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Climate change-induced soil and water salinity are projected to adversely impact freshwater-dependent agricultural livelihoods (leading to loss of productivity or livelihoods) as well as the availability and quality of drinking water in vulnerable coastal communities. Furthermore, given women’s crucial role that play in water security and household level resilience, and their socio-economic marginalization, the climate change-induced threat to agricultural livelihoods and drinking water security of the affected coastal communities disproportionately affects women and girls. Therefore, the key objective of the project has been to support the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) in strengthening the adaptive capacities of coastal communities, especially women, to cope with the impacts of climate change-induced salinity on their livelihoods and water security. An estimated 719,229 people will be benefitted from the project interventions.
The project has been empowering target communities, especially women, as ‘change agents’ to plan, implement, and manage resilient livelihoods and drinking water solutions. The project is expected to enable those communities to address climate change risks on livelihood and drinking water security to promote synergistic co-benefits. GCF resources are invested in promoting a diversification from currently non-adaptive, freshwater-reliant livelihoods of small-scale farmers, fishers, and agro-laborer’s towards climate-resilient agricultural livelihoods. GoB co-financing is leveraged to support the adoption and scale of these alternative, climate-resilient agricultural livelihoods through strengthened value chains and market linkages for their long-term viability in the face of increasing salinity and extreme weather. Finally, through investments in institutional capacities, knowledge dissemination, and evidence-based learning, the project is enabling pathways for replication and scale of project impact to secure livelihoods and drinking water across the vulnerable districts of the southwest coast of Bangladesh.
Under direct supervision and overall guidance of the Project Coordination Specialist, the Knowledge Management Analyst will be working to support the adaptive livelihood interventions and issues for the projects.
The Knowledge Management Analyst/Officer will report to the Project Coordination Specialist, “Enhancing adaptive capacities of coastal communities, especially women, to cope with climate change induced salinity” Project.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Overall responsibility of Knowledge Management of Climate Change Adaptation in the project.
- Introduce a culture of innovation, innovation implementation and learning process within project and institutional ecosystems UNDP works with (other UNDP and GoB efforts including NAP, CFF, CPF for GCF, GCF Readiness, Macro-economic Framework, Adaptation Tracking and Measuring).
- Develop conceptual framework of knowledge systematics within climate change adaptation actions using ICT and GIS based platforms.
- Develop, maintain, and upgrade the Information and Knowledge Management for Climate Change Adaptation.
- Work proactively with project teams to identify opportunities for production, processing, capturing and sharing knowledge, and disseminating information about major progress and results and manage knowledge sharing events, scope and manage the successful execution of knowledge sharing events including monthly seminars/webinars, workshops, conferences, and peer learning sessions.
- Develop and implement a national strategy for adaptation knowledge management and support the preparation and implementation of knowledge management (KM) portal for “Gender and Climate Change in Bangladesh.
- Prepare a comprehensive knowledge management and communication strategy for the project and facilitate learning amongst project components, partners and stakeholders through reviews of progress against benchmarks, collecting lessons learnt and best practices and facilitating dissemination of the same.
- The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Competencies:
Core competencies;
- Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline.
- Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements.
- Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback.
- Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible.
- Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident.
- Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships.
- Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination.
Cross- Functional and Technical competencies:
Business Direction & Strategy
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop effective strategies and prioritized plans in line with UNDP’s objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, potential risks and opportunities; linking the vision to reality on the ground, and creating tangible solutions; Ability to leverage learning from a variety of sources to anticipate and respond to future trends; to demonstrate foresight in order to model what future developments and possible ways forward look like for UNDP.
Business Development
- Human-centered Design: Ability to develop solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process
Business Management
- Communication: Ability to communicate in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience; Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media, and other appropriate channels
Partnership management
- Relationship management: Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust and mutual understanding.
General (across the functions)
- Event planning and execution: Ability to plan, manage and execute of public and private events to ensure that they support and amplify individual communications and advocacy initiatives, as well as UNDP’s overall brand and mandate.
Digital & Innovation
- Co-creation: Ability to design and facilitate a process that enables a diverse group of stakeholders to solve a common problem, develop a practice, or create knowledge together.
2030 Agenda: Peace
- Rule of Law, Security and Human Rights Impact: assessment services to countries on stigma, discrimination, gender and human rights concerns / inclusive and rights-based approach to basic services and livelihoods
Required Skills and Experience:
Education:
- Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Environmental Science/ Data Science/ Development Studies / Sociology / Anthropology / Statistics / Economics / Public Administration / Psychology or another relevant field. Or
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Experience:
- Minimum 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of working experience in research, knowledge management, organizational learning and knowledge portal management.
- Demonstrated understanding of ICT and GIS based knowledge management principles and capacity to deliver knowledge management and/or organizational learning activities based on ICT and GIS platforms (preferably open sources) is required.
- Experience in information systems design and implementation as well as design and facilitation of learning events is an asset.
- Demonstrated interest in and capacity to deliver online based knowledge management and/or organizational learning programs is desirable.
- Ability to link content development and engagement strategies that facilitate timely, useful delivery of information through project learning platforms and activities is an asset.
- Excellent facilitation, program/activity management, and written and oral communication skills is desirable.
- Possess a strong background and working experience in tools development and toolkit production, learning product design (i.e., manuals, guidebooks, toolkits, brochures, etc.) is an asset.
- Experience in GIS and Remote sensing tools and technologies, Opensource technology and open access knowledge portals Graphic designing skill is desirable.
- Experience in Large database handling and management, Visualization tools and technologies is an asset.
- Experience in application development background technologies info-graphics development, MS Power point and other slide development applications, MS one notes is an asset.
- Proven experience in Report writing is desirable.
Required Language:
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