Background
UNDP’s offer on Green Development in Sri Lanka is to support and encourage stewardship and innovation on green development, raise awareness on related sectors, influence the policy-making sphere for green-centric transformations, prioritize and support the operationalizing of a green recovery and affirm the country’s green commitments, and create a platform to convene stakeholders, decision-makers, and development practitioners to share and build knowledge. In this backdrop, it is required to strengthen CCS to work with Presidential Task force for the Creation of a Green Sri Lanka with Sustainable Solution for Climate Change and overall coordination is required on greener development initiatives. As such, UNDP needs to place a Project Coordinator, guided by the Technical Coordinator-CET of UNDP and Director, CCS, CCS in support of the day- to-day implementation, management and coordination of Programme activities on Green Development and to ensure effective planning and monitoring of the Programme to achieve stated outcomes and outputs in accordance with UNDP/Government of Sri Lanka Guidelines for Nationally Implemented Programmes and UNDP’s Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP).
Duties and Responsibilities
Position Purpose
To support the Ministry of Environment to implement Green Development Agenda in coordination with Presidential Task Force (PTF) for creation of a Green Sri Lanka with sustainable solutions for climate change.
Key Duties and Accountabilities | |
1. Planning, implementation and management of Programme activities. | Supporting the Addl. Secretary (Environment Development), the Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force and the team on planning and implementation of Green Development Agenda (GDA)
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2. Office Management and Coordination among Technical Assistance Team | Providing day-to-day coordination support to the Coordinator of PTF on Green Development and the team to deliver recommendations of Presidential Task Force
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3. Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting | Facilitate project monitoring, evaluation and periodic reporting
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4. Administration Support | Providing Administration Support for the identified/ assigned tasks of Ministry of Environment under the supervision of Addl. Secretary (Environment Development}
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Competencies
Core Competencies | |||||||||||
Achieve Results:
| LEVEL 4: Prioritize team workflow, mobilize resources, drive scalable results/strategic impact | ||||||||||
Think Innovatively:
| LEVEL 4: Easily navigate complexity, encourage/enable radical innovation, has foresight | ||||||||||
Learn Continuously
| LEVEL 4: Create systems and processes that enable learning and development for all | ||||||||||
Adapt with Agility
| LEVEL 4: Proactively initiate/lead organizational change, champion new systems/processes | ||||||||||
Act with Determination | LEVEL 4: Able to make difficult decisions in challenging situations, inspire confidence | ||||||||||
Engage and Partner
| LEVEL 4: Construct strategic multi-partner alliances in high stake situations, foster co-creation | ||||||||||
Enable Diversity and Inclusion
| LEVEL 4: Create ethical culture, identify/address barriers to inclusion | ||||||||||
People Management UNDP People Management Competencies can be found in the dedicated site. Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
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Keywords
Most important skills from competencies required for the position:
- Communication and Relationship Management
- Innovation
- Achieve results
Required Skills and Experience
Education
- Secondary Education (GCE A/L) OR Bachelor’s Degree in the areas of Development Studies, Rural Development, Climate Change, Environment Management, Disaster Management, Project Management, Business Administration, Development Studies, Agriculture or related field.
Experience, Knowledge, and Skills
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• Secondary Education (GCE A/L) with 6 years or bachelor’s with 3 years of progressive years of experience in the field of Climate Change Adaptation, Rural Development, Natural Resources Management, Agriculture, including project management, financial management, reporting, project monitoring.
• Experience in climate change adaptation, and livelihood improvement activities especially with the government institutions as well as grass root levels will be advantageous
• Knowledge in the field of Climate Change Adaptation, Rural Development, Natural Resources Management, Agriculture is an asset
• Past experience with UNDP or UN-related programmes will be of added advantage