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Municipal Solid Waste Project Officer-NSPA 9

Beirut

  • Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
  • Location: Beirut
  • Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Environment
    • Biology and Chemistry
    • Civil Society and Local governance
    • Urban Development, planning and design
    • Project and Programme Management
    • Waste Management
  • Closing Date: Closed

Background
 
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
 
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
 

The Energy and Environment Programme is one of the main areas of focus in UNDP Lebanon; currently implements numerous projects in Lebanon that range in thematic areas from climate change, biodiversity conservation, institutional support, industrial depollution, decentralized renewable energy projects and solid waste management. The programme also works on the support of host-communities in response to the Syrian refugee crisis and is the Social and Environmental Safeguards focal point for the office; therefore, the team also ensures the integration of environmental best-practices into the overall implementation strategy of UNDP. 

As part of the 2017 UNDP Country Programme Document, solid waste management was flagged as one of the critical development areas where crisis and long-term development assistance overlap.  UNDP’s strategy in Lebanon focuses on several aspects of environmental governance including the effective management of solid waste and wastewater, the improvement and protection of water resources, and providing beneficiaries with access to clean energy sources at the central and decentralized levels. UNDP set the priority to support government to pursue medium to long-term strategies on integrated waste management, ensuring that environmental considerations are mainstreamed into the national crisis response as part of its priorities.  Since then, UNDP has been actively engaged at both policy and local implementation level in the sector.  Technical guidelines, a draft national integrated solid waste management strategy and assistance to the coordination of the solid waste sector within the larger Syria crisis response have been provided by UNDP.  Furthermore, municipal level projects and the design, construction and operation of larger waste facilities at the level of union of municipalities have been successfully implemented over the years in line with the overall development strategy response and as part of UNDP’s strategic support to host-communities within the Lebanon Crisis Response Plan (LCRP).

 

In 2017, the Annual Action Programme of the EU approved the TaDWIR Programme with the object “to enhance the capacity of the Beirut and the Governorate of Beirut and Mount Lebanon (BML) in waste management in order to alleviate tensions in the country related to health and environmental hazards hence preserving Lebanon’s stability”.  Since then, the scope of the original TaDWIR programme of the EU has changed considerably as a result of major events in the country. The geographical focus was widened to cover the entire national territory and a scoping study conducted by LDK, a leading European environment consulting firm, reported in March 2020, revisited the entire portfolio of waste management in Lebanon in order to re-orientate TaDWIR’s preferred results. These proposed results were:

 

1.   Improved policy and governance of the national waste sector

2.   Management solutions developed for special streams of waste

3.   More performant and resilient MSWM facilities

 

With regard to the second proposed result the scoping report used a broad baseline study and multicriteria analysis to conclude that TaDWIR’s priority shortlist should be on Hazardous Healthcare Waste (HCW), E-waste and Batteries.  The other evaluated waste streams (Chemical process waste, Oil and liquid fuel waste, Construction and demolition waste, Agricultural and Food preparation waste and End-of-life vehicles) did not make it to the proposed shortlist. The shift in focus was discussed extensively in 2021 between UNDP and the EU as well as with stakeholders also taking into account results of recent and ongoing studies on, for example, healthcare waste undertaken by UNDP within the current year (2021) as part of and in preparation for the larger TaDWIR project, slaughterhouse waste and cardboard and paper waste.  The EU and UNDP agreed to set the start date of the Action as 01 May 2021 and UNDP initiated the needed assessments and analysis needed to scope the project. It led to the integrating conclusion that TaDWIR’s overall objective should be:

 

 

To improve the overall environmental and financial sustainability of Lebanon’s waste management system by reducing volumes of waste that go to landfills, improving qualities of waste that go to waste-facilities in general and by introducing national systems for cost coverage of managing municipal solid waste.

 

Improving overall waste quality acknowledges the priority on hazardous HCW, E-waste and Batteries given that they are critical waste streams that currently are a major source of hazardous waste contamination to the municipal waste stream and that removing those from the mixed municipal waste would significantly, albeit not totally, reduce the level of toxicity of the remaining municipal waste.  This is also particularly important given that the LDK and other studies have concluded that reducing contamination levels in waste is very much needed in order to improve recyclability of municipal waste.

