Project Clerk

Office/Unit/Project Description 

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“Biodiversity, and the benefits it provides, is fundamental to human well-being and a healthy planet. Despite ongoing efforts, biodiversity is deteriorating worldwide, and this decline is projected to continue or worsen under business-as-usual scenarios”. Responding to this existential need for stepping up biodiversity conservation efforts, at the High-Level Segment of part one of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP- 15) in October 2021, Parties to the Convention adopted the Kunming Declaration, where they committed to develop, adopt and implement an effective post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)  that would put biodiversity on a path to recovery by 2030 at the latest, towards the full realization of the 2050 Vision of “Living in Harmony with Nature.” Critically, the framework would also include provision of the necessary means of implementation, in line with the Convention and its two protocols, as well as appropriate mechanisms for monitoring, reporting and review.

The objective of this global project is to fast-track readiness and early actions to implement the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) by providing financial and technical support to GEF-eligible Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in their work to align their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) including national biodiversity targets, monitoring, policy, and finance frameworks with the Global Biodiversity Framework of the CBD. Financial and technical support is provided through two pathways: first, grants made to Parties to undertake early actions at the national level, and second, a global technical support grant that will make it possible to provide technical guidance to Parties to ensure these early actions are effective, efficient, inclusive, and of the highest technical standards. Each of the participating countries, based on their current planning status, will use the grant to undertake activities from the following menu: 

a) Rapid review of NBSAP for alignment with the post-2020 GBF; 

b) assessment of monitoring systems; 

c) policy and institutional alignment and review of policies for coherence with the GBF; and 

d) biodiversity finance activities. 

The rapid review of the NBSAP and national targets will focus on identifying gaps required to align the national targets, goals, objectives and action plans within the existing NBSAP to the new GBF. The assessment of monitoring systems will focus on identifying gaps and promoting alignment between the NBSAP-related monitoring system and the GBF. The policy and institutional review will focus on identifying policy gaps and inconsistencies within the existing NBSAP and the GBF. Further, the biodiversity finance activities will focus on preparedness for developing and/or implementing a finance plan for implementing a GBF-aligned NBSAP.

Scope of Work

1.Support the project team to ensure effective project planning and implementation focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Compiles, summarizes, and presents basic information/data on specific project and related topics or issues.
• Implement project standard operating procedures in line with the government and UNDP’s regulations;

2. Provides administrative support to the Project Management Unit focusing on achievement of the following results

• Provision of general office assistance such as response to simple information requests and inquiries; reviews, logs and routes incoming correspondence; 
• Provision of clerical admininstrative work  to process and follow-up on administrative actions, e.g.payment, procurement,recruitment, travel, absence management 
• Support in updating database of counterparts  and administrative support for data collection for gender mainstreaming at project level. 
• Support the administration related with preparation of work plans, report from various meeting .

3.Support knowledge building and knowledge sharing focusing on achievement of the following results

• Participation in the trainings for the operations/ projects staff.
• Contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice 
• Ensure active participations for learning and knowledge sharing in gender analysis and gender mainstreaming  

4.The incumbent of the position should avoid any kind of discriminatory behavior including gender discrimination and ensure that 

• Human rights and gender equality is prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions.
• Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with “Social and Environmental Standards of UNDP”.
• Any kind of diversities based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, gender are respected within all implementations including data production.
• Differentiated needs of women and men are considered.
• Inclusive approach is reflected within all actions and implementations, in that sense an enabling and accessible setup in various senses such as disability gender language barrier is created.
• Necessary arrangements to provide gender parity within all committees, meetings, trainings etc. introduced.

Institutional Arrangement

The Project  Clerk  will work under the overall guidance of Programme Analyst Nature, Climate, and Energy of the Environment Unit and will work closely with Budget Management Associate of Environment Unit and procurement team to support the administrative process of the project and relevant initiatives. 

Competencies