Antecedentes

• National REDD+ Readiness Management arrangements and stakeholder consultation;
• National capacity-building towards development of the REDD+ strategy and implementation framework;
• Sub-National REDD+ capacity-building and demonstration;
• Support to development of the Monitoring system.

Deberes y responsabilidades

• Provide management advice and coaching to the REDD+ Taskforce and Secretariat for effective implementation of UN-REDD programme;
• Provide technical advisory input and oversight;
• Develop and strengthen Partnership and coordination with UN Agencies, Government and Donors to support the implementation of UN-REDD programme;
• Facilitate knowledge building activities among stakeholders.

• Provide guidance on formulation and implementation of Annual and Quarterly workplans; and provide quality assurance on the Annual and Quarterly reports before submitting to UN agencies;
• Provide close and regular backstopping to the Secretariat Chief and senior members of the UN-REDD Team and other implementing entities for the implementation of various components of the UN-REDD programme;
• Provide advice to the Secretariat Chief and other members of the UN-REDD Team in coordinating and supervising activities of national and international experts and consultants to secure timely production of planned outputs and the review of these outputs;
• Advise the Secretariat Chief, Deputy and National Programme Director to coordinate and liaise with stakeholders – including line ministries, development partners, civil society, indigenous peoples and the private sector;
• Provide advice and inputs in the identification of technical expertise and preparation of Term of References (TORs), identification and evaluation of experts, and reviewing reports produced;
• Provide advisory support to the REDD+ Taskforce to strengthen the communications with its members;
• Provide mentoring and coaching to taskforce secretariat members on project management, oversight, coordination, planning and reporting.

• Provide strategic guidance to ensure that UN-REDD programme outcomes are fully achieved;
• Review of relevant policies and development of policy frameworks as well as the institutional arrangements for REDD+ development;
• Organisation of and substantive contributions to high level policy dialogues on development of a National REDD+ Programme;
• Provide guidance on the development of policy options and strategies for the design and implementation of Cambodia's National REDD+ Programme to the RGC and other development actors including support on the development of: Benefit distribution mechanisms; A national registry; Conflict resolution mechanisms; Other elements of National REDD+ development;
• Provide timely quality information and technical advice to the RGC, UN Country Team, implementing partners, line ministries and other partners to ensure effective development and delivery of the UN-REDD national joint programme;
• Develop concept note and TORs for each technical output.

• Ensure coordination with other REDD+ initiatives, in particular the Cambodia-REDD (CAM-REDD);
• Ensure communication between different government agencies, national and international initiatives and stakeholders;
• Provide advice to REDD+ taskforce on UNFCCC negotiations relating to REDD+;
• Provide strategic guidance to strengthen coordination and communication of relevant stakeholders;
• Coordinate institutional capacity assessments of relevant national, provincial and local entities along the REDD+ supply chain.

• Share knowledge on REDD+ by documenting lessons learnt and best practices from the UN-REDD programme and contributing to the development of knowledge based tools (including policies, strategies, guidelines, etc.);
• Support the development of communications strategies of UN-REDD programme and provide technical guidance to implement the communications strategies.

• REDD+ become a key development priority;
• High visibility of the UN-REDD programme;
• Partnership and relationship of key stakeholders on REDD+ built and enhanced;
• REDD+ Programme outcome are fully achieved resulting in transformative change;
• Built strong bases for the sustainability of the REDD+ programme;
• Effective coordination of stakeholders on REDD+ and related issues;
• The REDD+ Secretariat is functioning effectively;
• Information gained from the development and implementation of the UN-REDD and National REDD+ Programme in Cambodia is shared at both the country and international levels;
• Right perception of society on the benefit of REDD+;
• Enhanced capacity within Cambodia to further develop and implement a national approach to REDD+.

Competencias

• Promoting Ethics and Integrity / Creating Organizational Precedents;
• Building support and political acumen;
• Building staff competence,  Creating an environment of creativity and innovation;
• Building and promoting effective teams;
• Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication;
• Creating an emotionally intelligent organization;
• Leveraging conflict in the interests of UNDP & setting standards;
• Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning;
• Fair and transparent  decision making; calculated risk-taking.

