UNDP (Paid Internship) National Coordinator at Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe.

The National Coordinator Internship will also be responsible for providing technical, policy, and programming implementation support and oversight, and knowledge and capacity development services for the effective deployment of Local programmatic activities, for providing operational support to the LoCAL Facility, and is also expected to contribute to Local’s resource mobilization activities on an ongoing basis.

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Scope of Work for National Coordinator Internship

Programme management and implementation (30%)

• Oversee the day-to-day implementation of selected LoCAL activities, with a focus on climate change and environmental sustainability, ensuring UNCDF/LoCAL standards are applied consistently;
• Lead delivery and achievement of objectives by working with and supporting implementing partners’ project related activities;
• Ensure the integrity of LoCAL Annual Work Plan, budget, financial resources, review of budget requirements, delivery and the consistent application or rules and regulations;
• Contribute to the management of the risk log of the project;
• Ensuring the timely and effective management of the activities as scheduled.

Outreach, partnership building and resource mobilization (25%)

• Develop strategies to mobilize additional resources based on programme requirements and new opportunities.
• Build effective and efficient partnerships at the operational level with national counterparts and financial and technical partners;
• Organize consultative meetings, seminars and workshops to drive analytical and policy work of the Programme.

Policy, regulatory and technical advice to government counterparts and key stakeholders (25%) 

• Provide technical advice and capacity building support for the adequate integration and costing of environment and climate considerations in the investments delivered in the context of the Programme;
• Lead the technical dialogue and provision of policy and technical advisory services to national and local government counterparts in relation to climate change information and assessments, climate mainstreaming, climate finance and (direct) access to international climate finance

Coordination with government counterparts, UN system and development partners (10%)

• Serve as the UNCDF focal point in working groups and steering committees on the issue of environment and climate change and related sectors and provide inputs for conducive policy and regulatory environment;
• Manage UNCDF’s commitments within the UNDAF Results Matrix, ensures effective application of results -based management tools, monitors initiative work plans, programme effectiveness and achievement of results.

Knowledge management and communication (10%)

• Identify key knowledge constraints and organize learning, knowledge exchange, training, workshops, etc. to build the awareness and capacities on relevant themes (i.e. climate change, local climate risk assessments, environmental sustainability, mainstreaming, in support of women and youth employment, etc.);
• Contribute to the implementation of the Communication and Visibility Plan of the Programme, in collaboration with Programme team, partners and technical consultants;
• Identify, collect and disseminate best practices and lesson learned from the Programme in areas of specialty;
• Manage the process of convening national and regional stakeholders to share lessons learned on selected themes.

Institutional Arrangement

The National Coordinator reports to the LoCAL Global Programme Manager, P-5, based in Kampala, Uganda and works in close collaboration with other LTF and LoCAL colleagues in the regional office/HQ based and country and across the region. This position will be based in Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe.

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Minimum Qualifications of the Successful NPSA

Min. Education requirements:

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in environmental science and management, climate science, geographic studies, international development, economics, statistics, or a related field.
• A first level university degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) in environmental science and management, climate science, geographic studies, international development, economics, statistics, or a related field with additional 2 years of work experience will be considered in lieu of advanced university degree.

Min. years of relevant work experience:

• A minimum of five (5) years (with Master’s degree) or (7) years (with Bachelor’s degre) of experience in implementing/coordinating development projects in the fields of climate change and/or environmental sustainability and decentralization issues is required.

Required  skills for National Coordinator Internship 

• Experience of the system of local governments in Sao Tome and Principe and its framework;
• Experience of work with different tiers of government, central government institutions/ministries, and local governments, local stakeholders, local communities.
• Experience of climate change issues and its potential impacts on local economic development particularly for the most vulnerable is required
• Experience in addressing gender equality as project objective and/or cross-cutting issue would be an asset;
• Strong networking capabilities and ability to associate him/herself with a range of actors (inter alia central and subnational governments; CSOs, NGOs, policy makers; national statistics office and donors, and local communities) with a view to building relations and facilitating links.

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Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section:

• Experience in decentralization and local government, particularly in Sao Tome and Principe is highly desirable
• Managerial /professional level work experience working on policy, regulatory and technical advisory services with national and subnational stakeholders is highly desirable;
• Relevant work experience related to performance-based grants and/or similar instruments like budget support and/or local economic development is desirable
• Experience of current developments in local economic development for the most vulnerable (women and youth) is desired;
• Experience with a UN organization/agency is desirable;
• Knowledge or experience in context developing solution on climate action on how to tackle climate change adaptation and resilience in Sao Tome and Principe is highly desirable
• Knowledge or experience in context developing solution on climate action on how to tackle climate change adaptation and resilience in Sao Tome and Principe is highly desirable
• Experience with UN Procurement Processes is desired, but not a requirement.

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Required Language(s):

• Fluency in Portuguese and local language is required
• Knowledge of English would be an asset.