Background

Pillar II focuses on strengthening capacities at local, regional and national level to manage and utilize natural resources in a sustainable way, and to enhance resilience and adaptive capacity to long-term climate change – including variability impacts and to reduce the associated risk of natural disasters. One of the components of the pillar II is to develop the “capacities to adapt to climate change and reduce disaster risk at the local, regional and national level”.

In this regard, UNDP formulated a project in consultation with the Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry and the Adaptation Fund. This project, underlying the present TOR, aims to address climate change risks on water resources and food security in the dry zone of Myanmar.

The principle objectives of this project are to:

• Respond to the climate-induced reduction of freshwater supply;
• Introduce climate-resilient food and livestock production systems;
• Improve the dissemination of climate risk information.

Duties and Responsibilities

• in close collaboration with the implementing partners, take the lead in Participatory Planning Exercises in selected villages, the preparation of technical Terms of Partnership for agreed upon interventions, provide guidance on planning issues related to the development of soil conservation and water harvesting and take overall responsibility for the preparation of community based sub-watershed management plans in the township;
• In close collaboration with the implementing partners, assess the current water resources availability status of project areas in Dry Zone area, monitor the progress and prepare analytical and critical reports including proposals for improvements in operation and the scope of programmes;
• Contribute technical assistance on planning issues related to the water resources availability, design, and management plans;
• Conduct policy dialogue with governments that may be deemed necessary to create the enabling environment for improved delivery of water supply services; develop sector policy and strategy in consultation with National Project Manager and Technical Advisors;
  
• Produce technical guidelines and support implementing partners on the formation of CBOs (i.e. Forest User Groups) that will ensure effective implementation of community based water resources scheme and water resources mapping programmes and build the capacity of local NGOs and CBOs in water resources management scheme;
• Liaise with technical departments and research institutions, studying ways of introducing applied research results and disseminate the results in the project area;
• Assist the implementing partners in the establishment of small scale irrigation and demonstrations in the project townships and the design of technical packages for implementation and provide technical guidance to soil conservation and water harvesting;
• Conduct technical trainings, prepare technical manuals in selected subject areas and disseminate information, education, communication materials (IEC) to target beneficiaries, NGOs and CBOs;
• Contribute to preparation of monitoring tools and evaluation design/plan for the participatory water resource scheme to design a network of environmentally, locally and technically relevant measures for programmes. Including supporting the analysis of monitoring information to assess process and progress against objectives, support learning and the identification of areas for modification and opportunities for further developments;
• Liaise with project implementing unit and undertake visits to monitor project outputs and benefits, provide technical assistance in order to ensure that progress is made in the achievement of project objectives;
• Collect, compile and analyze data from each of the project technical areas and support the project management in presenting recommendations to the Project manager/Steering Committee for improvements in implementation;
• Support the National Project Manager in preparing annual and quarterly work plans and budgets, drawing upon contributions from CBOs and NGOs;
• Support the National Project Manager in preparing monthly and quarterly monitoring reports and an end-of-assignment-report;
• Facilitate the timely and sequential provision of required technical inputs in support of Township Plans;
• Analyze township reports in terms of problems and actions needed and submit consolidated progress report to the National Project Manager;
• Provide overall assessment report of the available and potential water resources s status of project area in the first three months of the project period;
• Ensure a high standard of quality control is applied to the related activities;
• Undertake other duties as assigned by the National Project Manager.

Competencies

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism.

• Contributes to UNDP Practice Areas and actively works towards continuing personal learning and development;
• Builds knowledge in at least one practice areas, and shares;
• Ability to provide top quality policy advice services on related issues;
• In-depth practical knowledge of inter-disciplinary development issues.

• Ability to lead formulation of strategies and their implementation;
• Ability to negotiate with partners and internal units; ability to identify and analyse trends, opportunities and threats to the implementation of the project;
• Drafting and presentation skills;
• Ability to plan and organize work programme;
• Ability to work with minimum supervision;
• Ability to apply RM and partnerships building theory to the specific country context
• Strong IT skills.

• Focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to critical feedback;
• Encourages risk-taking in the pursuit of creativity and innovation;
• Leads teams effectively and shows conflict resolution skills;
• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
• Demonstrates oral and written communication skills with diverse culture and traditions;
• Builds strong relationships with clients and external actors.

Required Skills and Experience

• Excellent oral and written command of English and Myanmar language.

Remarks:

Candidates must apply on-line through UNDP job website together with duly filled and signed UN-P11 form, academic qualification certificates. Applications without these document will note be considered. P11 form can be downloaded here: http://sas.undp.org/documents/P11_Personal_history_form.docx