Overview
Provide technical leadership and advisory services for project implementation and policy alignment in marine conservation, natural resources management, and blue economy initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- 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 policy processes.
- Oversee collaboration with sub-national partners and co-financing agencies.
- Guide strategic communication and knowledge dissemination.
- Provide technical oversight to community-level programming.
- Oversee the development of monitoring tools and 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 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.
Required Experience
- 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.
- Experience working with local governments
- Experience in project monitoring and evaluation
- Experience in reporting
- Experience in coordinating and supervising multiple parties in their implementation of technical activities in partnership with a variety of stakeholder groups, including government, civil society, private sector, academic and research institutes, the broader donor community, and local beneficiaries
- Experience in community-level finance
- Experience working with civil society and/or private sector
- Experience in Knowledge sharing and capacity building
- Working experience in an international organization
Qualifications
- 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