 

The Municipal Solid Waste Project Coordinator will be responsible for the implementation and coordination of all activities related to the municipal waste component of the project.

 
Duties and Responsibilities
 

Coordination Tasks

  • Manage the related component of the project activities and monitor progress of this component against the project workplan
  • Provide support for completion of assessments required by UNDP, spot checks and audits.
  • Manage the budgetary and financial aspects related to this component of the project including the monitoring of financial resources and accounting to ensure the accuracy and reliability of financial reports.
  • Monitor progress, watch for plan deviations and make course corrections in coordination with the Project Management and the UNDP Country Office team when needed within project board-agreed tolerances to achieve results.
  • Ensure that changes are controlled and problems addressed.
  • Prepare revisions to the multi-year workplan, as needed, as well as annual and quarterly plans if required for the related component of the project
  • Ensure that the indicators included in the project results framework for related component are monitored annually and all reporting submission deadlines to the EU are respected so that progress can be reported in a timely manner.
  • Support the Mid-term review and Terminal Evaluation process as well as any EU validation missions

Technical Project Tasks

  • Provide technical guidance and insight on national solid waste management issues related to the specific waste component of the project, particularly in relation to the policy recommendation and the development of technical and legal guidelines and recommendations
  • Deliver on the related waste streams targeted by the TaDWIR project based on international best practice and in close coordination with the project manager, the other project staff, the UNDP Country Office as well as the international and local experts.
  • Steer all national stakeholder consultation processes to draft and develop relevant waste guidelines and approaches in line with the project document..
  • Design the technical roadmap for the relevant waste stream in consultation with the project teams and national stakeholders while considering national priorities.
  • Liaise closely with national counterparts and ministries, including but not limited to the Ministry of Environment, Council for Development and Reconstruction, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities, local municipalities and others.
  • Coordinate the report on results, lessons learnt and replication options for the specific relevant waste stream
  • Present project results in workshops, webinars and public events to support awareness raising and capacity building.

 

- Competencies

Core

Achieve Results:

LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work

Think Innovatively:

LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking

Learn Continuously:

LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others, and support their learning

Adapt with Agility:

LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process

Act with Determination:

LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously

Engage and Partner:

LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making

People Management

 

UNDP People Management Competencies can be found in the dedicated site.

 

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

2030 Agenda: Planet

Nature, Climate and Energy

Chemicals and Waste: Ozone and climate-friendly technologies.

 

Finance

Budget Management

Ability to support budgetary aspects of work planning process, drawing and management of team budgets.

Business Direction & Strategy

Strategic Thinking

  • Ability to develop effective strategies and prioritized plans in line with UNDP’s objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, potential risks, and opportunities; linking the vision to reality on the ground, and creating tangible solutions;
  • Ability to leverage learning from a variety of sources to anticipate and respond to future trends; to demonstrate foresight in order to model what future developments and possible ways forward look like for UNDP.

Business Direction & Strategy

Effective Decision Making

Ability to take decisions in a timely and efficient manner in line with one’s authority, area of expertise and resources.

Business Direction & Strategy

Project management

Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and control resources, procedures, and protocols to achieve specific goals.

Business Direction & Strategy

Risk management

Ability to identify and organize action around mitigating and proactively managing risks

Business Direction & Strategy

Negotiation and influence

Ability to reach an understanding, persuade others, resolve points of difference, gain advantage in the outcome of dialogue, negotiate mutually acceptable solutions through compromise, and create win-win situations.

 

 
 
Required Skills and Experience
 
- Education:
 

Min. Academic Education

Master’s degree or Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, chemical engineering, environmental or agriculture science, environmental engineering or sciences, or other field.

 

 
 
- Experience:

Min. years of relevant Work experience

At least 2 years with Master’s Degree or 4 years with a Bachelor’s degree of progressive experience in municipal waste management.

Required  skills and competencies

  • Strong leadership;
  • Adaptability and flexibility;
  • Commitment and motivation;
  • Ethics and integrity;
  • Planning and organizing;
  • Professionalism;
  • Working in teams.

Desired additional skills and competencies

  • Knowledge and experience in the topics related to value chains, local development, and the environment are assets.
  • Previous experience with the UN or international donor-funded projects.

Required Language(s) (at working level)

Fluency in English and Arabic

Professional Certificates

Not Applicable.

 
 
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