Le PNUD recrute un Spécialiste technique, Partenariats, Kinshasa, RDC
Job Description
Background
Organizational Context
Central Africa is home to the second largest tropical rainforest in the world. Forest loss is accelerating despite ongoing efforts, as government action alone has not been sufficient to establish an effective balance between the interests of the forest and of economic development.
On this basis, a coalition of willing donors – Norway, European Union, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, and South Korea – together with Central African partner countries – Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, and the Republic of Gabon – have entered in 2015 into a collaborative partnership to establish in partnership with the United Nations, the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI). The objective of this initiative is to recognize and preserve the value of the forests in the region to mitigate climate change, reduce poverty, and contribute to sustainable development. This objective will be attained through the implementation of country-led, national scale REDD+ and Low Emissions Development (LED) investment frameworks that include policy reforms and measures to address the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation and promote sustainable development.
The CAFI Trust Fund is the principal means to implement the Central African Forest Initiative. It is administered by the MPTF-Office (http://mptf.undp.org/factsheet/fund/AFI00). As per the updated Fund Terms of Reference and the direct cost Secretariat project document, the UNDP Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (MPTFO) is hosting the CAFI Secretariat providing the secretariat administrative services under the oversight of the CAFI Executive Board and other participating UN organizations (UNDP, UNCDF, FAO, UN-Habitat, UNFPA, and UNEP).
The key objective of this position is to support the coordination of the programmatic and partnership engagement in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ensuring support to alliance building and governance bodies with government, development partners and non-state actors, framed around the renewed Letter of Intent signed with DRC for the period 2021-2031.
Under the supervision of the Chief, Policy Dialogue and Country Engagement, P5, the Technical Specialist, Partnerships will support the CAFI Executive Board and Secretariat in the planning, implementation and monitoring of the LOI (first signed for the period of 2016-2020, and renewed for the period 2021-2031) including the support to the related governance bodies via stakeholder engagements, support in policy development and dialogue, the monitoring of its implementation in collaboration with the programming team, anticipating and mitigating policy related risks to the partnership (such as breaches of the LOI) and organize the regular reviews with DRC partners.
Duties and Responsibilities
1. Contributes to the development, manages and implements CAFI`s country engagement process in DRC, including liaison and coordination with relevant officials internal and external to CAFI and in both strategic and tactical levels.
- Support and coordinate all stakeholder engagement efforts in DRC under with the supervision of the Chief, Policy Dialogue and Country Engagement, to determine and document opportunities for initiating a strategic dialogue.
- Facilitate dialogue and advocacy mechanisms, forums, south-south cooperation, political and technical exchanges.
- Design and deliver strategic investments and engagement opportunities with donors and DRC government partners to optimize programme efficiency.
- Develop, update and implement the CAFI strategy on stakeholder engagement/participation (DRC chapter).
- Prepare and coordinate stakeholder meetings such as preparing briefing notes/presentations, agendas and annotated agendas, compiling meeting documentation, preparing and coordinating correspondence, quality control of reproduction and distribution of documents, minutes and reports.
- Identify innovative opportunities to strengthen existing country and regionally led initiatives, platforms and mechanisms that support CAFI`s mandate and be forward leaning supporting complementarity of efforts.
- Identify and anticipate DRC policy related risks and proposes solutions to the Head of Secretariat and the Executive Board.
- Contribute to the DRC chapter of the CAFI`s programme risk management plan, including its mitigation actions.
- Establish indicators of monitoring and evaluation and information tools such as the stakeholder database and the stakeholder meetings preparations guidelines, in cooperation with the M&E Specialist.
- Coordinate country engagement with relevant multilateral initiatives (EITI, CBFP, COMIFAC etc.)
- Coordinate the preparation of generic and country-specific background material, as well as other inputs that are supportive of conducting the strategic dialogue.
- Maintain a system to track progress in strategic dialogues in DRC and document their outcomes for proper reporting.
2. Support the implementation of CAFI`s engagement process in DRC and oversee the policy dialogue of the LOI
- Identify key engagement areas, develops engagement plans (mapping of actors for different topics, identify how to engage them in the process) to maximize CAFI`s programme strategies and interventions.
