevant information for a variety of audiences for advocating UNDP’s mandate

• Assesses project performance to identify success factors and incorporates best practices into project work
• Researches linkages across programme activities to identify critical points of integration
• Monitors specific stages of projects implementation

• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders across a wide range of disciplines
• Ability to work with diverse partners and ensure coherence in activities
• Maintains an established network of contacts for general information sharing and to remain up to date on partnership related issues
• Analyzes and selects materials for strengthening strategic alliances with partners and stakeholders

• Generates new ideas and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things

• Analyzes information/databases on potential and actual donors

• Generates new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things

• Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principles of a professional discipline or technical specialty relating to the position
• Possesses basic knowledge of organizational policies and procedures relating to the position and applies them consistently in work tasks
• Strives to keep job knowledge up to date through self-directed study and other means of learning
• Demonstrates good knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments
• Demonstrates in-depth understanding and knowledge of the current guidelines and project management tools, and utilizes these regularly in work assignments

• Researches potential solutions to internal and external client needs and reports back in a timely, succinct and appropriate fashion
• Organizes and prioritizes work schedule to meet client needs and deadlines
• Responds to client needs promptly

• Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism
• Fulfills all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.
• Demonstrated excellence in clear, concise and convincing writing and communication skills
• Self-development, initiative-taking
• Highly organized with strong analytical and research skills
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a collaborative team
• Ability to identify areas of potential conflicts and take appropriate steps to deal with these.
• Promotes sharing of knowledge and experience, and actively works towards continued personal learning and development
• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
• Remains calm, in control and good humored even under pressure
• Informed and transparent decision making

• Master’s degree in environmental sciences, engineering, or related studies;
• BA degree with additional two years of experience may be accepted in lieu of MA

• At least three years with MA (or five years with BA) of professional experience in  project design, including demonstrated capacity to actively explore new, innovative implementation and financing mechanisms to achieve the project objective;
• Excellent understanding of environmental issues in BiH (waste, wastewater, emission to air and air pollution of the energy and industry sector);
• Experience in dealing with government, NGOs and Donors

• Fluency in English and languages of people of BiH

• Good understanding of post-war and post-socialist transition context, poverty, and local development support strategies

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