UNDP Recruits National Coordinator - Niger Delta Biodiversity Project

UNDP helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights, capacity development and the empowerment of women.We are recruiting to fill the below position:Job Title: National CoordinatorLocation: Port HarcourtPost Level: SB-5Duration of Initial Contract: Initial duration of one yearBackgroundIn May 2012, UNDP and the Government of Nigeria signed the Project Document for the recently developed ‘Niger Delta Biodiversity Project’. The document engages over a five year period $4,610,000, of which $1,000,000 are core funds from UNDP and $3,610,000 are from the Global Environment Facility. These funds leveraged an additional $9.6 million in commitments from government, Shell Nigeria and the UN through other projects.This project’s goal is to contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of globally significant biological diversity in the Niger Delta. The project objective is “to mainstream biodiversity management priorities into the Niger Delta oil and gas (O&G) sector development policies and operations.”The project’s three main outcomes designed to achieve this objective are: 1) Stakeholders strengthen the governance framework of law, policy, and institutional capacity to enable the mainstreaming of biodiversity management into the O&G sector in the Niger Delta; 2) Government, the O&G industry and local communities adopt and pilot new biodiversity action planning tools for proactive biodiversity mainstreaming in the Niger Delta; 3) Stakeholders support long-term biodiversity management and the use of these new tools in the Niger Delta by capitalizing the Niger Delta Biodiversity Trust with a collaborative engagement mechanism for local communities, O&G companies and Government at its core.Each of the three outcomes of this project reflects the project’s (and UNDP’s) focus on strengthening the governance of biodiversity in the Niger Delta.By mainstreaming biodiversity into the O&G sector of the Niger Delta, the project is strengthening the governance of those resources.The geographic focus of the project is on the four core Nigerian States within the Niger Delta (Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers States), which combined encompass an area of 46,420 km2 (the ‘indirect landscape mainstreaming target’). The physical footprint of the O&G company assets within this area is admitted by the industry to be 600 km2, which is considered the project’s initial ‘direct landscape mainstreaming target’The project will bring improved biodiversity management to these areas indirectly and directly, respectively, as measured by improved state of globally significant species and ecosystems, legal and policy frameworks that incorporate biodiversity objectives, and O&G companies adopting best practice for biodiversity actions. A key result will be the establishment of a long-term funding mechanism for mainstreaming biodiversity into the O&G sector, called the Niger Delta Biodiversity Trust.UNDP Nigeria is seeking a qualified National Coordinator to coordinate activities of the project in engaging stakeholders towards the established project objective.National Coordinator (NC), will be a locally recruited national selected based on an open competitive process. He/She will be responsible for the substantive management of the project, including the mobilization of all project inputs, supervision over project staff, consultants and sub-contractors. The NC will report to the Projects Chief

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