Antecedentes
Strengthening Protected Area Network of Turkey: Catalyzing Sustainability of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas' project was designed to facilitate expansion of the national system of marine and coastal protected areas and improve its management effectiveness.
- Outcome 1: Responsible institutions have the capacities and internal structure needed for prioritizing the establishment of new MCPAs and for more effectively managing existing MCPAs;
- Outcome 2: MCPA financial planning and management systems are facilitating effective business planning, adequate levels of revenue generation and cost-effective management;
- Outcome 3: Inter-agency coordination mechanisms in place to regulate and manage economic activities within multiple use areas of the MCPAs.
Deberes y responsabilidades
For more details, please kindly refer to the ToR located here.
Competencias
- Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
- Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP, and partner organizations;
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
- Excellent research skills and proven record in research;
- Promotes team work, contributes towards building team consensus;
- Ability to work with diverse teams of academics, private sector representatives and other stakeholders;
- Builds strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback;
- Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
- Good teamwork and leadership skills;
- Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills both in Turkish and English;
- Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities;
- Remains calm, in control and good humored even under pressure;
- Good presentation and communication skills;
- Excellent writing and analytic skills;
- Familiarity with skills generation issues and international sources of information on sustainable development related issues;
- Development and Operational Effectiveness;
- Ability to assist in strategic planning, results-based management and reporting;
- Ability to support formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of research and data collection initiatives;
- Good ICT skills;
- Ability to provide support to the implementation of new research methods and facilitate team member engagement;
- Sound understanding of economic and business/entrepreneurship development situation in CIS countries;
- Good understanding of the challenges business face in transition countries and what role UNDP can play in facilitating pro-poor investments;
- In-depth knowledge of “pro-poor” business and their potential to contribute to development;
- Understanding of UN/UNDP role, values and priorities and of sustainable development aspects of partnerships with the private sector and investment promotion;
- Ability to understand and provide critical analysis of business models and communicate the results to clients.
Habilidades y experiencia requeridas
- University degree in relevant areas such as biodiversity, protected areas, environment, social sciences, environmental sciences and engineering;
- Higher education in biodiversity, protected areas management and environment will be an asset.
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience;
- Knowledge of UNDP and GEF environment/rules/procedures/requirements;
- Previous experience with results-based monitoring and evaluation methodologies;
- Technical knowledge in the targeted focal area(s) is an asset;
- Proven track record of application of results-based approaches to evaluation of projects focusing on protected area management/biodiversity (relevant experience in the CIS region or in Mediterranean and within UN system would be an asset);
- Familiarity with priorities and basic principles of protected area management or marine and coastal protected areas, relevant international best-practices;
- Knowledge of and recent experience in applying UNDP and GEF M&E policies and procedures is an asset.
Languages required:
- Fluent in both written and spoken English.