Forest Specialist
Accra
- Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
- Location: Accra
- Grade: Mid level - NO-C, National Professional Officer - Locally recruited position
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Occupational Groups:
- Environment
- Agriculture and Forestry
- Closing Date: Closed
Background
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide timely and quality information and technical advice to the Government of Ghana on planning and implementation of nature-based solutions focusing on forestry, green commodities and REDD+.
- Undertake relevant analyses and research, as required, and prepare knowledge materials to support UNDP’s forestry related initiatives, as well as other initiatives implemented by the Environment and Climate Cluster.
- Contribute to the preparation of necessary briefings and update for UNDP’s effective participation in important meetings, workshops and relevant events.
- Support UNDP’s efforts on advocacy and policy dialogue, including participation and contribution to policy driven researches and reviews.
- Advise UNDP on relevant national and international developments on forestry and assist in identifying coordinated approaches.
- Maintain close collaboration with the UNDP Climate and Forest Team and Green Commodities Programme to receive technical support as needed.
- Contribute to global learning and knowledge exchange by documenting and disseminating lessons learned from activities of the forest and land use portfolio and disseminate widely through on-line platforms. Reflect on experiences/lessons from the global policy network for possible adaptation/replication to the Ghanaian context.
- Enhance UNDP’s visibility and profile on forests and forestry.
- Explore new areas of cooperation and identify opportunities for new initiatives on forests in line with UNDP’s Strategic Plan (2018-2022), the United Nations Sustainable Development Partnership with Ghana (2018-2022), and UNDP’s Country Programme (2018-2022).
- Provide technical support to the formulation of project proposals on forests and land use.
- Strengthen partnerships with key stakeholders in the area of drivers of land use change, forests and integrated land use management.
- Participate and contribute to development partners’ engagements with government on land, forests and agriculture including meetings and events.
- Manage portfolio assigned to her/him in line with UNDP’s Programme and Operations Policies and Procedures.
- Provide technical support to projects in close collaboration with the relevant implementing partner/responsible
- party, ensuring implementation of coherent approaches across projects in the forest portfolio.
- Support top quality planning (annual, and quarterly work-plans), reporting, monitoring and evaluation of assigned portfolio.
- Effectively apply Result Based Management (RBM) tools, establishing management targets and monitoring achievement of results.
- Support production of aggregate reports on activities, outputs and outcomes, including reports for donors as needed.
- Support procurement of goods and services as needed.
Competencies
Core
Innovation
Ability to make new and useful ideas work.
Level 5: Creates new and relevant ideas and leads others to implement them.
Leadership
Ability to persuade others to follow
Level 5: Plans and acts transparently, actively works to remove barriers
People Management
Ability to improve performance and satisfaction.
Level 5: Models high professional standards and motivates excellence in others.
Communication
Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform
Level 5: Gains trust of peers, partners, clients by presenting complex concepts in practical terms to others
Delivery
Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement
Level 5: Critically assesses value and relevance of existing policy / practice and contributes to enhanced delivery of products, services, and innovative solutions.
Technical/Functional
Biodiversity and Eco[1]systems Management
Knowledge of conservation, sustainable use and access and benefit sharing of biodiversity, land, forests and oceans and the ability to apply to strategic and/or practical situations
Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for
innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise.
Forests and development
Knowledge of forestry and development and the ability to apply to strategic and/or practical situations.
Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area.
Green Economy / Green Commodities / Green Growth
Knowledge of Green Economy concept and green growth issues, including green commodities, supply chains and poverty.
Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area.
Sustainable development
Knowledge of sustainable development concepts, principles and issues and the ability to apply to strategic and/or practical situations, covering the economic, social and environmental dimensions.
Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area.
Project management
Ability to plan, organize, and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals.
Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise.
Result Based Management:
Ability to manage programmes and projects with a strategy aimed at improved performance and demonstrable results.
Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise.
Knowledge management
Ability to capture, develop, share and effectively use information and knowledge
Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise.
Partnerships
Ability to engage with other agencies, donors, and other development stakeholders and forge productive working relationships.
Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise.
Relationship management
Ability to engage and foster strategic partnerships with other parties, Inter-Agency.
Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise Coordination and forge productive working relationships.
Resource mobilization
Ability to identify and organize programmes and projects to implement solutions and generate resources (definition is unclear and not well linked to the stated competency)
Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise.
Required Skills and Experience
- At least five (5) years of professional experience in the formulation and implementation
- of forests related initiatives/projects.
- At least five (5) years of relevant progressively responsible experience supporting
- national processes on forests and sustainable development.
- Solid understanding of forests related issues at both the global (e.g. REDD+) and local
- (challenges, policy environment, key initiatives) levels.
- Experience preparing knowledge products and communications material is highly
- desirable.
- Experience working with UN/DP and/or other multilateral, bilateral, national or civil
- society actors on forests issues is an asset.
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