- Collaborate within the technical and political outreach efforts with all stakeholders (line ministries, prime minister’s office, president’s office, CAFI Embassies, RCO, implementing organizations and non-state actors).
- Research and analysis of information to donors, preparation of substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation.
- Produce papers, policy briefs, and notes with strategic analysis and policy recommendations. Generates survey initiatives; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyses, interprets responses, identifies problems/issues and prepares conclusions.
- Supervise the work of the staff and consultants in charge of country specific policy dialogue in DRC.
- Develop texts of the agreements and identification of solutions to outstanding negotiating position between CAFI and DRC.
- Participate the development and operationalization of country level policy dialogue mechanism for inter-ministerial coordination and for dialogue with development partners and participate therein on behalf of CAFI
- Participate and represent CAFI in the different development partner coordination mechanisms (general and sectoral) in DRC to identify relevant points, issues and topics for CAFI’s consideration/action or for the consideration/action of the partner coordination group.
- Oversee the development of milestone monitoring matrices further to the existing LOI.
- Oversees the organization of the annual partnership reviews in-country and other ad hoc coordination meetings as required by national circumstances.
3. Support the executive management of the CAFI Secretariat and ensure liaison with other sub-teams within the CAFI Secretariat such as Operations, M&E, Programming, Communications
- Mobilize partnership engagement for strategic interventions such as Expressions of Interests, specific projects, Fast-Tracks, etc.
- Advise the CAFI communications team on defensive and proactive policy dialogue related communications.
- Oversee the development and presentation of policy dialogue related topics to the Executive Board during its meetings.
- Provide input and identify resource mobilization strategies and opportunities led by the Head of Secretariat and the Chief Policy Dialogue and Country Engagement.
- Advise programming team on policy support programs and vice versa obtains input from programmes for policy dialogue
- Other activities as necessary and within the scope of the job description.
Competencies
Core Competencies – UNDP Core Competencies can be found here.
- Achieve Results – LEVEL 3: Prioritize team workflow, mobilize resources, drive scalable results/strategic impact
- Think Innovatively – LEVEL 3: Easily navigate complexity, encourage/enable radical innovation, has foresight
- Learn Continuously – LEVEL 3: Create systems and processes that enable learning and development for all
- Adapt with Agility – LEVEL 3: Proactively initiate/lead organizational change, champion new systems/processes
- Act with Determination – LEVEL 3: Able to make difficult decisions in challenging situations, inspire confidence
- Engage and Partner – LEVEL 3: Construct strategic multi-partner alliances in high stake situations, foster co- creation
- Enable Diversity and Inclusion – LEVEL 3: Create ethical culture, identify/address barriers to inclusion
People Management Competencies – UNDP People Management Competencies can be found here.
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
- Business Management – Partnership Management: Ability to build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and private sector partners, experts and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies.
- 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 – Negotiation and Influence: Ability to reach an understanding, persuade others, resolve points of difference, gain advantage in the outcome of dialogue, negotiates mutually acceptable solutions through compromise and creates win-win situations.
- Partnership management -Strategic engagement: Ability to capture and sustain attention, interest and agreement of high-level, influential policy and decision makers and secure their buy-in of high-level vision and objectives
- 2030 Agenda: Planet -Nature, Climate and Energy: Climate and Forests: REDD+/UNFCCC and access to emission reduction results-based payments (GCF or carbon markets)
- 2030 Agenda: Planet – Nature, Climate and Energy: Climate and Forests: Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest
- 2030 Agenda: Planet – Nature, Climate and Energy: Climate Change Policies: UNFCCC Policy, planning and reporting
Required Skills and Experience
Advanced university degree (Masters) in Public Administration, International Relations, Economics, Social Sciences, Environment or any related field.
- At least 7 years of extensive work experience mobilizing policy dialogue and/or partnerships for environmental programmes in complex settings.
- Solid technical knowledge in climate and forest area in Central Africa.
- Strong theoretical and practical experience with the political dynamics of Central African countries.
- Experience of development aid coordination.
- Demonstrated experience in resource mobilization
- Field experience in stakeholder engagement in one of the CAFI countries is required.
- Experience with political engagement with government counterparts, in at least one CAFI country is required, in DRC is an advantage
- Experience in working with development partners.
- Experience with leading staff in international settings is required.
- Fluent proficiency in both English and French is required.