Senior Climate Change Projects Coordinator

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Project Officer to join our team. The successful candidate will play a critical role in executing projects, coordinating with donors and implementing partners, and ensuring effective implementation of project objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Lead the coordination of project activities with technical expert groups and various international institutions to facilitate the effective implementation of project objectives under the enhanced transparency framework of the Paris Agreement and UNFCCC convention.
2. Contribute to business development activities of the project and ensure alignment with global objectives on climate action.
3. Responsible for the project financial and operational performance and ensure project activities are within assigned budgets.
4. Develop comprehensive project work plans and articulate detailed terms of reference for project consultants to guide project implementation.
5. Foster collaboration with relevant ministries, national research institutes, NGOs, and other stakeholders to enhance project impact and ensure integration of diverse perspectives into project activities.
6. Prepare and deliver high-quality periodic progress reports on project implementation to facilitate transparent communication and accountability.
7. Effectively manage project expenditures in adherence to GEF budgetary standards and guidelines.
8. Conduct thorough reviews of all project-generated materials to ensure alignment with best practices and standards for transparency and reporting.
9. Provide leadership in organizing national project workshops and training sessions to foster knowledge exchange and capacity building among stakeholders nationwide.
10. Oversee and ensure the rigorous accountability of project funds through annual audits.

Competencies Required

The ideal candidate will possess the following competencies:

• Achieve Results: Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact.
• Think Innovatively: Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems.
• Learn Continuously: Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences.
• Adapt with Agility: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands.
• Act with Determination: Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results.
• Engage and Partner: Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration.
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity.
• Business Direction & Strategy: System Thinking - Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system.
• Business Management: Project Management - Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals.
• Business Management: Partnerships Management - Ability to build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and private sector partners.
• Communication: Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication.

Required Skills and Experience

• Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in social sciences, including Finance/Management/Climate change, or alternately, a Bachelor's degree in the areas mentioned is acceptable with additional two years of relevant work experience.
• Applicants with a Master's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field of study are required to have seven (07) years of relevant professional experience working with UN Agencies, government, development organizations or Ministries. Alternately, applicants with a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of nine (09) years of relevant professional experience in the field above.
• Proficiency in standard software applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc. is required.
• Proven analytical and writing skills are required.

Disclaimer

UNDP has a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority.

UNDP is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer that does not discriminate based on race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.