Duties and Responsibilities
The consultant will undertake the following
duties:
- Lead the preparation of the CEO endorsement document and its
attachments.
- Coordinate the development and implementation of the
Stakeholder Engagement Plan.
- Be responsible for the design of all substantive elements of
the CEO endorsement document and its annexes, including the log-frame,
budget, indicators, baseline scenario, alternative scenario, stakeholders,
risks, consistency with national priorities, institutional arrangements,
gender action plan, knowledge management, theory of change (ToC), and
monitoring and evaluation.
- Prepare an outline of the strategy and methodology to develop
such elements, including a provisional timetable.
- Ensure that the substantive elements are aligned with national
strategy and planning documents though the consultation of national
expert.
- Ensure that the latest templates from GEF and UNEP are used in
the preparation of the CEO endorsement document and associated annexes. •
Inform UNEP on the status of work and highlight, in a timely manner, risks
related to the quality of the information received and the fulfillment of
the project’s development schedule.
- Support the national consultant in organizing and undertaking
the stakeholder consultation workshop (online) to consult with the
relevant national counterparts, discuss the baseline situation, map the
gaps and barriers, collect relevant country data, agree upon a project
intervention logic (log frame and Annex A results framework) and discuss
initial institutional arrangements for execution.
- Undertake a gender analysis, ensure project deliverables are
gender sensitive and prepare a gender action plan.
- Prepare a presentation for internal discussion to UNEP
management describing national circumstances and context, baseline,
barriers, proposed intervention, and indicators.
- Support the national consultant in organizing and undertaking
the stakeholder validation workshop (online) to validate the CEO
Endorsement document with national stakeholders.
- Prepare a final overall stakeholder consultation report. The
GEF requires that a report is prepared and submitted on stakeholder
consultations undertaken during the PPG.
- Prepare a final and complete version of the CEO Endorsement
Document and annexes for UNEP internal review and submission to GEF Sec.
- Prepare the submission package of the CEO endorsement document
and associated annexes to the UNEP Project Review Committee (PRC) and
draft the responses to the Committee’s reviews.
- Prepare the submission package of the CEO endorsement document
and associated annexes to the GEF secretariat and draft responses to
Secretariat reviews.
Qualifications/Special Skills
- An advanced university degree in economics, environmental
sciences, management, or a related discipline is required;
- A first level degree with additional two years of qualifying
experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree;
- A minimum of two years of experience in drafting project
proposals in the field of climate change, environment or development is
required;
- Experience working with GEF or UNEP projects is desirable;
- Experience in working for multilateral or bilateral funding
entities in the field of climate change, environment or development is
desirable;
- Experience working on projects in Georgia is desirable.
Deadline : Jul
7, 2024
How To Apply
