Overview

Provide technical leadership and advisory services for project implementation and policy alignment in marine conservation and sustainable resource management.

Tasks Summary

• Provide thought leadership and authoritative technical guidance to stakeholders.
• Lead the integration of scientific and technical knowledge into program design.
• Forge linkages between project activities and relevant policy processes.
• Oversee collaboration with sub-national partners and co-financing agencies.
• Guide strategic communication and knowledge dissemination efforts.
• Provide technical oversight to community-level programming.
• Oversee the development of monitoring tools and ensure strategic use of data.
• Ensure compliance with environmental, gender, and social safeguard frameworks.
• Lead preparation and review of work plans, budgets, procurement strategies, and technical ToRs.
• Maintain intelligence on sub-national socioeconomic and environmental trends.
• Provide policy and technical advice to integrate LED strategies.
• Design and lead high-impact LED interventions.
• Supervise technical staff and consultants.
• Identify implementation bottlenecks and lead the development of risk mitigation strategies.
• Guide technical review of knowledge products, policy briefs, and publications.
• Lead identification and cultivation of partnerships.
• Represent the project in strategic forums and high-level technical discussions.
• Contribute to the development of funding proposals and strategic investment cases.
• Guide donor coordination, reporting, and relationship management.
• Lead capacity-building initiatives for project and partner staff.
• Drive knowledge capture from field implementation and translate insights into policy-relevant knowledge products.
• Foster horizontal learning and peer-to-peer exchange.
• Integrate project lessons into UNDP country-level programming and corporate reporting platforms.
• Develop and implement a personal learning and development strategy.
• Undertake additional strategic tasks as requested.

Experience Requirements

• A minimum of five (5) years (with master’s degree) or seven (7) years (with bachelor’s degree) of progressive experience in marine, natural resources management, blue economy related project is required.
• Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and web-based management systems, and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages.

Qualification Requirements

• Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent degree) in Marine Biodiversity Conservation, Marine Protected Area Management, and/or Sustainable Fisheries Management, or equivalent field is required, or
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the above fields in combination with additional 2 years of qualifying experience, will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Other Details

Languages Required: English and Tok Pisin

Languages Preferred:

Contract Duration: 1 Year with Possibility for extension

Work Modality:

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