Technical Officer - Environmental - Retainer

Application period 30-Jan-2024 to 12-Feb-2024

Functional Responsibilities:

The position of Technical Analyst - Environmental [Biodiversity & Capacity Building] – Nature for Development supports the GBF EAS Project. It supports developing, middle income, and small island nations in their commitments to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), including early action on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), and National Reporting. Working in collaboration with UN Environment (UNEP), the CBD Secretariat, and the GEF Secretariat, this project provides technical and financial support to GEF-eligible Parties to CBD. Depending on the policy cycle, the type of technical support and the amount of financial support delivered to Parties may vary.

CBD Parties are currently being mobilized to take early action on the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)

by focusing on four components: national biodiversity planning and alignment, policy frameworks, monitoring and reporting frameworks, and biodiversity finance. These components, among others that may emerge, are aimed at ensuring that CBD Parties have the technical and financial support they require to work towards a robust, fully resourced, NBSAP, including a strong monitoring system, that is fully aligned with the GBF.

Financial and technical support is provided through two pathways: first, grants made to Parties to undertake national actions, and second, a global coordination grant that will make it possible to provide technical services to ensure national actions are effective, efficient, inclusive, and of the highest technical standards. The project’s Technical Support Unit (TSU) is being administered in coordination with SCBD and UNEP across 140. The project is additionally responsible for administrating national work for the 69 countries that receive GEF funding, which are primarily located in Latin America and Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and Asia.

Responsibilities include supporting the Senior Project Manager and team to:

Project coordination and implementation

• Support the dissemination of technical guidance and documents produced jointly with partners
• Support the reporting process on both project’s pathways, including for the preparation of the PIR, Terminal Evaluations, project board meetings, and other requested documents.
• Track the project’s implementation and update daily tracking tools
• Collect data from the different project’s surveys, highlighting gaps and difficulties encountered by the countries, and suggest solution accordingly.
• Support communication with key project partners, such as the CBD Secretariat, UNEP, UNEP-WCMC, and non-state actors.
• Assist in tracking of national progress to achieve project components
• Take notes during key meetings, and disseminate them afterward to key partners
• Liaise, on a daily basis, with participating countries to provide technical support, with a priority given to French and English speaking countries
  
  

Technical services

• Assist the development of technical guidance documents, tools, and training biodiversity and policy.
• Assist the development of reports and policy recommendations related to the targets in the emerging post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
• Support literature reviews, knowledge management, compilation of information, and gathering of data on topics pertinent to the project.