Senior Officer Green Growth Policy And Government Liaison

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• Leading technical assistance in green growth and investment policy and proposal development while overseeing the project’s alignment with national goals and priorities, exploring potential areas of partnership, maintaining strategic relationship with government stakeholders to enhance project’s seamless execution and operational efficiency.
• Contributing technical inputs for partnership development for the GGGI country program across diverse portfolios at sub-national, national, and regional levels.
• Strategic communications, serving as crucial conduit between the Country Representative and Project Manager and diverse range of stakeholders, particularly government counterparts.

• Lead technical assistance in analyzing, developing, or implementing policy, programme, project pipelines, or guidance notes on green growth and green investment. Specific areas include a) green rehabilitation investment plan for scaling up Climate-Smart Agriculture adoption in Karakalpakstan, b) lending capacity development for green-finance private sector, c) Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) enhancement in the agroforestry sector, and d) other GGGI policy advisory and green investment projects.
• Engage government counterparts, experts, development partners, and Civil Society Organizations to translate GGGI strategy and expertise into innovative solutions and service offerings.
• Drawing on professional networks to acquire information and knowledge from a variety of sources which are often difficult to access, in support of delivery of a good quality output.
• Lead stakeholder intelligence gathering, mapping, and engagement and facilitate communications, consultation, partnership development with priority investors, government, and various stakeholders to draw on best practices.
• Maintain frequent formal and informal contact with counterparts in other organizations.
• Understands the project cycle and is able to provide managerial support within the Tashkent and Nukus Offices.
• Assesses delivery issues and builds partnership with national counterparts that build common understanding of policy priorities, areas of cooperation, and coordination for project activities.

• Lead the analysis of green growth and investment strategy and policies and development of program and project pipelines.
• Provide strategic and technical inputs to policy recommendations on Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) scaling up and NDC enhancement in the agroforestry sector and facilitate the stakeholder coordination within corresponding ministries.
• Facilitate key decision-making process through effective coordination with government counterpart, development partners, investors, and the Project Steering Committee members.
• Ensure trusted relationship building and management with government partners.
• Provide strategic policy and investment advisory on CSA model scaling up and replication, NDC enhancement, and other green growth and investment issues to Country Representative and Project Manager.
• Facilitate seamless project execution within the given timeframe by coordinating activities with key government stakeholders and project partners, including leading and organizing project activities such as consultations, validation meetings, Project Steering Committee, and field visits based on work plans and budgets.
• Capture lessons learned to support continuous improvement and facilitate information sharing to internal and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate with project staff to increase project effectiveness and efficiency.

• Postgraduate education (or equivalent professional experience) in the field of Agricultural/Environmental/Development Economics, Policy/Political Science, Sustainable development, Finance/Investment, Environmental/natural resources management, or other related subjects.
• At least 8 years of relevant postgraduate professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience in strategic policy and investment document development relevant to green growth.
• Strong cross-sectoral understanding of development challenges in Uzbekistan, and of Uzbekistan’s green growth policy and investment context. 
• Outstanding interpersonal, engagement, and consensus-building skills, ability to foster strong relationships with key government agencies, private sector and understand their needs.
• Experience in project cycle management, leadership of project teams.
• Experience in engaging with multiple stakeholders, including financial institutions, government institutions, NGOs, civil society, others.
• Excellent fluency in English, Russian and Uzbek Languages, both written and verbal required.

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