Overview
The role focuses on leading and facilitating multi-stakeholder collaboration and inclusive stakeholder engagement at national and subnational levels for the FOLUR Project. It involves providing input on strategic approaches to stakeholder engagement and executing engagement plans.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration and inclusive stakeholder engagement.
- Provide input to the National Project Manager on strategic approach to stakeholder engagement.
- Execute and implement multi-stakeholder collaboration and stakeholder engagement plan.
- Organize and facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration dialogues.
- Engage with private sector coalitions and other stakeholder groups.
- Represent the project on landscape and commodity-level platforms.
- Provide strategic guidance in developing clear messaging for project stakeholders.
- Strengthen partnerships with national, regional and international institutions.
- Increase cooperation with key national and subnational FOLUR related stakeholders.
- Visit project sites as and when required.
- Participate and co-lead on various relevant learning sessions.
- Effectively manage implementation of activities related to coffee, rice, cocoa and palm oil commodities.
- Support the implementation, coordination, engagement and monitoring of landscape level project activities.
- Support the National Project Manager with the implementation of relevant activities.
- Ensure that commodity related work at landscape level is carried out in close coordination with existing multistakeholder platforms.
- Work closely with respective partners in ensuring efficient implementation of landscape level activities.
- Report to the National Project Manager on activity progress.
- Support in the drafting of ToRs for related expert consultants, meetings and workshops.
- Identify critical issues, troubleshoot problems, and develop solutions.
- Support the National Project Manager in ensuring the effective monitoring of commodity related implementation work streams.
- Prepare high quality and result-oriented progress reports.
- Provide inputs and data for external project reports.
- Ensure compliance of the landscape level activities with the UNDP Social and Environmental safeguards.
- Provide technical advisory services in the development of technical guidance on grading for value additions of oil palm.
- Provide technical and strategic advisory support in the identification of priority locations and interventions.
- Leads in generating knowledge products such as best practices and lessons learnt.
- Coordinate, implement, and oversee Low-Value Grant Agreements (LVGAs).
- Coordinate the identification, assessment, and engagement of potential LVGA partners.
- Lead stakeholder consultations and outreach activities related to LVGA implementation.
- Undertake continuous monitoring of grant implementation progress and evaluate partner performance.
- Facilitate communication, learning networks, and knowledge exchange among all LVGA partners.
- Ensure strict compliance with UNDP requirements, environmental and social safeguards, as well as gender and social inclusion considerations.
- Consolidate lessons learned and good practices from LVGA-supported initiatives.
Required Experience
- Minimum 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience at the national or international level in the field of sustainable agriculture, environment and/or natural resource management, and climate change.
- Experience in writing reports, summarizing papers, and delivering presentations to international and national audiences.
- 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.
- At least 1 year of experience on sustainable coffee/ rice/ cocoa/ palm oil issues including on social and environmental issues at the global and national level.
- Experience in liaise, coordinate and work with NGOs, private sector and in particular, government entities; private sector and/or smallholders.
- Experience in organizing and facilitating multi-stakeholder meetings and workshops.
- Experience in implementation of projects that have components on sustainable development, green commodities, climate smart agriculture, environmental policy, environmental management, climate mitigation or project management.
- Experience in managing/coordinating development projects or providing technical expertise at UNDP and/or other UN agencies.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in Agriculture, Economics, Development Studies, Forestry, Social and Political Sciences, or related fields, is required or A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in Agriculture, Economics, Development Studies, Forestry, Social and Political Sciences, or related fields in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