• Creates effective advocacy strategies;
• Contributes to the elaboration of advocacy strategies by identifying and prioritizing audiences and communication means;
• Performs analysis of political situations and scenarios, and contributes to the formulation of institutional responses;
• Uses the opportunity to bring forward and disseminate materials for advocacy work.

• Effectively networks with partners seizing opportunities to build strategic alliances relevant to UNDP’s mandate and strategic agenda;
• Sensitizes UN Partners, donors and other international organizations to the UNDP’s strategic agenda, identifying areas for joint efforts;
• Develops positive ties with civil society to build/strengthen UNDP’s mandate;
• Identifies needs and interventions for capacity building of counterparts, clients and potential partners;
• Displays initiative, sets challenging outputs for him/herself and willingly accepts new work assignments;
• Takes responsibility for achieving agreed outputs within set deadlines and strives until successful outputs are achieved;
• Promotes UNDP’s agenda in inter-agency meetings.

• Makes the case for innovative ideas documenting successes and building them into the design of new approaches;
• Identifies new approaches and strategies that promote the use of tools and mechanisms;
• Develops and/or participates in the development of tools and mechanisms, including identifying new approaches to promote individual and organizational learning and knowledge sharing using formal and informal methodologies.

• Understands more advanced aspects of primary area of specialization as well as the fundamental concepts of related disciplines;
• Serves as internal consultant in the area of expertise and shares knowledge with staff;
• Continues to seeks new and improved methods and systems for accomplishing the work of the unit;
• Keeps abreast of new developments in area of professional discipline and job knowledge and seeks to develop him/herself professionally;
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments;
• Demonstrates comprehensive understanding and knowledge of the current guidelines and project management tools and utilizes these regularly in work assignments.

• Leverages different experiences and expertise of team members to achieve better and more innovative outcomes;
• Leverages multi disciplinary, institutional knowledge and experience of other countries and regions to promote UNDP’s development agenda;
• Develops innovative and creative approaches to meet programme and capacity development objectives;
• Participates in dialogue about conceptual innovation at the country and regional levels.

• Creates effective global advocacy messages/strategies;
• Contributes to the elaboration of a global advocacy strategy by identifying and prioritizing audiences and messages;
• Performed analysis of political situations and scenarios, and contributes to the formulation of institutional responses;
• Uses the opportunity to bring forward and disseminate materials for global advocacy work and adapts it for use at country level.

• Leverages different experiences and expertise of team members to achieve better and more innovative outcomes;
• Leverages multi disciplinary, institutional knowledge and experience of other countries and regions to promote; UNDP’s development agenda;
• Develops innovative and creative approaches to meet programme and capacity development objectives;
• Participates in dialogue about conceptual innovation at the country and regional levels.

• Anticipates client needs;
• Works towards creating an enabling environment for a smooth relationship between the clients and service provider;
• Demonstrates understanding of client’s perspective;
• Keeps the client informed of problems or delays in the provision of services;
• Uses discretion and flexibility in interpreting rules in order to meet client needs and achieve organizational goals more effectively;
• Solicits feedback on service provision and quality.

Habilidades y experiencia requeridas

• Master degree in Environmental Science, Natural Resource Management, Environmental Economics, or similar.

• At least 7 years of relevant working experience on REDD+, conservation, resource management, forest economic policy and community development livelihoods;
• Prior experience with development project/programme in Cambodia or South East Asia is highly desirable
• Strong facilitation and coordination skill would be an asset;
• Experience of working in multinational teams to implement programmes involving different funding and implementing agencies would be an asset;
• Experience of implementing programmes across the UN agencies and across Government are definite advantages;
• Experience the REDD+ developments at international, national and local levels would be an asset;
• Knowledge on the UNFCCC negotiations, decisions and guidelines for national systems in the context of REDD+, as well as national and international best practices within REDD+ and other natural resource management initiatives would be a strong asset.

• Proficiency in both spoken and written English; 
• Some competency in spoken Khmer is preferable.