Overview
The Technical Specialist will play a key role in the orientation, coordination, and communication of CAFI activities in DRC, acting as the national focal point for the secretariat to the government and implementing organizations.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the national focal point for the secretariat to the government and partner institutions.
- Drive and coordinate all stakeholder engagement efforts in DRC.
- Establish and maintain strategic engagement with relevant institutions.
- Facilitate dialogue and advocacy mechanisms.
- Support country engagement with relevant multilateral and regional initiatives.
- Participate in meetings with CAFI donors and partners.
- Prepare and coordinate background materials, briefing notes, agendas and meeting documentation.
- Proactively identify innovative opportunities to strengthen and create synergies between existing country and regionally led initiatives.
- Support the design of and delivery of strategic investments and engagement opportunities.
- Enable the development of standardised models for innovative financial support mechanisms.
- Synthesize and document lessons learned and best practices from CAFI programmes.
- Identify key engagement areas, and develop engagement plans.
- Collaborate within the technical and political outreach efforts with all stakeholders.
- Research and analysis of information to donors, preparation of substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation.
- Develop texts for partnerships agreements and identify solutions to resolve outstanding negotiating position.
- Participate and represent CAFI in the different development partner coordination mechanisms.
- Oversee the development of milestone monitoring matrices.
- Oversee the organization of the annual partnership reviews in-country and other ad hoc coordination meetings.
- Facilitate dialogue between the DRC government and the CAFI Secretariat.
- Enable and strengthen the policy dialogue between CAFI and the DRC government.
- Reviews and takes due diligence on the annual work planning and target setting for the CAFI DRC portfolio.
- Promote effective coordination and communication among CAFI supported programs and partners.
- Facilitate CAFI programming operations.
- Coordinate and participate in quality control mechanisms.
- Mobilize partnership engagement for strategic interventions.
- Advise and proactively support the CAFI communications team.
- Oversee the development and presentation of policy dialogue related topics for the CAFI Executive Board meetings.
- Contribute to resource mobilization efforts.
- Advise programming team on policy support programs and vice versa obtains input from programmes for policy dialogue.
- Identify policy-driven issues; and identify and synthesize best practices and lessons learned.
- Establish/strengthen national and international advocacy networks.
- Coordinate and ensure integrated support in development of policies and institutions.
- Support policy advisory services.
- Provide sound contributions to knowledge networks, communities of practice, and digital knowledge platforms.
- Organize and deliver training for the operations/ projects staff on programme related matters.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years (with Master´s degree) or 7 years (with Bachelor´s degree) of professional experience in the field of natural resource management, development economy and/or climate change policy in Central Africa is required.
- Demonstrated work experience in partnership agreements and programming modalities of the UN, the World Bank or other development cooperation institutions is required.
- Demonstrated direct experience with development assistance policies and procedures, including programmes in the sectors covered by CAFI’s mandate is required.
- Experience in working with senior-level development partners at a minimum head of country office level is desired.
- Proven experience with political engagement with government counterparts, at a minimum with DG level is desired.
- Proven experience in the management of complex multi-stakeholder processes and the engagement of various groups of stakeholders including constituencies from local communities, civil society, and private sector is desired.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Environment, Ecology, Forestry, Business Management, Law, Economy, or related field is required, or
- A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with additional 2 years of qualifying experience, will be given due consideration in lieu of Master’s degree.
