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GEF Project Specialist I
Specific tasks and responsibilities
- Project Design: Undertake desk research to inform the preparation of PIFs/concept notes.
- Review the draft proposal concepts/PIFs prepared by countries and provide input in all sections
- Verify PIFs/concept notes: grammar, spelling, presentation, etc. • Prepare Concept Approval Forms for assigned project proposals and support with the submission to the Concept Approval Group (CAG) for clearance.
- Upload PIFs/concept notes and responses to GEF Sec reviews on the GEF Portal Project Development:
- Prepare SSFAs / ToRs for Project Preparation Grants (PPGs).
- Ensure project developers have latest templates to prepare CEO Endorsement Requests (CEO ER). Undertake desk research to inform the preparation of CEO ER.
- Guide the countries in development of all the GEF and UNEP annexes, including the proposed institutional arrangement, budgets and workplans.
- Guide the countries on gender analysis, social, economic, and environmental screening, project taxonomy, and other GEF documentation required
- Verify CEO ER and annexes: grammar, spelling, presentation, etc.
- Upload CEO ER and responses to GEF Sec reviews on the GEF Portal.
- Review PPG expenditure reports. Project Implementation: Prepare PCAs / ICAs and appendices for recently CEO endorsed projects.
- Create project structures in IPMR and populate with project information.
- Track circulation of project internalizations and projects revisions through UNEP approval process.
- Review agendas, ToRs, presentations, etc., prepared by the Executing Agencies (EAs) for project inception workshops and steering committee meetings.
- Participate in project inception workshops and steering committee meetings.
- Coordinate with EAs on submission of reports as per requirements of the PCA / ICA.
- Ensure the EAs use right templates to meet reporting requirements and all sections are completed.
- Review the required GEF/UNEP reports submitted by the EAs.
- Upload the annual PIRs on the GEF Portal.
- Review budget and workplan revisions.
- Coordinate with other UNEP units / teams on projects, when applicable.
- File and archive project files / reports issued by the EAs into the CMU database.
- Update the MS Planner system to ensure timely circulation of reports, revisions and other documents.
- Upload project progress information in IPMR.
- Project Evaluations: Prepare TORs for MTR/TR/TE for completed projects.
- Provide guidance to the evaluators on UNEP templates for MTR/TR/TEs.
- Review and comment on Inception Reports prepared by evaluators.
- Review and comment on MTR/TR/TE reports prepared by evaluators
Qualifications/special skills
- Advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Economic, Environmental Policy, Law or in a related field.
- A first level degree with additional two (2) years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree;
- Two years of relevant professional work experience at the national level is required
- Experience working with national governments in project implementation is required.
- Experience in developing and/or implementing GEF projects is required.
- Experience in working with national governments in Africa on GEF projects is required.
- Experience in working with developing countries and/or international organizations is desirable
Tide Turners Consultant
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Under the supervision of the Chief of the Youth, Education & Advocacy Unit, the consultant will undertake the following work: Aim of the role 1) Assessment of Tide Turners Plastic Challenge: The consultant will undertake an assessment of what has been achieved through all phases of the programme, what has worked well and what could be improved to support the efficacy of the work, specifically noting the work around GEDSI (Gender, Equity, Disability and Social Inclusion) which is a key area for the programme to consider in future iterations with a set of recommendations for next steps for the initiative to consider.
- The work would include the following tasks: Assessment design: UNEP and DEFRA will confirm an evaluation framework for the consultant to implement, but the first step would be to discuss with key stakeholders the goals and outcomes needed for the assessment. This would be policies from both parties and a review panel set up that would engage with the consultant on the design and approach of the work before it is undertaken.
- Qualitative consultation: Designing a qualitative survey that would generate insights with 10 different individual entities on their views on the work and the results secured to date, likely to include: i) Tide Turners partners – WOSM, WAGGGS, Captain Planet, CEE and WWF India; ii) UNEP colleagues who have worked on the project; iii) Externals at entities such as DEFRA.
- Youth dialogue: Qualitative roundtable with up to four groups of 10 youth (diverse / from different geographies) to explore their experiences with tide turners and strengths / weaknesses.
- Quantitative questionnaire: Finalise and disseminate a questionnaire to partners to share with youth they have engaged with, to bring in reflections from up to 100 youth that would build on the Oxford University evaluation and would seek to supplement, not duplicate, the initiative. This should also consider the data contained in the India Tide Turners Portal which has insight as to the efficacy of the programme in terms of reach / impact.
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Qualifications/special skills
- An advanced university degree (Masters’ degree or equivalent) in communications, political science, environmental science or a related field that would be relevant to the task of evaluating programme quality and impact.
- A Bachelor’s university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. At least five years of progressively responsible experience in project or programme management, administration or related area
- Project design: A strong track record of designing projects that secure buy-in and generate results.
- (Essential) 2) Project management: Able to deliver highly complex projects of a global nature efficiently and effectively.
- (Essential) 3) Project evaluation: Able to conduct a comprehensive project evaluation.
- (Essential) 4) Writing: Strong writer of stories and proposals that support the agenda of the week
- (Essential). 5) Innovation: Ability to think creatively about how to evolve pre-existing programmes to have maximum impact.
- (Desirable). Excellent research, data analysis and survey design skills as well as experience working on multi-country programmes in an international context in inter-disciplinary teams
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