Project Manager, NPSA 9

The Government of Egypt has received support from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to advance the development of a National Adaptation Plan (NAP) with the goal of decreasing vulnerability to climate change. This NAP process will help Egypt build climate resilience by improving institutional and technical capacity for climate change adaptation (CCA) planning, examining climate risks, determining CCA priorities, integrating CCA into national and sectoral planning and budgeting, and increasing investment in adaptation actions.

This goal will be achieved via three interrelated outcomes, as follows:

1. 1. Strengthening institutional and human capacities to coordinate and manage climate change adaptation planning and implementation
   2. Developing an integrated national climate risk assessment and identifying adaptation priority areas for inclusion in a National Adaptation Plan Framework document; and
   3. Integrating adaptation priorities into national planning and budgeting processes.

The project will be implemented by UNDP under the Direct Implementation Modality in full cooperation with Ministry of Environment. UNDP seeks to recruit a full time Project Manager for the NAP Project. The Project Manager (PM) will be appointed by the project implementing partner and UNDP. The PM will be responsible for the overall management of the Project, including the mobilisation of all project inputs, supervision over project staff, consultants and sub-contractors. It is the PM’s primary responsibility to ensure that the project produces the results specified in the project document, to the required standard of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost. The PM will inform the Project Board and the Project Management Committee of any delays or difficulties as they arise during implementation so that appropriate support and corrective measures can be adopted.

Scope of Work 

    • Manage the overall conduct of the project to achieve its outcomes and ouptus, including managing the PMU, preparation of project work plans and budgets, implementing planned activities, monitoring progress of implementation plans such as gender action plan, stakeholder engagement plan, managing the project risks, capturing lessons learned, etc.
 
• Execute activities by managing personnel, goods and services, training and low-value grants, including drafting terms of reference and work specifications, superving procurement proceses and ensure compliance with UNDP rules and regulations, and overseeing all contractors’ work and ensure qualiy of technical products.

• Convene periodic meetings of the Project Board and Project Management Committee and preform regular progress reporting to the committees, including measures to address challenges and opportunities.

• Prepare a Project Inception Report, bi-annual progress reports to the GCF as well regular progress reports required by UNDP and the Ministry of Environment such as spot check, aduits, technical evaluations, etc.

• Manage project financial resources and accounting, monitor budgets, expenditures and cash position, plan for requesting GCF disbursements, to ensure the accuracy and reliability of financial reports.

• Ensure full engagement of concerned government entities and UN specialized agencies in the development of the NAP.
• Oversee SCALA project activities feeding into NAP project and coordinate with any other linked initiative.

Institutional Arrangement

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